The Therapeutic Effect of Electroacupuncture Therapy for Ischemic Stroke

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Electroacupuncture could promote neuronal regeneration, increase motor cortical excitability, improve cerebral angiogenesis, reduce motor dysfunction, decrease brain edema, and alleviate the impairment of blood-brain barrier according to the results of animal experiments. Meanwhile, electroacupuncture could improve a series of dysfunctions following stroke, including constipation, urinary function, pain, cognition and memory impairment, speech apraxia, swallowing disability, limb paralysis, spasticity, and psychological illness according to the results of clinical trial.