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3.Result
3.1 Criterion of therapeutic effect
We assessed the severity of facial paralysis according to the 40-score method proposed by Japanese Association
of Neurology[1]. 10 movements were observed including stationary, frowning, closing eyes gently, closing eyes
heavily, closing the ipsilateral eye, moving the alae nasi, pucking up cheek, showing the teeth, whistling, and moving
the mouth to straight line. The situation in which there is no obviously difference between the ipsilateral site and
contralateral site was recorded as 5 scores. The situation in which the ipsilateral movement was weakened was
recorded as 2 scores ,if there was no ipsilateral movement, we recorded as 0 score. The score was made twice
before and after treatment respectively. The improvement rate was calculated as follows: (scores before treatment -
scores after treatment)/(40- scores before treatment)×100%.The improvement rate of 100% was considered as
recovery, the improvement rates between 60%-99% were considered as significantly effective, the improvement
rates between 25%-59 were considered as effective, the improvement rates between 0-24% were considered as
effective.
3.2 The safety assessment criterion
The safety assessment criterion was classified as 4 grades, as follows(table 1):
grade symptoms scores
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No symptoms such as dizzy, difficult withdrawal of needles, or haematoma, and no adverse
reactions in blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac rhythm, or breath appeared during
acupuncturing.
Slight symptoms such as dizzy, difficult withdrawal of needles, or haematoma, and slight adverse
reactions in blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac rhythm, or breath appeared during
acupuncturing, which needed not to be deal with.
Moderate symptoms such as dizzy, difficult withdrawal of needles, or haematoma, and moderate
adverse reactions in blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac rhythm, or breath appeared during
acupuncturing, which needed to be deal with.
Serious symptoms such as dizzy, difficult withdrawal of needles, or haematoma, and severe
adverse reactions in blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac rhythm, or breath appeared during
acupuncturing, which resulted in the interruption of the study.
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3.3 Result
The comparison of the effect between the two groups, as follows (table 2):
recovery (%)
significantly
effective (%)
effective (%) ineffective (%)
Experimental group
(44 cases)
Control group
(37cases)
40 cases (90.90%) 3 cases (6.81%) 1 cases (2.27%) 0 cases (0%)
27 cases (72.97%) 4 cases (10.81%) 6 cases (16.21%) 0 cases (0%)
From table 2, we found that though the effective rates of the two groups were same, the cure rate of the experimental
group was better than that of control group (chi-square test, p