Traditional Chinese Medicine comprehensive therapy for the improvement of motor function in spinal cord injury patients

作     者：Wang Yuanhui Zhang Lei Pan Guodong Liu Jing Zhang Hongrui Song Xu Wang Qiang 

作者机构：Clinical Medical School Jining Medical University Department of Rehabilitation Medicine the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University Department of Rehabilitation Medicine the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University 

出 版 物：《Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine》 (中医杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第36卷第5期

页      面：618-624页

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学科分类：1006[医学-中西医结合] 100507[医学-中医外科学] 1005[医学-中医学] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Supported by Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Shandong Province:Research on the Program of Traditional Chinese Medicine Comprehensive Therapy in Treating Spinal Cord Injury on Motor Function(No.2013-234) Jining Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Development Foundation:the Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine Comprehensive Therapy in Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury(No.LC2012012) 

主　　题：Spinal cord injuries Medicine Chinese traditional Treatment outcome 

摘      要：OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of early comprehensive therapy of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) on motor function of in patients with spinal cord ***: Fifty-one standard spinal cord injury patients with paraplegia were randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. The experimental group received TCM comprehensive therapy, and the control group received modern Western Medicine(WM) treatment for 4 weeks. The motor score(MS), Barthel Index(BI) and American Spinal Injury Association(ASIA) grading were measured in both groups before and after ***: After treatment, the MS and BI scores of the TCM comprehensive therapy group improved significantly(P 0.05). The differences between the experimental and control groups after treatment were not significant(P 0.05).CONCLUSION: Early TCM comprehensive therapy is an effective method for improving motor function in patients with spinal cord injury.