How to treat children with spastic cerebral palsy with acupuncture and tui na

  Acupuncture treatment and Chinese Tuina are the best of traditional Chinese medicine. They have been handed down from ancient times to the present, and their efficacy is self-evident. Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common type of pediatric cerebral palsy, and about 50% of the children with pediatric cerebral palsy belong to spastic cerebral palsy. Here we will tell you how to use acupuncture and massage for rehabilitation of children with spastic cerebral palsy?  Regarding acupuncture and tui-na treatment for children with spastic cerebral palsy, the professor said that Chinese medicine treatment can better help children to relieve their meridians and help them to rehabilitate.  1.Acupuncture therapy Upper limb: Main points-shoulder k, Tianzong, Quchi through Shaohai, Waiguan, and Hegu through Laogong.  Supporting points – shoulder internal rotation plus shoulder ching, shoulder s; elbow flexion without extension plus hand sanli, branch zheng; thumb inward clenched fist without release plus eight evil, five tigers (moxibustion) or hegu through houxi; finger flexion plus zhongzhu, wrist bone.  Lower extremities: main points – thighs, wind, Yanglingquan, Yinlingquan, Taichong, Huanjiao, Chengshan.  Supporting points: foot drop with Xiexi, Kunlun, Taixi; foot inversion with hanging bell, Kunlun; foot exostosis with Sanyinjiao, Taixi through Kunlun; toe constriction with Bafeng; scissor step with Fengshui, Yanglingquan, Jiejiao.  Dorsal points: liver, diaphragm and Sanjiao Yu.  Acupuncture – The main points are divided into two groups and used alternately. The main method is to use flat tonic and flat diarrheal techniques.  2, massage techniques: ① head and face: open Tianmen, push Kanguang, knead Yintang, wipe forehead, push frontal yin and Yang, point kneading head and face, apply kneading method on both sides of the cervical vertebrae, pinch and hold the cervical disk, push Fengchi, take shoulder well.  ②Back waist and abdomen: apply palm root kneading method on the waist and back of the child, push the acupoints on the first lateral line of the bladder bilaterally with one-finger Zen pushing method, point and press the back Yu point; or point and press the Huatuo pinch point and pinch the spine. Point and knead the acupuncture points of Zhonggui, Shenqu, Qihai and Guangyuan, and massage the abdomen.  Upper limbs: 扌gon the upper limbs, with the passive activities of the upper limb joints; point rubbing the Yangming meridian points on the upper limbs; first using the holding method and then using the 扌gon method on the inner and outer limbs; shaking the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints, rubbing the shoulder to the wrist; moving the joints, rubbing the fingers, using the twisting method, pulling and stretching the fingers, etc. for those with flexion and contracture of the fingers.  For lower limbs: 扌衮 lower limbs and passive activities of lower limbs at the same time, point rubbing of Yangming meridian points of lower limbs; for contracture of Achilles tendon, apply popping and pulling method; for internal and external rotation of foot, foot prolapse, etc., use corresponding pulling and stretching and pressing techniques to balance and coordinate relevant flexion and extension muscle groups and correct joint deformities.