South Campus — Neurological Rehabilitation Department Ward 1（哈南分院）

Neurorehabilitation Ward One

November 2022

Neurorehabilitation Ward One of the South Campus of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine is Ward One of the Rehabilitation Department of the main hospital, operating as one hospital with two campuses and one department with two campuses under dual-core operation. It is a key specialty of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a national-level key discipline, the cerebrovascular specialty base of the national pharmacological base, and the affiliated unit of the Heilongjiang Provincial Professional Committee of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation; Ward One of the Rehabilitation Department is a multifunctional clinical department integrating medical care, teaching and research. In 2007 it was approved as a key construction specialty of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and in August 2011 it passed acceptance by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and directly entered the ranks of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan key specialty construction units. In March 2012 it was approved as a national clinical key specialty.

As a master's degree programme in rehabilitation medicine and physiatry and in Traditional Chinese Medicine rehabilitation, it undertakes the theoretical teaching and clinical internship work in Rehabilitation Medicine, Clinical Rehabilitation, Neurorehabilitation and Rehabilitation Nursing for postgraduate, undergraduate and junior college students. The department has successively undertaken more than 30 scientific research projects and obtained a total of more than 15 scientific research achievements and awards. It has participated in the publication of 5 SCI papers, published more than 60 academic papers in core journals and published more than 30 books.

【Scope of diagnosis and treatment】

We adopt traditional Chinese acupuncture, tuina and Chinese herbal therapy combined with internationally advanced rehabilitation treatment models for comprehensive assessment, and comprehensively treat stroke hemiplegia (cerebral infarction, cerebral haemorrhage), craniocerebral injury, spinal cord injury, facial paralysis, peripheral nerve injury, Guillain-Barré syndrome, sports injury, dementia, aphasia, ophthalmoplegia, dysphagia, bowel and bladder dysfunction, vertigo and neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain and other diseases, all with good therapeutic results.

【Characteristic therapies】

1. Acupuncture-rehabilitation method: a method first proposed by Professor Tang Qiang, leader of the rehabilitation department of the national key specialty, for the treatment of dysfunction after stroke; active training combined with passive treatment, implementing synchronous acupuncture and rehabilitation, dynamic treatment and holistic rehabilitation;

2. Xingling head moxibustion: the application of a moxibustion cap with acupoints selected on the head according to syndrome differentiation; through its warming effect it regulates yin and yang, harmonises qi and blood, dredges the meridians and supplements yang to support the healthy qi, thereby achieving the effects of awakening the brain, brightening the eyes and benefiting the intellect. It is mainly used for cognitive impairment, poor memory, vertigo, blurred vision, ptosis and the like;

3. Traditional exercises: applying exercise methods such as Yijinjing and Baduanjin; through the organic combination of the three training means of intention, breathing and posture, and adopting postures such as standing, sitting and lying, they achieve regulation of the mind, the breath and the body, and play a good and important role in the recovery of motor function, depression, anxiety and activities of daily living in post-stroke patients, as well as in the prevention of stroke;

4. Taiji guasha: Taiji guasha adopts the Taiji arc technique of relaxed, deep, soft and smooth, circular and unobstructed, painless or minimally painful manipulation to accurately and lightly open the patient's adhered muscle knots and improve muscle tone within the painless or minimally painful range; it balances the muscle tone of the spastic and antagonist muscles, thereby better controlling the abnormally increased muscle tone of the affected limb, relieving spasm and promoting the recovery of the patient's motor function;

5. Lidocaine nerve block: using the effect of lidocaine injection in relieving excessive activity of spastic muscles, combined with the comprehensive use of acupuncture and rehabilitation, can more effectively reduce the degree of spasm of the paralysed limb, and lidocaine local block has the notable advantages of low drug cost, rapid diffusion, stable properties and good clinical safety;

6. Balloon dilation: for patients with dysphagia caused by cricopharyngeal achalasia after stroke, electroacupuncture combined with catheter balloon dilation is adopted, with definite efficacy, which can more comprehensively improve swallowing function and significantly reduce the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia after stroke;

7. Fu's subcutaneous needling: Fu's subcutaneous needling therapy, by performing a special sweeping manipulation in the superficial fascia layer, improves local muscle blood supply and function, achieving the therapeutic effect of the needle in the superficial layer while the effect is in the deep layer; it is suitable for most soft tissue pain, such as post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome, cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder and lumbar disc herniation; and for a few non-painful diseases, such as intractable facial paralysis, urine leakage, constipation, dizziness, post-stroke numbness, post-stroke abnormal muscle tone, dysphagia, chronic pharyngitis, insomnia and depression, etc.

8. Catgut embedding and needle embedding: acupoint catgut embedding and needle embedding therapy, based on acupuncture theory and guided by Traditional Chinese Medicine dialectics, through continuous stimulation within the acupoints, enhances the excitability and conductivity of the acupoints; it has the effects of dredging the meridians, balancing yin and yang, harmonising qi and blood and regulating the zang-fu organs, and is suitable for vertigo, cervical and lumbar spondylosis, insomnia, gastrointestinal dysfunction, obesity, dysphagia, ophthalmoplegia and various other chronic intractable diseases.