Tuina Department Ward 4（南岗总院）

Tuina Department Ward 4

2022.11

Tuina Department 4: a national-level key discipline, a key specialty and discipline of the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for neck, shoulder, low-back and leg pain; the ward currently has 40 beds and 17 medical and nursing staff.

Clinical specialties of the department:

Treatment methods: 1. traditional Chinese medicine tuina spinal-balance methods: spinal muscle-and-tendon regulation, spinal realignment, and spinal functional exercises; 2. needling techniques: warm needling, electroacupuncture, water-needle acupoint injection, scalp cluster needling, neck needling, fire needling, and acupoint thread embedding; 3. moxibustion and cupping therapies: retained cupping, moving cupping, flash cupping, moxibustion cupping, bloodletting cupping, gua sha, smokeless moxibustion, and other methods; 4. physical therapies: computer-controlled Chinese herbal fumigation, traditional Chinese medicine directional transdermal drug delivery and computer-controlled multifunctional traction, extracorporeal shock wave therapy, an American chiropractic table, photothermal, photonic, microwave, infrared irradiation and other therapies, with comprehensive treatment using Chinese and Western medicines administered orally and by intravenous infusion provided concurrently.

Conditions treated: spinal and spine-related diseases: cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, spinal joint malalignment, pelvic rotation-displacement syndrome, piriformis syndrome and other conditions, periarthritis of the shoulder, knee arthritis, insomnia, facial paralysis, post-stroke sequelae, postherpetic neuralgia, obesity and other conditions.