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Neuro-Acupuncture Helps Restore Brain Function Following Stroke

Every year in Canada over 100,000 people have a stroke. Disability caused by a stroke can have a serious and lasting effect on a person's life.

Neuro-acupuncture was developed in the 1970's by neurosurgeon Dr. Jiao Shun Fa and has been used extensively since then. Although we now use neuro-acupuncture to treat many neurological conditions, it was initially created as a treatment for stroke.  

How Does Neuro-Acupuncture Help My Stroke Recovery?

Neuro-acupuncture helps to restore brain function after a stroke by improving nerve conduction and connectivity between brain regions. With advanced stroke research and brain imaging technology, we are continuing to understand how the brain can adapt after a stroke.

Research in neuroplasticity suggests that brain cells are highly adaptable and can undergo changes in function and even take over functions of nearby cells that have been damaged by a stroke. Because of this innate ability of your nervous system, neuro-acupuncture treatment stimulates blood flow and healing in the damaged areas and encourages unaffected brain cells to compensate for the loss of function in the damaged regions.

What Can I Expect?

Neuro-acupuncture has been found to be effective in treating symptoms of a stroke including weakness and paralysis, abnormal sensation, and aphasia.

Receiving neuro-acupuncture treatment soon after your stroke leads to a better prognosis. It is possible to experience improvement after the first treatment, although, often a series of treatments is required for the full benefit. People who are years into their recovery can still benefit from neuro-acupuncture treatment although their symptoms may take longer to respond.

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What Does The Research Say?

"This review comprehensively summarizes literature from the last 25 years, showing that acupuncture can exert strong beneficial effect on PSCI [Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment]. The mechanisms of acupuncture on PSCI involves anti-neuronal apoptosis, promoting synaptic plasticity, alleviating central and peripheral inflammatory reactions, and regulating brain energy metabolism disorders (including improving cerebral blood flow, glucose utilization and mitochondrial structure and function, etc.), etc. The effects and mechanisms of acupuncture on PSCI reviewed in this study provides scientific and reliable evidence for acupuncture application for PSCI."
Li N, Wang H, Liu H, Zhu L, Lyu Z, Qiu J, Zhao T, Ren H, Huang L, Chen S, Hu X, Zhou L. The effects and mechanisms of acupuncture for post-stroke cognitive impairment: progress and prospects. Front Neurosci. 2023 Jun 15;17:1211044. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1211044. PMID: 37397457; PMCID: PMC10309044.

"Scalp acupuncture has the function of bidirectional regulation, which makes the unbalanced abnormal brain function state restore balance."
Lin D, Gao J, Lu M, Han X, Tan Z, Zou Y, Cui F. Scalp acupuncture regulates functional connectivity of cerebral hemispheres in patients with hemiplegia after stroke. Front Neurol. 2023 May 25;14:1083066. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1083066. PMID: 37305743; PMCID: PMC10248137.