Acupuncture has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine
to relieve pain and cure a variety of diseases for more
than 2500 years. Acupuncture has been used for stroke in
China and Korea for centuries, but scientific studies on this
topic have only recently started to emerge. Some but not all
of these trials have suggested a positive effect on recovery.
There are numerous reports in the Chinese literature about
the efficacy of acupuncture in stroke rehabilitation. However,
the result was rarely quantitatively expressed by
properly validated measures, and intention-to-treat analysis
was never mentioned