{"id":13692,"date":"2026-03-11T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=13692"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:44:52","slug":"influences-of-tongdu-tiaoshen-acupuncture-therapy-on-neurological-function-inflammatory-factors-and-carotid-atherosclerotic-plaques-in-patients-diagnosed-with-atherosclerotic-cerebral-infarction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=13692","title":{"rendered":"Influences of Tongdu Tiaoshen acupuncture therapy on neurological function, inflammatory factors and carotid atherosclerotic plaques in patients diagnosed with atherosclerotic cerebral infarction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chijie Yang, Yinyin Zhang, Yanying Yang*<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation, Funan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuyang City, Anhui Province 236300, China<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Corresponding Author:<\/strong> Yanying Yang; <strong>E-mail<\/strong>: Yyy_edu@outlook.com<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<br>Background<\/strong><br>To assess the influences of Tongdu Tiaoshen acupuncture therapy on neurological function, inflammatory factors along with carotid atherosclerotic plaques in patients suffered from atherosclerotic cerebral infarction (CI).<br><strong>Methods<\/strong><br>One hundred and thirty-four patients diagnosed with atherosclerotic CI in our hospital from January 2022 to December 2024 were selected and divided into a study group (n=67) and a control group (n=67). The control group accepted oral atorvastatin calcium tablets. The study group accepted oral atorvastatin calcium tablets plus Tongdu Tiaoshen acupuncture therapy.<br><strong>Results<\/strong><br>Compared with the control group, the study group had lower NIHSS and mRS scores after one month of therapy (P&lt;0.01). The results also showed reduced levels of IL-6, TNF-\u03b1 and CRP, lower S-100\u03b2 and NSE levels, higher BI scores, and improved sleep quality as indicated by lower PSQI scores (all P&lt;0.01; for example, the between-group differences at one month for NIHSS, IL-6, BI and PSQI were 2.69 points (95% CI: 2.03-3.34), 3.18 units (95% CI: 2.50-3.86), 10.75 points (95% CI: 8.29-13.21) and 2.14 points (95% CI: 1.89-2.39), respectively).<br><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><br>Tongdu Tiaoshen acupuncture adjunctive to atorvastatin may improve vascular, neurological, inflammatory, and functional outcomes in atherosclerotic cerebral infarction, possibly via reductions in serum S-100\u03b2 and NSE.<br><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> atherosclerotic cerebral infarction, Tongdu Tiaoshen acupuncture therapy, neurological function, carotid atherosclerotic plaques, inflammatory response<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tongdu-Tiaoshen-acupuncture.pdf\">DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chijie Yang, Yinyin Zhang, Yanying Yang* Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation, Funan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuyang City, Anhui Province 236300, China Corresponding Author: Yanying Yang; E-mail: Yyy_edu@outlook.com AbstractBackgroundTo assess the influences of Tongdu Tiaoshen acupuncture therapy on neurological function, inflammatory factors along with carotid atherosclerotic plaques in patients suffered from atherosclerotic cerebral infarction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13693,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692\/revisions\/13693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}