Current Status of Research on the Treatment of Stroke with Wrist Ankle Acupuncture

Stroke" is a major disease with high incidence rate, disability and mortality.Wrist ankle acupuncture is gradually used to treat stroke and stroke sequelae due to its small pain, obvious curative effect, and convenient operation.This article summarizes, sorts out, and analyzes the literature of the past five years, focusing on the characteristics of the efficacy of wrist ankle acupuncture in the treatment of stroke, and explores the feasibility of wrist ankle acupuncture in the treatment of stroke from the perspective of improving movement, pain, sensory impairment, shoulder hand syndrome, and other important aspects after stroke, in order to provide more research ideas and treatment strategies for the further application of wrist ankle acupuncture in the treatment of acute stroke."Stroke" (hereinafter referred to as "stroke"), referred to as "stroke" in traditional Chinese medicine, is an acute cerebrovascular disease that causes brain tissue damage due to sudden rupture of brain blood vessels or blockage of blood vessels that prevents blood from flowing into the brain.It includes ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke, with the incidence of ischemic stroke accounting for 69.6% to 70.8% of all strokes.[1,2].Surviving patients after stroke often show limb spasticity and sensory disorders, most of which are accompanied by cognitive, speech, swallowing, defecation and other disorders.Stroke, with its high incidence rate, high disability rate, and younger incidence trend, seriously threatens people's healthy life.Western medicine currently focuses on thrombolysis, intracranial pressure reduction, and early symptomatic support treatment.Early intervention with acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine is beneficial to the patient's further recovery [3].In clinical practice, wrist-ankle acupuncture has been gradually applied to the rehabilitation treatment of stroke due to its unique advantages of easy manipulation, light pain, fast