Pain Medicine

The Pain Clinic of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University was established in 1996 and was one of the earliest pain clinics established in the province. Currently, two outpatient sites are available at the Nangang and Songbei campuses. The Nangang Campus has 28 beds, 8 physicians, and 7 nursing staff, including 1 doctoral supervisor, 1 master’s supervisor, and 6 doctoral and master’s students currently enrolled. It is a member institution of the national committee of the Chinese Medical Association, with 1 committee member and 1 young committee member, and is the chairing institution of the Heilongjiang Provincial Painology Professional Committee. The Pain Clinic includes the Pain Clinic, Minimally Invasive Disc Clinic, Cancer Pain Clinic, and Neck, Shoulder, Low Back and Leg Pain Clinic; ultrasound treatment rooms are available in both the outpatient and inpatient departments, with X-ray- and ultrasound-guided minimally invasive spinal surgery, interventional treatment, nerve blocks, neurodestructive surgery, and intrathecal pump implantation as its core technologies, for the treatment of cervical and lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, chronic musculoskeletal pain, neuropathic pain, and other conditions.

It was among the earliest institutions in the province to perform lumbar spinal endoscopic procedures, cervical transforaminal endoscopic surgery for the treatment of cervical intervertebral disc herniation, and CT-guided thoracic sympathetic nerve and lumbar sympathetic nerve blocks for the treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis, Raynaud disease, diabetic foot, occlusive vasculitis of the lower extremities, and other conditions, achieving good results.

It has received 2 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, 2 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation projects, and 1 Provincial Natural Science Foundation project. It has participated in multiple provincial- and departmental-level projects; as first or corresponding authors, its members have published 15 SCI papers and 1 EI paper, including 2 papers with an IF above 10.0, as well as more than 70 nationally recognized core papers. It has received 1 third prize of the Heilongjiang Province Science and Technology Award and 1 utility model patent. Its members have co-authored more than 10 scholarly works, including Practical Pain Medicine and How Graduate Students Are Forged. They serve as reviewers for journals including Free Radical Research and The Clinical Journal of Pain; as corresponding editorial board members of the Chinese Journal of Pain Medicine and the Chinese Journal of Painology; and as young editorial board members of the Chinese Journal of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation.