Clinical efficacy of scalp electroacupuncture combined with rehabilitation training for aphasia after head injury and its effect on patients’ language function and quality of life: An observational study

Abstract

To explore the clinical efficacy of scalp electroacupuncture combined with rehabilitation training for aphasia after head injury, and analyze its effect on patients’ language function and quality of life. Our hospital randomly enrolled 100 aphasia patients caused by head injury treated from March 2020 to March 2022 as the experimental object and divided them into the control group and experimental group, with 50 cases in each group. The general rehabilitation training was performed to the control group and the scalp electroacupuncture combined with rehabilitation training was performed to the experimental group to compare their mini-mental state examination scores, communicative activities in daily living scores, aphasia battery of Chinese scores, quality of life scores, mental status scale in nonpsychiatric settings scores, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale scores, effective rates, satisfaction of patients, and adverse reaction rates. In the between-group comparison, the patients in the experimental group had significantly higher mini-mental state examination scores, communicative activities in daily living scores, aphasia battery of Chinese scores, quality of life scores, effective rates, and satisfaction, and significantly lower mental status scale in nonpsychiatric settings scores, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale scores and adverse reaction rates, which was statistically significant (P < .05 in all cases). The combination treatment of scalp electroacupuncture and rehabilitation training can effectively improve the language function and quality of life of patients with aphasia after head injury and remarkably enhance the treatment effect.