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Exploring the clinical efficacy and brain network effects of acupuncture in treating post-stroke cognitive impairment based on functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Exploring the clinical efficacy and brain network effects of acupuncture in treating post-stroke cognitive impairment based on functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ITMCTR
Registry ID
ITMCTR2025001676
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2025-09-04
Start date
2025-04-10
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-09-15

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Conditions

Post-stroke cognitive impairment

Interventions

Observation Group and Acupuncture Group:acupuncture
Acupuncture Group:acupuncture

Sponsors

Shiyan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
45 Years to 75 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1.45 years old = age = 75 years old; 2.First stroke 3-12 months after stroke (CT/MRI confirmed); 3.Cognitive impairment after the stroke event; 18 = MoCA score <26; 4.Stroke site mainly focuses on the frontal/parietal/temporal cortex (NIR overlay) subcortical not multiple stroke sites; 5. Educated for more than 6 years; 6. Cognitive ability to cooperate with (6) Cognitive ability to cooperate with simple instructions without obvious hearing and understanding difficulties; 7. Patients who are right-handed and can remain sitting or standing for 20 minutes and cooperate with the NIR examination; 8.Patients who have not received formal Chinese medicine rehabilitation before the clinical trial; 9.Patients who have signed the informed consent form by themselves or on behalf of a member of the patient's immediate family.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1.Non-first stroke; 2.Confusion speech and visual and hearing impairment and other reasons for not being able to cooperate to complete the assessment; 3.Presence of multiple sclerosis brain tumors and other nature of brain diseases; 4 Presence of Alzheimer's disease dementia with Lewy bodies and other causes of cognitive disorders; 5.Previous history of epilepsy epileptic seizures and febrile convulsions and family history of epilepsy; 6.Intracranial implantation of metal electronic devices the Those with cranial defects and metal cranial repairs. 7.Patients with severe abnormalities of coagulation function high risk of bleeding and patients with contraindications to needling such as infected lesions at the site of application.1.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
MMSE Scale;MoCA Scale;fNIRS;

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
ADL Scale;

Countries

Shiyan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Contacts

Public ContactWang Tingting

Hubei University of Chinese Medicine

wangtingting0211@163.com13636174561

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ITMCTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026