Acupuncture and Moxibustion

The Acupuncture Department is one of the hospital's distinctive traditional Chinese medicine clinical departments. It is a member of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine's medical technology collaboration group, the chair institution of the needle-knife medicine branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine and the chair institution of the ultrasound-visualized needle-knife technical committee (CUGA) of the National Telemedicine and Internet Medicine Center. The hospital describes it as a national leader in ultrasound-visualized minimally invasive needle-knife techniques. Its Medical Alliance for Ultrasound-Guided Acupotomy Techniques (MAUGAT) has more than 100 large hospitals nationwide, according to the hospital. Its two main techniques are acupuncture and needle-knife treatment. Distinctive ultrasound-visualized minimally invasive techniques include visualized needle-knife procedures, pterygopalatine ganglion stimulation, nerve blocks and joint lavage and injections. Acupuncture is used for more than 50 conditions, including obesity, insomnia, depression, tinnitus and hearing loss, pain, stroke and facial paralysis. The hospital states that its visualized techniques have advantages for joint, spinal and chronic soft-tissue conditions, including neck, shoulder, back and leg pain, cervicogenic headache and temporomandibular joint dysfunction. The hospital describes nationally leading research in applied needle-knife anatomy and ultrasound visualization, including systematic basic research and development of techniques for the spine, limb joints and other body areas. The department participated in major university textbooks on needle-knife medicine and served as associate editor of five textbooks, including Needle-knife Medicine.