Post-stroke Aphasia
Conditions
Interventions
Treatment Group:"Yi Sui Xing Shen" acupuncture
Sponsors
Guang’anmen Hospital, Chinese academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
35 Years to 80 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Aged from 35 to 80 years; native Chinese speaker; right-handed; willing to participate this research and sign informed consent. 2. Diagnosed as ischemic stroke; left hemisphere lesion; 14 days to 6 months after stroke onset. 3. Diagnosed as non-fluent aphasia by Western Aphasia Battery (WAB); Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE) severity rating scale = 2. 4. Primary school and above education.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Existence of contraindication of MRI. 2. Serious dysarthria, auditory impairment, visual impairment, or cognition impairment that do not allow the patients to cooperate with scale assessment. 3. Language impairment due to non-stroke diseases. 4. Serious heart, lung, liver, and kidney dysfunctions, or serious chronic diseases that researchers consider not suitable for the study; 5. Patients who are accepting other treatment specific for aphasia and are not able to stop the therapy.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) Aphasia Quotient (AQ); | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| language function;cognitive ability;neurological function;quality of life;emotion state;traditional Chinese medical syndrome;Magnetic Resonance Imaging; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactBinlong Zhang
Guang’anmen Hospital, Chinese academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed