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Electro-acupuncture improves cognitive recovery after brain injury
Electro-acupuncture (EA) treatment can improve cognitive recovery for patients with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), possibly by improving cerebral hypoxia and alleviating hypoxic brain injury. To investigate this, Chinese clinicians randomly assigned 83 patients with initial Glasgow Coma Scale scores higher than 12 points to either an EA or control group. In addition to conventional treatment, patients in the EA group received daily 30-minute EA treatment (2/100 Hz) at Neiguan P-6 and Shuigou DU-26 for two weeks. The results showed that patients in the EA group had significantly better improvements in cognitive scores and levels of cerebral oxygen metabolism markers compared to the control group, both immediately after the two-week treatment period and after eight weeks of no-treatment follow-up.
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