Rehabilitation Medicine

The Rehabilitation Medicine Department is a key department and postgraduate training site in rehabilitation medicine and physical therapy. It is a Qingdao specialty, a Shandong resident-training base and a provincial designated rehabilitation-therapy training base. It has two wards with 100 beds, 7,000 m2 of ward and therapy space, equipment worth more than 7 million yuan, and four subspecialties: neurological, musculoskeletal and pain, geriatric, and spinal-cord-injury rehabilitation. The department has 3 chief physicians, 2 associate chief physicians, 79 medical, nursing and therapy staff, 1 doctoral and 4 master's supervisors. Its mature services include motor and swallowing rehabilitation after brain injury, ultrasound-guided pain intervention, botulinum-toxin treatment, geriatric cardiopulmonary and cognitive rehabilitation, neurogenic-bladder care and orthoses. It also conducts research, master's and doctoral teaching, and therapist training.