Songbei—Orthopedics Department

Songbei Department of Orthopedics at the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University is a comprehensive clinical department integrating orthopedic trauma, spine surgery, joint surgery, bone disease and deformity correction, and hand surgery; it currently has 13 physicians, including 2 chief physicians, 3 deputy chief physicians, 7 attending physicians, and 1 resident physician, as well as 10 nurses; the department has a well-balanced professional staffing structure. It is equipped with a C-arm X-ray machine, a transforaminal endoscopy system, an arthroscopy system, CPM, and various other advanced equipment for orthopedic surgery, examinations, rehabilitation, and other applications.

The distinctive services currently offered by the Department of Orthopedics include:

1. Orthopedic trauma surgery: internal fixation with interlocking intramedullary nails for long-bone shaft fractures, the PFN-A internal fixation technique for intertrochanteric femoral fractures, external fixation with an external fixator for open fractures, internal fixation with reconstruction plates and screws for pelvic and acetabular fractures, plate or screw internal fixation for fractures of the limbs, and arthroscopic ligament repair and reconstruction of the knee.

2. Spine surgery: surgical treatment of cervical and lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, minimally invasive treatment of vertebral body fractures (PVP and PKP), open reduction and pedicle screw internal fixation for thoracolumbar fractures, and surgical treatment of traumatic cervical spine fracture-dislocations.

3. Joint surgery: total hip arthroplasty and hip hemiarthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty, and arthrodesis.

4. Sports medicine: arthroscopic repair of injuries to the cruciate and collateral ligaments and menisci of the knee, and arthroscopic debridement of the knee joint.

5. Bone disease and deformity correction surgery: corrective surgery for varus and valgus deformities of the knee (bowlegs and knock-knees), corrective surgery for hallux valgus, corrective surgery for congenital hand deformities (polydactyly, syndactyly, etc.), release surgery for adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder, needle-knife release for stenosing tenosynovitis, and debridement of lesions in complex chronic osteomyelitis.

6. Microsurgery: repair of blood vessels, nerves, and tendons of the limbs, replantation of severed fingers, transplantation of vascular-pedicle flaps, free tendon grafting, etc.