Acupuncture Department Ward 4（南岗总院）

Acupuncture Department, Ward 4

2022.11

The 4th Acupuncture Department was established in January 2010 and has 59 open beds. It currently has 3 postdoctoral fellows, 7 doctoral degree holders, and 3 master’s degree holders; all nurses have at least a junior-college education. It is a united, progressive, and dedicated medical team. Over the years, the department’s medical services have continually improved. The 4th Acupuncture Department is now a National Key Clinical Specialty for Encephalopathy, a Key Discipline of Acupuncture of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a Key Specialized Disease Department for Spinal Cord Diseases of the Heilongjiang Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a Key Specialty for Spinal Cord Diseases of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. The department is equipped with advanced whole-chest vibration sputum-clearance machines, aerobic training machines, brain-function therapeutic instruments, traditional Chinese medicine fumigation beds, low-frequency therapeutic instruments, and other equipment. It specializes in combining Chinese and Western medicine, highlighting acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine treatments for neurological diseases and various difficult and complicated disorders. Satisfactory clinical results have been achieved, and the department is highly praised by patients.

Following the principle of taking illness as the foundation, making treatment the priority, and using prevention as a supplement, the department safeguards the physical and mental health of the people of Longjiang.

Areas of expertise

The department specializes in treating common, frequently occurring, difficult, and complicated diseases by means including acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. 1. Diseases of the nervous system, including dysphagia caused by various etiologies: coughing or choking when drinking, difficulty swallowing, and hoarseness; bulbar palsy (true bulbar palsy, pseudobulbar palsy). Sequelae caused by cerebrovascular diseases, including limb movement disorders, language disorders, diplopia, visual-field defects, sensory disorders, cognitive disorders, bowel and bladder dysfunction, emotional changes, pathological crying and laughing, etc.; acute facial neuritis, facial paralysis, refractory facial paralysis, and sequelae of facial paralysis (hemifacial spasm, synkinesis, facial muscle retraction); refractory insomnia and refractory vertigo; various pain conditions: headache, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, trigeminal neuralgia, postherpetic neuralgia, etc.; motor, sensory, and bowel and bladder dysfunction caused by spinal cord injury, myelitis, or surgery for spinal cord tumors or space-occupying lesions; Guillain-Barré syndrome; tremor disorders; paralysis agitans; peripheral nerve injuries (ulnar nerve palsy, radial nerve palsy, median nerve palsy, peroneal nerve palsy); autonomic dysfunction. Spasmodic torticollis and dystonia. Various sweating disorders, urinary incontinence, and urinary retention. Insomnia caused by anxiety, irritability, and restlessness. Difficult and complicated disorders such as deafness, tinnitus, ear fullness, head noise, and hemifacial spasm. Symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, and physical discomfort caused by a “wealth hump.” Symptoms such as inability to lie down and restlessness when sitting or lying caused by cervical discomfort. 2. Integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment of pulmonary infection caused by cerebrovascular disease and tracheostomy tube capping.

3. Acupuncture and medicinal treatment for depression, irritability, emotional instability, hot flashes and sweating, palpitations and insomnia, dizziness, and tinnitus occurring before and after menopause. 4. Acupuncture and medicinal regulation of chronic fatigue syndrome. 5. Acupuncture and medicinal treatment of allergic rhinitis. 6. Acupuncture and medicinal regulation of examination-related nervousness! 7. Classical acupuncture—pulse palpation—qi regulation—acupuncture points—disease prevention and treatment!

Achievements and honors

Pioneered 2 new technologies:

1．The new “penetrating acupuncture method for swallowing” for treating dysphagia after stroke won the Heilongjiang Provincial Medical and Health New Technology Application Award! It solved problems in the pharyngeal phase of dysphagia!

2. Oral-phase swallowing acupuncture for oral-phase dysphagia: for example, inability of the tongue to move in the mouth, incomplete closure of both jaws with copious drooling, inability to chew food, choking when drinking water, etc.; the efficacy is significant.

3．The new “Qianzheng acupuncture method” for treating refractory facial paralysis won the Heilongjiang Provincial Medical and Health New Technology Application Award! It solves problems after facial paralysis such as facial deviation, incomplete eye closure, inability to open the eyes, and inability to raise the frontal muscle! It also addresses post-paralysis facial spasm, facial synkinesis, facial misalignment, and other problems! Clinical results are significant and have received widespread praise from patients!

4．The new “back-extensor antagonist acupuncture method” won the Heilongjiang Provincial Medical and Health New Technology Application Award! It is mainly aimed at precise treatment of a paralyzed hand, enabling the hand to hold a pen and write!

5．Acupuncture is effective for postoperative urinary retention!

6. Acupuncture is highly effective for rhinitis!

7. Acupuncture is effective for chronic fatigue syndrome!

8. Acupuncture is effective for emotional disorders!

9. Traditional Chinese medicine regulation of examination-related nervousness in students taking the senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination (low mood, irritability, poor sleep, headache, head tightness, neck discomfort, etc.) is effective!

10. The combination of acupuncture and medicine is effective for tinnitus and deafness!

11. Classical acupuncture—pulse palpation—qi regulation—acupuncture points—disease prevention and treatment!

12. A special acupuncture method is effective for hemifacial spasm.