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 SN - 2573-4393 UR - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.1601003 DO - 10.21926/obm.icm.1601003 ID - Pang2016 ER -