Rehabilitation Medicine
The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University
The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine originated as our hospital’s Physical Therapy Room, which was established in 1957. In 1996, the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine was formally established and became one of the earliest rehabilitation medicine specialties established in China. The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is now a key clinical specialty in Chongqing Municipality; a master’s and doctoral degree-conferring site in rehabilitation medicine; the Key Laboratory of Physical Medicine and Precision Rehabilitation of the Chongqing Municipal Health Commission; the chairing unit of the Chongqing Rehabilitation Specialty Alliance; a critical care rehabilitation training base of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine and a national key base for standardized residency training; a training base for specialized rehabilitation nurses in Chongqing Municipality; and a standardized training base for rehabilitation therapists. In 2024, it was nominated sixth in Rehabilitation Medicine in the Fudan edition of the “2024 China Hospital Specialty Reputation Ranking.” The department currently has 160 open beds, divided among the Critical Care Rehabilitation Ward of the Yuanjiagang Campus (26 beds), the Specialized Rehabilitation Ward of the Jingwei Campus (104 beds), and the Geriatric Chronic Disease Rehabilitation Ward of the Qinggang Campus (30 beds). It has 119 professional staff members, including 1 doctoral supervisor, 7 master’s supervisors, 6 person-times of holders of talent titles, 1 person holding the “Leading Expert” title of a Chongqing Expert Studio, 1 high-level young or middle-aged medical professional in Chongqing Municipality, and 1 National Boxin postdoctoral fellow. The annual outpatient volume exceeds 100,000 visits, and annual admissions and discharges exceed 2,000 cases. It is the leading rehabilitation discipline in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, leading the development of the medical, teaching, research, prevention, management, and prevention-and-treatment systems for rehabilitation diseases in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
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Doctors
Doctor profiles: 23
何佳
Attending Physician
Clinical interests
Rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment of dysphagia after stroke, and airway management and rehabilitation therapy for critically ill patients.
余和平
Chief Physician
Clinical interests
Rehabilitation of neurological diseases such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and peripheral nerve injury, and botulinum toxin injection treatment for spasticity
吴丹冬
Associate Chief Physician
Clinical interests
Specializes in rehabilitation after orthopedic surgery, rehabilitation of sports injuries, rehabilitation of temporomandibular joint disorders, rehabilitation of joint stiffness, and rehabilitation of metabolic diseases such as diabetes and osteoporosis.