Therapeutic observation on acupoint injection for post-stroke deglutition disorder

Objective To observe the clinical effect of acupoint injection in treating post-stroke deglutition disorder. Methods Eighty patients with post-stroke deglutition disorder were randomized into a treatment group and a control group, 40 in each. The treatment group received acupoint injection in addition to routine Western medication, and the control group received the routine Western medication only. The treatment results in the two groups were compared and analyzed. Result After treatment, the patients in the two groups had improvements in the scores of symptoms and signs. In comparison of water drinking test, the result in the treatment group was superior to that in the control group ( P