Rehabilitation Medicine

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Guang’anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, was established in 2022. It is a rehabilitation specialty department integrating clinical care, scientific research, and teaching. As a platform department for rehabilitation at Guang’anmen Hospital, it has established a Rehabilitation Center, with subspecialties including neurological rehabilitation, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, and oncology rehabilitation. Using a ward consultation model, it provides patients in all inpatient departments of the hospital with professional rehabilitation assessment, modern rehabilitation techniques, physical therapy, and traditional rehabilitation treatments (such as acupuncture). It also receives patients referred from the outpatient clinics of various departments and provides rehabilitation assessment, modern rehabilitation treatment (rehabilitation techniques and physical therapy), and traditional rehabilitation treatment (acupuncture and tuina). The department has a rehabilitation outpatient clinic, a physical therapy room, an occupational therapy room, a speech, swallowing, and cognitive assessment and treatment room, a cardiopulmonary exercise room, a rehabilitation assessment room, and other facilities. There are currently 4 rehabilitation physicians, including 1 chief physician and 3 attending physicians, all of whom have doctoral degrees. Two have postdoctoral work experience, and 1 has overseas study and research experience. There are 7 physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists. The department provides rehabilitation treatment techniques including physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), dysphagia treatment, cognitive and speech therapy (ST), and traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation (acupuncture, tuina, etc.).