Tuina Therapy

【Department History】 The Tuina Department outpatient clinic was established in 1997, and the Tuina Department inpatient ward was opened in 2009. 【Department Honors】 The department is currently a Key Specialty of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangdong Province, a Key Clinical Specialty of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Shenzhen, the chairperson unit of the Chiropractic Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, the director unit of the Shenzhen Tuina Quality Control Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the supporting department of the Shenzhen Municipal Government's "Three Famous Projects" in healthcare (the Traditional Chinese Medicine Chiropractic Team of Professor Wei Yizong, a National Famous Teacher of Chinese Medicine, and the Chronic Musculoskeletal Disease Team of Grand Master of Chinese Medicine Shi Qi), the chairman unit of the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Chiropractic Alliance, and the vice-chairman unit of the Spine Health Specialized Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. 【Department Leadership】 Professor Lin Yuanfang serves as the department head and academic leader. 【Research Scope】 The specialty has overturned the traditional manual therapy model of "treating only the head for a headache and only the foot for foot pain", and has creatively proposed that anterior pelvic tilt is the "prime culprit" of spinal diseases and of shoulder and knee joint pain; it has established the new "1+X" spinal treatment model centered on correcting anterior pelvic tilt, together with the new fixed-point lever bone-setting technique. 【Department Operations】 The department has 4 outpatient clinics (Futian, Guangming, Luohu and the Acupuncture and Tuina Branch Hospital) and 2 inpatient wards, with 77 open beds and a medical, nursing and rehabilitation team of 77 people, including 1 national industry chairperson, 1 Guangdong Good Doctor, 1 Famous Chinese Medicine Doctor of Shenzhen, 1 Class A talent in a specially appointed post of the municipal health system, 1 municipal leading talent in traditional Chinese medicine, 1 of the city's Top Ten Outstanding Contributors in Health, 1 instructor for the sixth batch of the city's academic experience inheritance program for famous Chinese medicine experts, and 1 doctoral supervisor. There is 1 deputy editor-in-chief and 1 editorial board member of the national higher education "15th Five-Year Plan" planned textbook for the traditional Chinese medicine industry, and 1 editor-in-chief of the "15th Five-Year Plan" innovative textbook. The annual outpatient volume exceeds 100,000 visits, with more than 4,000 discharges. The specialty takes the correction of anterior pelvic tilt as the root (1) and the locally affected site as the branch (X), creating the new "1+X" spinal treatment model, which makes complex spinal diseases simple, formulaic and highly efficient, and achieves simultaneous treatment of cause and effect and of both the root and the branch; it emphasizes that spinal adjustment manipulation is the most core means of "setting the spine right", and has independently created a series of new fixed-point lever spinal adjustment techniques that are precise, light, safe and form a system of their own; it advocates individualized precise exercise based on the balance of tendons and bones and was the first to propose the concept of fragmented exercise, enabling patients to persevere with ease and to take spinal health into their own hands. The specialty achieves good efficacy with low recurrence in spine-related female pelvic floor rehabilitation, scoliosis, lumbar disc herniation, cervical spondylosis, spinal canal stenosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis, knee osteoarthritis and frozen shoulder; it also offers distinctive bee-venom acupuncture clinics and specialty nursing clinics, as well as a sizable pediatric tuina section, and has opened specialty clinics for pediatric torticollis, pediatric cough and asthma, pediatric rhinitis and pediatric growth and development promotion. The department currently leads more than 10 projects at various levels, including those of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province and the Basic Research Special Project of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Bureau; it has published more than 100 professional papers in domestic and international academic journals, applied for and been granted more than 30 intellectual property items such as invention patents and software copyrights, and has led the formulation of 8 domestic and international guidelines. With the support of the teams of Professor Wei Yizong, a National Famous Teacher of Chinese Medicine, and Professor Shi Qi, a Grand Master of Chinese Medicine, the department has built an innovative technical system of "external regulation and internal nourishment" and "holistic treatment" for spinal diseases and shoulder and knee joint diseases, forming a five-in-one full-cycle spinal health management model that integrates prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, health preservation and preventive treatment of disease. Aiming to build a "National Advantage Specialty of Traditional Chinese Medicine", the department is creating a first-class discipline (specialty) with exemplary and leading influence! 【Department Group Photo】