Description for medicine or protocol of treatment in detail:
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Therapeutic method:
Grouping method:
All cases will be divided into Observation group and control group according to the principle of semi random and voluntary of children's families.
Treatment of control group:
The traditional rehabilitation methods such as Bobath, occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) are selectively applied, and the experienced rehabilitation therapist formulates an individualized rehabilitation plan according to the patient's age, physical quality and motor function. Once a day, five times a week for three consecutive months.
Treatment of observation group:
The observation group are treated with acupuncture and tuina combined with traditional rehabilitation therapy.The traditional rehabilitation methods for observation group are same as the control group(Based on the International Chinese Medicine Clinical Guidelines for Pediatric Cerebral Palsy issued by the World Federation of Chinese Medicine)..
Acupuncture treatment:
Main points of scalp acupuncture: motor area, foot movement sensation area and balance area.
Main points of body acupuncture: Ganshu(BL18), Pishu(BL20), Taichong(LR3), Taibai(SP3), Yanglingquan(GB34) and Sanyinjiao(SP6)
Acupuncture methods: For scalp acupuncture, strong stimulation is used, catharsis is used at Taichong(LR3) and even reinforcing-reducing method are used at other points.
Acupuncture needles with a diameter of 0.35mm and a length of 25mm shall be selected. The needles shall be retained for 30 minutes, and hand-manipulating of needle shall be once every 15 minutes.
Tuina treatment:
Manipulation includes tuina along meridians, acupoint pressure, abnormal local muscle tuina, abnormal posture correction. The principle of tuina is light and orderly, and the principle of manipulation is flexible and rigid.
Tuina along meridians: Upper limbs along the hand three yin meridians, hand three yang meridians sequence, lower limbs along the foot three yang meridians, foot three yin meridians sequence, using push method, roll method and other composite techniques.
Acupoint pressure: Compound techniques such as point, kneading and pressing were applied to the main acupoints of each meridian (Referring to acupuncture).
Abnormal local muscle tuina: Soothing techniques such as kneading and holding.
Posture correction: The pulling method, shaking method and stretching method are used for the abnormal postures of the spine and limbs,
Operation in accordance with upper limbs, lower limbs, each limb four operations in order. Once a day, 20-30 minutes each time. Tuina mostly adopts relaxation manipulation.
Treatment duration:
Treatments will be conducted every day with the interval of 2 days every week during the weekend. A course of treatment duration is four weeks.
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Exclusion criteria:
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Exclusion criteria
1) Those who do not meet the above diagnostic criteria.
2) Patients with other serious organic diseases of heart, liver, kidney and other important organs.
3) Exclude leukodystrophy, infantile spinal muscular atrophy, spinocerebellar ataxia syndrome, and hereditary Metabolic diseases such as phenylketonuria, congenital cretinism, congenital hydrocephalus.
4) Those who interrupt treatment in the medium term for non-curative effect reasons.
5) Do not cooperate with the treatment observer.
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