Songbei—Neurology

The Department of Neurology (Songbei) of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University has a total of 31 medical and nursing staff: 11 doctors, including 1 chief physician, 3 associate chief physicians and 7 attending physicians; 11 nurses; 7 rehabilitation therapists; and 2 technicians. There is 1 holder of a doctoral degree, 2 doctoral students in training and 8 holders of a master's degree. The department has reached a considerable scale in the diagnosis and treatment of common neurological diseases; especially in the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, it is skilled in the treatment of acute stroke and the rehabilitation treatment of stroke in the recovery phase, and has original views on the diagnosis and treatment of common neurological diseases as well as difficult and complicated neurological cases, adopting an integrated Chinese and Western medicine approach for comprehensive treatment. The department's neurofunctional examination room carries out electroencephalography, electromyography and other neuromuscular electrophysiological examinations.

In 2019 the department established a neurorehabilitation clinic, actively carrying out and promoting rehabilitation treatment with remarkable results. Within the Songbei District, it was the first to widely apply techniques such as electroacupuncture, micro-acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, hemiplegic limb training, suspension therapy, gait analysis, hand function assessment, isokinetic muscle strength training and occupational therapy to the rehabilitation treatment of stroke patients in both outpatient and inpatient settings, and has carried out various manual therapies in the rehabilitation clinic. The characteristic acupuncture method rapidly improves dysphagia in stroke patients with bulbar palsy; shock wave therapy has been effectively applied in neurorehabilitation and in the rehabilitation of muscles and bones, with remarkable efficacy; the comprehensive therapy of shock wave combined with acupuncture and physical therapy has been applied in the treatment of cervical and lumbar spine diseases, chronic strain pain, acute joint sprain, muscle strain and other diseases, achieving good results. Compared with traditional drug treatment, the department adopts a treatment method combining acute-phase treatment with rapid rehabilitation, greatly shortening patients' hospital stay and reducing the average length of stay, and has won the unanimous recognition and praise of the vast number of patients!