First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University

Rehabilitation Medicine

Basic Information The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University (formerly the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation) was established in 2001 and became an independent department in 2018. It was approved as a National Demonstration Unit for Traditional Chinese Medicine in General Hospitals in 2017 and as a Key Clinical Specialty of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Liaoning Province (Encephalopathy) in 2018. In 2010, it was approved as a standardized residency-training base in Liaoning Province (Rehabilitation Medicine). It is a designated rehabilitation institution for Dalian medical insurance and a designated institution for pediatric rehabilitation (cerebral palsy) in Dalian. Technical Features The department focuses on neurological and musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Modern rehabilitation-medicine techniques are combined with traditional rehabilitation therapies to treat multiple diseases. Several staff members trained at comprehensive hospitals ranked among China’s leading rehabilitation-medicine institutions and have extensive clinical experience and expertise in various rehabilitation technologies. In cooperation with the China-UK Regenerative Medicine Application Research Center, stem-cell transplantation combined with rehabilitation training for childhood cerebral palsy and chronic spinal-cord injury is at an advanced national level. In 2019, the department was recognized as an Advanced Department in Hospital Medical Quality Management. Personnel Development The department emphasizes professional development and echelon building. It currently has 2 chief physicians, 2 associate chief physicians, and 1 attending physician, including 1 national-level talent, 3 doctoral students, and 1 master’s student. There is 1 master’s supervisor, who has trained 11 master’s students. Teaching The department attaches importance to teaching, applications for teaching projects, and faculty development, with notable achievements. It received 1 Third Prize for Undergraduate Teaching Achievement in Liaoning Province; led 1 project under the 13th Five-Year Plan of Liaoning Educational Science, 2 Dalian Medical University teaching-reform projects, and participated in 12 provincial or municipal teaching-reform projects. It has published 6 teaching papers. Nearly 200 teaching hours of rehabilitation-medicine theory are completed annually for Dalian Medical University. Staff participate on schedule in national and provincial faculty training. In 2019, the department won first place in the hospital’s residency-training faculty skills competition; in 2017, it was named an Excellent Hospital Residency-Training Base. It fully meets the faculty requirements of a rehabilitation residency-training base and provides annual internship supervision for rehabilitation therapy and sports rehabilitation majors. Research Research directions are established according to disciplinary development needs, with emphasis on basic and clinical research and the translation of clinical research. The department leads 1 project of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1 Dalian municipal research-planning project, and 1 Dalian Association for Science and Technology think-tank project. It participates in 2 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 1 project of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 12 provincial projects, and 8 municipal projects. It has contributed to 4 planning textbooks published by People’s Medical Publishing House, Science Press and others; edited, co-edited, or contributed to 7 monographs; contributed to 2 guidelines or expert consensuses; and co-translated 2 English monographs. More than 40 academic papers have been published, including 3 SCI papers. Expert Team The team has comprehensive professional backgrounds covering rehabilitation medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, acupuncture and tuina, and other fields. Members have repeatedly held academic posts in national, provincial, and municipal medical associations and served as journal editorial-board members. Three members are experts in Dalian labor-capacity assessment. Discipline leader Liu Yong is a chief physician, Doctor of Medicine, and master’s supervisor. He is Vice Chair of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Medical Association Hyperbaric Oxygen Medicine Branch; a member of the Pain Rehabilitation Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; Executive Director of the Pain Rehabilitation Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies; a Standing Committee member of the Liaoning Medical Association Hyperbaric Oxygen Medicine Branch; Executive Director of the Liaonan Training Base of the Liaoning Medical Hyperbaric Oxygen Quality-Control Center; Vice Chair of the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Branch of the Dalian Medical Association; Vice Chair of the Rehabilitation Physicians Branch of the Dalian Medical Doctors Association; Vice Chair of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Committee of the Dalian Association of Chinese Medicine; and Vice President of the Dalian Soft-Tissue Pain Research Association and Chair of its Rehabilitation Committee. His main research areas are the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of neurological diseases with traditional Chinese medicine, and basic and clinical hyperbaric-oxygen medicine. He serves as a communicating editorial-board member of Chinese Journal of Nautical Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine, a peer-review expert for Guangdong Medical Journal, a young and middle-aged editorial-board member and peer-review expert for Journal of Clinical and Pathological Research, and a member of the Chinese Translation Committee of People’s Medical Publishing House. Zhu Fang is a chief physician and professor who graduated from Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is an Executive Director of the Dalian Soft-Tissue Pain Research Association and Vice Chair of its Rehabilitation Committee; a member of the Hepatology Branch of the Dalian Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; a Dalian labor-capacity assessment expert; and a member of the Chinese Medical Education Association. She specializes in syndrome-differentiation-based treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation of hepatobiliary, spleen-and-stomach, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, rheumatic-bi, and tumor diseases. She has published more than 10 papers in journals including Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her paper “Experience with Meridian-Based Gua Sha for Periarthritis of the Shoulder” received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Chinese Physicians at the 4th World Academic Forum on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; her biography is included in The Grand Dictionary of Famous Chinese Physicians. Gong Xiaoyang is a doctoral candidate in medicine, associate chief physician, and associate professor. He is a member of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Development Committee of the Comprehensive Hospital Branch of the Liaoning Association of Chinese Medicine; a Dalian labor-capacity assessment expert; a member of the Dalian Oncology Society and of the Hepatology Branch of the Dalian Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; a member of the fourth committee of the Sub-health Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine; and an Executive Director of the Five Movements and Six Qi Committee of the Dalian Association of Chinese Medicine. His research focuses on traditional Chinese medicine prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of neurological diseases; combined acupuncture and medication for miscellaneous internal diseases and rheumatic-bi disorders; and preventive treatment. He received the First Prize of the Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Award for a series of studies on the repair of central nervous-system injury by spleen-yin-nourishing formulas (individual ranking: fifth). He has participated in multiple national, provincial, and municipal projects and published several papers. Chen Jing is a doctoral candidate in medicine, associate chief physician, and associate professor. She is a member of the Spine and Spinal Cord Committee of the Liaoning Rehabilitation Medicine Association; a member of the Rehabilitation Physicians Branch of the Dalian Medical Doctors Association; and a member and secretary of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Branch of the Dalian Medical Association. Her research focuses on rehabilitation treatment of musculoskeletal and neurological diseases and the clinical application and basic research of physical agents. She leads 1 university-level teaching-reform project, contributed to 1 “13th Five-Year Plan” textbook published by People’s Medical Publishing House, served as deputy editor or contributor to 3 books, and has published several papers in national-level journals. Future Development With the accelerated arrival of an aging society and society’s gradually increasing understanding of rehabilitation, rehabilitation medicine has become a highly promising clinical specialty. The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine will remain true to its original aspiration and mission. It has the confidence, responsibility, obligation, and ability to lead regional rehabilitation-specialty development, promote the rapid and steady improvement of overall healthcare reform, actively advance the allocation of high-quality rehabilitation resources to the community, and make greater contributions to the health of all and the Healthy China 2030 Plan.