TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pang, Bo
AU  - Zhang, Qi
AU  - Cheng, Guang-Yu
AU  - Cheng, Wei-Ping
AU  - Litscher, Daniela
AU  - Wang, Lu
AU  - Sheng, Zemin
AU  - Gaischek, Ingrid
AU  - Sun, Zhong-Ren
AU  - Litscher, Gerhard
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016/08/23
TI  - Effects of Acupuncture at the Left Weizhong Acupoint on Heart Rate Variability in Thirty Post-Stroke Patients—Results from a Transcontinental Teleacupuncture Study
JO  - OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
SP  - 003
VL  - 01
IS  - 01
AB  - (1) Background: Within this study, we assessed the effects of acupuncture on heart rate variability (HRV) in Chinese post-stroke patients.
(2) Methods: In 30 Chinese post-stroke patients (14 f, 16 m; mean age ± SD 64.3 ± 3.8 years; range 40 - 80 years) electrocardiographic signals before, during and after acupuncture at the left Weizhong acupoint (BL40) were recorded in Harbin and analyzed in Graz using teleacupuncture via internet. HRV data were analyzed in the time and frequency domain and a protocol from Austria was sent to the team in China immediately after the treatment and recording session.
(3) Results: The standard deviation of normal to normal (SDNN) and total power of HRV (TP) didn't change significantly during and after acupuncture (P>0.05), whereas high frequency (HF) decreased significantly during and after acupuncture (P<0.01), and low frequency (LF) increased significantly after acupuncture (P<0.05). Therefore, there was a marked increase in balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic activity (LF/HF HRV ratio) during and after treatment.
(4) Conclusions: This study shows that HRV could be a useful parameter for quantifying regulatory effects of acupuncture on the autonomic nervous system. Together, our findings showed that acupuncture of the Weizhong point on the left side of the patients after cerebral infarction has no obvious influence on the heart rate and total HRV, but has an inhibitory effect on the vagus and excitatory effect on the sympathetic nerve.
SN  - 2573-4393
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.1601003
DO  - 10.21926/obm.icm.1601003
ID  - Pang2016
ER  -