One of the modern developments of Chinese Medicine has been in the field of scalp acupuncture. This is essentially a combination of traditional needling techniques with contemporary knowledge of cerebral cortex and brain function. Scalp acupuncture is used for such conditions as stroke recovery, Parkinson’s Disease and acute cerebral infarction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27141627

https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-017-2000-x