Rehabilitation Medicine

Department name：Rehabilitation Medicine Center Department overview：The Rehabilitation Medicine Center of Guangdong Second People's Hospital is a specialized team integrating medical care, scientific research, and teaching, providing early, comprehensive, systematic, and standardized rehabilitation medical services for outpatients and all inpatients throughout the hospital. The center has a rehabilitation treatment area of more than 1000 square meters, and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine has 45 specialized beds. The department has treatment areas for exercise therapy, occupational therapy, speech, swallowing, and cognitive therapy, physical agent therapy, acupuncture and tuina therapy, and more. Under the leadership of academic leader and Director Jiang Yingping, it has established a rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment system centered on “modern rehabilitation” and characterized by “integrated Chinese-Western medicine rehabilitation,” comprehensively improving patients’ overall function. Medical specialties：1、Key conditions treated：（1）Neurological disease rehabilitation: functional impairments such as hemiplegia/speech/cognitive/swallowing disorders caused by stroke, peripheral nerve injuries, Guillain–Barré syndrome, facial paralysis, etc.;（2）Parkinson’s disease rehabilitation: symptoms such as tremor, movement disorders, sleep disorders, and pain;（3）Spinal cord injury rehabilitation: movement disorders, impaired bowel and bladder control, etc.;（4）Limb dysfunction due to fractures, after trauma surgery, and after joint replacement surgery;（5）Musculoskeletal pain rehabilitation: neck, shoulder, low back, and leg pain, sports injuries, scoliosis, temporomandibular joint disorders, etc.;（6）Rehabilitation for internal medicine and gynecological diseases: diabetes, obesity, insomnia, acne, bronchitis, gastritis, constipation, scar adhesions, postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction, dysmenorrhea, infertility, mastitis/breast hyperplasia, etc. 2. Specialized rehabilitation techniques: upper- and lower-limb rehabilitation robots, suspension training, extracorporeal shock wave therapy, WIRA light therapy, comprehensive lymphedema treatment, holistic postpartum rehabilitation, postural assessment and training, exercise cardiopulmonary assessment and treatment, central integration therapy, holistic fascial needling, pediatric external treatment in traditional Chinese medicine, etc. Teaching and training：The center undertakes teaching at Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Sport University, and other institutions, provides clinical internship supervision each year for nearly 100 students in rehabilitation therapy programs at nearly 10 higher-education institutions, and accepts more than 30 physicians, therapists, and nurses from across China each year for advanced training. Scientific research achievements：The center has led or participated in more than 10 research projects, including National Natural Science Foundation projects and provincial- and municipal-level projects, and has published more than 40 academic papers in China and abroad. Talent team：Academic leader Director Jiang Yingping is a chief physician, Doctor of Medicine, and doctoral supervisor; she has worked in the clinical practice, teaching, and research of rehabilitation medicine and traditional Chinese medicine for more than 20 years, developing distinctive diagnostic and treatment approaches for chronic and difficult-to-treat diseases, with significant results, and has received broad recognition and praise from patients inside and outside the province; she has been invited many times to deliver professional lectures and participate in academic exchanges at major domestic academic conferences; she has received honors including “Outstanding Director of a Rehabilitation Medicine Department in Guangdong Province,” “Famous Doctor of Lingnan,” and “Good Doctor of Yangcheng.” The department currently has 10 physicians, 15 nurses, and more than 30 rehabilitation therapists, including 1 with a senior professional rank, 5 with an associate senior rank, and 15 with intermediate ranks; 5 hold doctoral degrees and 5 hold master’s degrees; the department’s “integrated medical-nursing-therapy” team combines modern rehabilitation with traditional medicine, continuously exploring and innovating in diagnostic and treatment methods and technologies, and greatly improving rehabilitation outcomes for neurological diseases, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, musculoskeletal pain, insomnia, dysmenorrhea, infertility, and other conditions. A rehabilitation medicine center rich in talent Director Jiang Yingping conducting ward rounds to assess and analyze a patient’s upper-limb function The department has a fully equipped modern rehabilitation/traditional rehabilitation treatment area