Systematic Review of Adverse Effects: A Further Step towards Modernization of Acupuncture in China

Table 3

Peripheral nerve injury.

Author/Year (reference)	Cases	Age/Sex	Disease treated	Punctured site	Complication	Practitioner	Follow-up
Tang and Fang, 1986 [15]	1	Not specified	Facial paralysis	Not specified	Aggravated facial paralysis	Not specified	Recovered
Nie and Zhou, 1990 [16]	1	26/M	Left eye pain	SJ17	Cardiac arrest	Acupuncturist	Recovered (1 min)
Yan, 1994 [17]	1	57/M	Cervical dislocation	Bitong point	Phrenic nerve injury	Acupuncturist	Recovered (1 wk)
Yang and Wang, 1996 [18]	1	62/M	Lateral rectus paralysis	Ex-HN07	Optic atrophy	Acupuncturist	Blind
Xu and Liu, 1997 [19]	1	48/M	Tinnitus and hearing loss	ST1, ST2, BL2, LI20, SJ21, SI19	Oculomotorius injury	Not specified	Recovered (17 d)
Huang and Wei, 1997 [20]	1	53/F	Trigeminal nerve pain	Around the mandible	Trigeminal nerve injury	Acupuncturist in the stomatological hospital	Improved (3 mo)
Wang, 1999 [10]	1	54/F	Lumbago	GB30	Sciatic nerve injury	Private practitioner	Unrecovered
Ruan et al., 2009 [21]	1	67/F	Lumbago	GB34	Peroneus nerve injury	Not specified	Recovered (3 wk)