Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinical efficacy of multi-sensory stimulation Rood technique combined with muscle energy technique (MET) in the treatment of upper limb spasticity after stroke.Methods A total of 86 hospitalized patients with stroke admitted to The Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province from January 2025 to June 2025 were selected as the research objects. The patients were randomly divided into a control group (conventional rehabilitation therapy) and an observation group (Rood technique combined with MET on the basis of conventional rehabilitation therapy), with 43 cases in each group. The treatment was performed once a day, 5 times a week, for 4 consecutive weeks. Changes in modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Brunnstrom Motor Function Score (BMS), Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), Modified Barthel Index (MBI), as well as neurotransmitter levels of glutamate (Glu) and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) were observed before and after treatment. The treatment effective rate of the two groups was counted, and the efficacy grades were compared.Results The differences in observation indexes such as MAS, NIHSS, BMS, FMA, MBI, Glu and GABA before and after treatment in the observation group were all greater than those in the control group (P < 0.05). The treatment effective rate of the observation group was 90.7%, and that of the control group was 79.1%. The efficacy of the observation group was superior to that of the control group (P < 0.05).Conclusion Rood technique combined with muscle energy technique (MET) can significantly improve the spasm degree of muscles of each upper limb joint in patients after stroke, promote the recovery of upper limb motor function, improve the patients' daily living ability, play an obvious role in promoting the recovery after neurological deficit, and effectively regulate the neurotransmitter levels in the brain nervous system. The two techniques have high feasibility and safety in practical operation and are worthy of clinical promotion and application.