中风后肩手综合征是指中风后出现患侧上肢肩周和手关节疼痛、活动受限，晚期肌肉明显萎缩等。 其发病机制尚不明确，现代医学多认为与自主神经系统功能异常有关。 中风后肩手综合征与《灵枢》中所述的“是动则病嗌痛，颔肿，不可以顾，肩似拔，臑似折”颇为类似，属中医学“痹证”范畴。 目前现代医学对于中风后肩手综合征疗效差，而针灸治疗有独特的疗效，尤其近年来大量的临床实践为针灸治疗该病提供了可贵的经验。

Post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome is one of the common sequelae after stroke， with pain and inability of the upper limb and hand of the affected side， and with obvious muscle atrophy in the later period. The pathogenesis is still unclear， and according to modern medicine it is perhaps related to the dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. In traditional Chinese medicine， post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome is categorized in “bi syndromes” and similar to what says in Miraculous Pivot “Invasion of pathogenic factors into the small intestine meridian include the following symptoms： sore throat， mandibular swelling， inability of the neck to move ， bursting pain of the shoulder and breaking pain of the medial side of the upper limb＂. Contrasted to the unsatisfactory curative efficacy of modern medicine in the treatment of it，acupuncture-moxibustion therapy has particularly more effective treatment outcome. This paper overviews the clinical studies based on a lot of valuable experience on acupuncture treating post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome in recent years.