Rehabilitation Medicine

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine was established in 2013. It is one of the earlier-established specialized departments in our city. After more than ten years of development, it has become one of the larger rehabilitation departments among municipal hospitals in Hangzhou, with a basically complete range of rehabilitation equipment. It is currently a National Flagship Department for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Rehabilitation, and Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Rehabilitation Medicine is a key discipline under development in Hangzhou. Its main responsibilities are: 1. Rehabilitation diagnosis, assessment, and treatment for outpatients and inpatients of the department. 2. Bedside rehabilitation treatment for inpatients in other clinical departments, including the ICU, Brain Disease Center, Department of Orthopedics, Cadre Healthcare Department, and Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment Center. 3. Providing clinical supervision and training for rehabilitation therapists, as well as teaching and research, at Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou Medical College, Ningbo College of Health Sciences, and other institutions of higher education. 4. As a standardized training teaching base for traditional Chinese medicine in Hangzhou, providing training for traditional Chinese medicine residents and completing the professional teaching tasks in rehabilitation, acupuncture, tuina, and other fields for rotating doctors.

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Zhejiang Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital) is a modern rehabilitation treatment center integrating medical care, teaching, and research. It includes a rehabilitation assessment room, physical exercise therapy room, occupational therapy room, physical agent therapy room, speech, cognition, and swallowing therapy room, and traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation therapy room. The department currently has 41 beds and 9 doctors, including 1 chief physician, 7 attending physicians, and 1 resident physician. All 9 doctors hold master's degrees, with master's degree holders accounting for 100% of the physicians. There are 7 rehabilitation therapists, all of whom graduated from specialized institutions of higher education such as Nanjing Medical University and Zhejiang Chinese Medical University. The department has 13 nursing staff members, including 2 rehabilitation specialty nurses, and 80% of them hold bachelor's degrees. After more than ten years of development, the Red Cross Rehabilitation brand has been recognized by colleagues and patients at the provincial and municipal levels. From 2020 to 2024, the department discharged more than 700 patients annually on average, with an overall treatment effectiveness rate of over 90%. It has organized the Hangzhou Therapists Salon twice and held municipal continuing education programs, including training courses on “New Advances in the Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Treatment of Stroke,” “Rehabilitation of Bone and Joint Diseases,” and “New Advances in Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation.”

Our hospital’s Department of Rehabilitation follows a development path integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Based on fully inheriting and carrying forward the traditional medicine of China, while widely applying traditional rehabilitation therapies such as acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, herbal fumigation and washing, acupoint application, acupoint injection, acupoint embedding, and manual therapy, it also actively carries out modern rehabilitation medicine technologies, including comprehensive training for hemiplegic limbs, comprehensive training for paraplegic limbs, exercise therapy, occupational therapy, joint mobilization, cognitive-perceptual dysfunction training, speech training, swallowing dysfunction training, balance assessment and training, activities of daily living assessment, and various physical agent therapy techniques. A comprehensive treatment approach has thus been established that places equal emphasis on modern and traditional rehabilitation treatment. By integrating Chinese and Western approaches and complementing their respective strengths, it achieves better therapeutic outcomes. The department is equipped with leading large-scale domestic medical rehabilitation devices, including a U.S.-made whole-body functional rehabilitation trainer (four-limb linkage), an intelligent feedback training system for the lower limbs, a bedside intelligent feedback training system, a scenario simulation assessment and training system, a speech and cognitive assessment and training system, an upper-limb rehabilitation function assessment and control training system, a swallowing therapy device (Netherlands), a brainwave biomimetic electrical stimulation device, an ultrasound drug-delivery therapy device, a high-power short-wave therapy device, an interferential wave therapy device, an electric multi-segment treatment bed, and a computerized cervical and lumbar traction bed. The eight-channel remote telemetry ECG monitor introduced in 2015 ensures the safety of rehabilitation patients during training. From 2018 to 2024, the department introduced digital OT, a cardiopulmonary rehabilitation assessment and training system, a surface electromyography assessment and training system, a pulmonary function assessment and training system, an electronic laryngoscope, musculoskeletal ultrasound, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and VR equipment, among other devices.

1. Stroke rehabilitation: For limb paralysis and speech, cognitive, swallowing, and other impairments caused by stroke, Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, tuina, exercise therapy, occupational therapy, speech, cognitive, and swallowing training, physical therapy, and other methods are comprehensively applied. Comprehensive rehabilitation treatment is provided for hemiplegia, facial paralysis, aphasia, dysphagia, spasticity, swelling, and other conditions to maximize the recovery of various functions and improve the ability to perform activities of daily living independently. Early bedside rehabilitation treatment is carried out in cooperation with the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, which can significantly improve clinical outcomes and shorten hospital stays.

2. Rehabilitation for Parkinson’s disease: On the basis of medication, acupuncture, moxibustion, joint mobility training, gait training, balance training, speech training, and other therapies can improve symptoms such as tremor, rigidity, and gait abnormalities, delay the progression of functional impairment, and improve patients’ ability to perform activities of daily living.

3. Spinal cord injury rehabilitation: Comprehensive rehabilitation is the most important characteristic. For various functional impairments, such as paralysis, sensory impairment, urinary and fecal incontinence, pain, muscle spasticity, and psychological disorders, our department uses a variety of effective traditional Chinese and Western medical techniques so that every patient can receive the most appropriate individualized rehabilitation treatment.

4. Rehabilitation for fractures and trauma: For pain, limited joint mobility, and other problems after fractures, hip replacement surgery, and trauma, acupuncture, moxibustion, physical therapy, joint mobilization, exercise training, and other treatments can significantly shorten the course of illness and improve treatment outcomes. Guided by the service philosophy of “Compassionate Care, Excellence in Medicine, Aspiration, and Diligent Practice,” our hospital’s Department of Rehabilitation takes sophisticated technology as its foundation and high-quality service as its vehicle, helping you restore function to the greatest possible extent and return to your family and society as soon as possible. On the road to rehabilitation, professional care and compassion accompany you every step of the way! Consultation telephone numbers: 0571-56109713 (ward nurses’ office); 0571-56109792 (ward doctors’ office).

The department’s research areas are: 1. Diseases of the nervous system: stroke, Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury, and others. 2. Bone and joint disorders: after fracture surgery, after artificial joint replacement, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cervical spondylosis, and lumbar disc herniation. 3. Various soft-tissue injuries, including ligament and tendon injuries. 4. Osteoporosis. 5. Functional impairments caused by various other conditions.