Neuropathic Pain and Spasticity Response to Traditional Acupuncture after Spinal Cord Injury

Introduction: One of the most relevant disabilities is caused by spinal cord injury (SCI). Typical causes damage are trauma, disease, or congenital disorders. Tetraplegia a paralysis results in partial total loss use all limbs and torso; paraplegia similar but does not affect arms. Pain spasticity common sequelae SCI [1]. Both pain can have late onset develop slowly over time after SCI, once developed, they often become chronic. In this paper we provided to assess effectiveness acupuncture for treating summarize potential mechanisms therapy. Method: We considered 30 patients with diagnosis tetra complicated neuropathic spasticity. Neurologist trained medical conducted therapeutic treatments. A specific set points was used sessions. Participants were treated 8 sessions 4 week’s period. evaluated Numeric Raiting Scale (VAS) (2) Modified Ashworth [3] at beginning first, fourth an eighth treatment session. Results: 28 (93%) showed improvement intensity two weeks treatment. The effect continued until week However, 15 (53,5%) reported increase 2 months Conclusions: Acupuncture using defined acupoint reduced intentensity SCI.