South Campus—Acupuncture Ward VI（哈南分院）

Acupuncture Department, Ward 6

2022.11

The department currently has more than 10 medical and nursing staff, including 1 chief physician, 5 attending physicians, 4 PhD holders and 1 holder of a master's degree. The department undertakes clinical diagnosis and treatment of patients, training of medical students and scientific research. It has well-established diagnosis and treatment protocols for nervous system diseases and specializes in applying characteristic Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies such as acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine to treat cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, post-stroke dysphagia, subarachnoid hemorrhage, vascular dementia, aphasia, and bladder and bowel dysfunction; peripheral nerve diseases, such as facial paralysis, trigeminal neuropathy and Guillain-Barré syndrome; spinal cord diseases, such as acute and chronic myelitis, spinal cord compression and spinal cord injury; and movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. The department attaches great importance to building the medical ethics of its physicians and nurses and maintains good doctor-patient relationships. Its rehabilitation and physiotherapy equipment is advanced, and it carries out a variety of services including moxibustion, gua sha (scraping therapy) and thumbtack-needle (intradermal needle) therapy. The department leads and participates in a number of national-level and provincial-level research projects. The department head and key members have inherited the academic experience of Professor Sun Shentian, a National TCM Master, and have applied the essence of his scholarship—scalp acupuncture, the transcranial repeated needling method, meridian-based syndrome differentiation and the spirit-regulating method—to disease diagnosis and treatment, achieving good clinical efficacy.