Rehabilitation Medicine

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine was established in 1984 and officially renamed the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in 2011. After more than 30 years of development, in 2015 the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine expanded to include: the Outpatient Department (including treatment rooms), the North Campus Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Inpatient Department (with 26 beds), the Physical Therapy Room of the International Medical Department, and the West Campus Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. The current department director is Jiang Shan, and the head nurse is Guan Weiwei. The department has 2 chief physicians, 3 associate chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, 4 resident physicians, 15 senior technicians, 23 technicians, and 10 nurses. Among them, 6 hold doctoral degrees and 13 hold master's degrees.

Outpatient and inpatient facilities: There are 26 inpatient beds in total; the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine outpatient services include the Main Campus Outpatient Department, North Campus Rehabilitation Outpatient Department, and West Campus Rehabilitation Outpatient Department; an outpatient clinic for disability assessment in Beijing is also available.

Introduction to diagnostic and treatment equipment: The department has more than 160 sets of advanced rehabilitation medical equipment from China and abroad, including 1 fully automated robotic gait training and assessment system, 3 intelligent upper- and lower-limb rehabilitation robots, 1 isokinetic muscle strength testing and training device, 1 balance testing and training system, 1 three-dimensional motion capture and analysis system, and 4 sets of German hydrotherapy equipment, among others.

The department’s diagnostic and treatment specialties:

Neurological rehabilitation: cerebrovascular disease, traumatic brain injury, postoperative rehabilitation for brain tumors, spinal cord injury, and Parkinson’s syndrome.

Musculoskeletal rehabilitation: postoperative rehabilitation for fractures, postoperative rehabilitation following joint replacement, cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, lumbar spondylosis, osteoarthritis, etc.

Enhanced recovery after surgery: perioperative rehabilitation for lung transplantation, perioperative rehabilitation for kidney transplantation, perioperative rehabilitation interventions in general surgery, etc.

Chronic disease rehabilitation and medical rehabilitation: coronary heart disease, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, osteoporosis, etc.

Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic cardiac insufficiency, etc.

Pediatric rehabilitation: pediatric cerebral palsy, psychomotor developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, etc. Existing specialty clinics: specialty clinics for memory disorders, balance dysfunction, chronic diseases, sports injuries, cardiopulmonary diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sleep disorders, and osteoporosis rehabilitation.

Research achievements of the department: The department has undertaken more than 20 projects at various levels, including several projects under the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Five-Year National Science and Technology Support Programs; 4 major projects of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology; 1 subproject of the Chronic Disease Management Project of the World Health Foundation; 1 special project on chronic diseases of the Chinese Medical Association; and 4 hospital-level projects of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, among others. It has published more than 150 academic papers of various types and served as editor-in-chief or co-editor of more than 30 monographs. It has also established good collaborative relationships with universities and laboratories in the United States, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, and other countries and regions.

Department teaching:

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Teaching and Research Office formerly served as a rehabilitation professional training base and master’s degree graduate training site of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. It is currently the leading/host institution for the Department of Rehabilitation Clinical Medicine of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, and undertakes teaching and internship base responsibilities for rehabilitation programs at Peking University Health Science Center, Nanjing Medical University, Beijing Sport University, the School of Rehabilitation Medicine of Kunming Medical University, Capital University of Physical Education and Sports, and other institutions. In 2021, our department was approved as a national key standardized residency training base. Throughout the year, it admits visiting trainees in rehabilitation and related specialties from across the country and holds the national continuing education program “Rehabilitation Technology Workshop” twice each year. At the same time, as the Rehabilitation Technology Training Base of Chaoyang District, it regularly holds the “Rehabilitation Medicine Training Course for Community Health Service Personnel of Chaoyang District, Beijing” 2–3 times each year. It has held international academic symposia and national continuing education training courses on many occasions, including the International Advanced Seminar on Sports Rehabilitation, the International Seminar on Podiatric Rehabilitation, and multiple National Seminars on Rehabilitation of Language and Cognitive Dysfunction.

Department honors:

The department has received awards including the Beijing Medical Association Advanced Individual Award, Advanced Collective Award, and the Advanced Individual Award for the Cultivation of Demonstration Zones for Community Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Nationwide in Beijing. The department has been rated as a hospital superior discipline for 4 consecutive years.

Other important matters:

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the department participated in drafting the “Guidelines for Respiratory Rehabilitation of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia” and produced a series of videos providing discharge guidance. It successively undertook rehabilitation medical support missions for the Beijing Olympic Games (the Bird’s Nest) and the Yushu earthquake.

Location within the hospital:

The Main Campus Rehabilitation Outpatient Department and Consultation Center are located on the 2nd floor of Building D of China-Japan Friendship Hospital’s Main Campus; the diagnostic and treatment area of the North Campus Rehabilitation Center is located on the 4th floor and in the west lobby on the 1st floor of Building C of China-Japan Friendship Hospital’s North Campus; the West Campus Outpatient Department is located in Consultation Room 7 on the 2nd floor, and the treatment room is located on the west side of the 1st floor.

Department telephone numbers: Main Campus Outpatient Department: 010-84205481, North Campus Outpatient Department: 010-84206636

West Campus Outpatient Department: 010-53236512

Inpatient Department: 010-84206599, Nurses’ Station: 010-84206598