Acupuncture for Migraine: A Systematic Review

Oculomotor palsy is a mononeuropathy, which causes sudden unilateral ptosis and double vision. It often affects older people who have concurrent diabetes and/or hypertension. Oculomotor palsy generally resolves over three to four months as regeneration of affected nerve fibres. there is no effective biomedical treatment. In this report, I present a 76-yearold man who experienced left-sided oculomotor-nerve palsy. biomedical intervention had been unsuccessful and electroacupuncture led to complete symptom relief after four weeks of treatment. K e y w O r d s electroacupuncture, oculomotor-nerve palsy, case report. I describe in this case report an elderly patient’s acquired unilateral oculomotor palsy that improved during electroacupuncture after conventional medicine treatments were unsuccessful.