Can Combination Therapy of Conventional and Oriental Medicine Improve Poststroke Aphasia? Comparative, Observational, Pragmatic Study

Table 6

Comparison of the AQ Score improvements between the COT and OLT groups: distribution of severity.

Group	Aphasia severity	COT group (𝑛=47)	OLT group (𝑛=30)	𝑃 value
Before treatment (%)	Severe	31 (66)	23 (76.7)	0.445
	Nonsevere	16 (34)	7 (23.3)
After treatment (%)	Severe	18 (38.3)	17 (56.7)	0.159
	Non-severe	29 (61.7)	13 (43.3)

COT group: group that received language therapy with oriental medicine therapy.
OLT group: group that received language therapy only.
𝑃 value was obtained by Fisher’s exact test for evaluating significance of distribution of severe aphasia in each point (before treatment and after treatment).