Acupuncture's Effects in Treating the Sequelae of Acute and Chronic Spinal Cord Injuries: A Review of Allopathic and Traditional Chinese Medicine Literature

Table 1

Prior studies of acupuncture's use in treating SCI sequelae.

Study	Number of patients	Randomized?	Acupuncture intervention	Control intervention	Standardized acupuncture?	Jadad score
All SCI problems
Wong et al. [7]	100	Yes	75 Hz surface EA at SI-3 and BL-62 plus auricular acupoints plus usual care	Usual SCI rehabilitation care	Yes	2
Wang [11]	Not given	No	Wide variety	Not applicable	No	0, retrospective experience
Gao et al. [12]	261	No	Wide variety	Not applicable	No	0, retrospective experience
SCI bladder problems
Cheng et al. [13]	60	Yes	EA 20–30 Hz at CV-3, CV-4, and bilateral BL-32 plus usual care	Usual care	Yes	2
Honjo et al. [14]	13	No	A manual stimulation at BL-33	Not applicable	Yes	1, no dropouts
Zhou et al. [15]	84	Yes	EA at Baliao and BL-35	EA at “acupoints routinely selected"	Yes	Insufficient information
Pain problems
Nayak et al. [16]	20	No	A, no stimulation	Not applicable	No, some points standardized	1, efficacy study with 2 dropouts
Rapson [17]	36	No	EA	Not applicable	Yes	0, retrospective experience
Dyson-Hudson et al. [18]	17	Yes	A, manual stimulation	Sham superficial acupuncture	No, but selected from a group of points	5
Dyreflexia problems
Averill et al. [19]	15	No	A, no stimulation	Not applicable	Yes, “specific points above and below the lesion"	1, “acupuncture analgesia study" no dropouts

Acupuncture (A) or electroacupuncture (EA).