No.	Searches	Results
1	exp brain disease/or exp cerebrovascular disorders/or exp carotid artery diseases/or exp cerebrovascular trauma/or exp intracranial arterial diseases/or exp intracranial arteriovenous malformations/or exp *intracranial embolism and thrombosis*/or exp intracranial haemorrhages/or exp stroke/or exp vasospasm, intracranial/or exp vertebral artery dissection/	124,290
2	(stroke or poststroke or post-stroke or cerebrovasc$ or brain vasc$ or cerebral vasc$ or cerebral vasc$ or cva$ or apoplex$ or SAH).tw.	238,828
3	((brain$ or cerebr$ or cerebrell$ or intracerebral) adj5 (inch?emi$ or infarct$ or thrombo$ or emboli$ or occlus$)).tw.	49,851
4	((brain$ or cerebr$ or cerebrell$ or intracerebral or intracranial or subarachnoid) adj5 (haemorrhage$ or hemorrhage$ or haematoma$ or hematoma$ or bleed$)).tw.	53,880
5	hemiplegia/or exp paresis/	18,761
6	(hemipleg$ or hemipar$ or paresis or paretic).tw.	29,846
7	1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6	347,012
8	Search:.tw.	334,997
9	meta analysis.mp,pt.	134,794
10	review.pt.	2,334,147
11	di.xs.	3,343,294
12	associated.tw.	2,927,523
13	8 or 9 or 10 or 11 or 12	7,576,754
14	exp acupuncture/	1596
15	acupuncture*.mp.	23,544
16	exp acupuncture points/	6044
17	exp acupuncture therapy/	22,520
18	exp acupuncture analgesia/	1181
19	exp electroacupuncture/	3565
20	electroacupunctur*.mp.	4285
21	electro-acupunctur*.mp.	706
22	acupoint*.mp.	3963
23	exp Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation/	7857
24	Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulat*.mp.	4424
25	percutaneous electrical nerve stimulat*.mp.	43
26	TENS.mp.	9583
27	14 or 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 or 24 or 25 or 26	37,765
28	7 and 13 and 27	419