Clinical Study on One Patient with Diabetes-associated Oculomotor Nerve Palsy

Abstract

Objectives : We report a case of a patient with oculomotor nerve palsy accompanied by diabetes mellitus complication to show the efficacy of a treatment with Korean medical complex therapy. Methods & Results : We treated one patient by acupuncture, electroacupuncture, pharmacopuncture, herbal medication and Korean medical physical therapy. We measured the severity change in physical examination and had a result that the patient's symptom had improved. Conclusions : We suggest that Korean medical therapy including acupuncture, electroacupuncture, pharmacopuncture, herbal medication and Korean medical physical therapy have an effect with diabetes-associated oculomotor nerve palsy.

A Systematic Review of Acupuncture for Oculomotor Nerve Palsy

“…Among the 33 studies that used acupuncture as the main intervention, there were 18 case reports [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] RCT, randomized controlled trial. [10,20] and 1 used chuna [7].…”

“…In 17 studies, stroke, diabetes, trauma, infection, and idiopathic causes were recorded, but 19 studies did not document the cause of oculomotor nerve palsy. There were 223 stroke patients [9,10,18,20,21,29,30,33,36], 221 diabetic patients [24,25,[34][35][36], 12 infections reported [9,36], and 44 idiopathic cases [13,14,32] (Fig. 5).…”