Physiotherapy Department

The Department of Physiotherapy was established in 1958 and currently has 11 medical and technical staff members, including 1 chief physician, 1 physician, and 9 rehabilitation therapists and nurses; 1 holds a master’s degree and 10 hold bachelor’s degrees. There are 30 treatment beds; the department is equipped with advanced medical equipment, including extracorporeal shock waves, a deep-muscle massage device, a laser-magnetic therapy device, ultrasound-guided interventional treatment for osteoarticular pain, an ozone (trioxygen) therapy device, a cervical traction therapy device, a spinal mobilization treatment bed, a suspension therapy device, an extracorporeal high-frequency therapy device, a five-sense-organ ultrashort-wave therapy device, an ultrasound therapy device, a microwave therapy device, a magnetic-vibration heat therapy device, an interferential electrical-injury therapy device, a neuromuscular therapy device, and other equipment. The distinctive new needling techniques performed include: small-needle-knife therapy, liquid needle-knife therapy, myofascial pain trigger-point therapy, and trioxygen injection therapy. The new manual techniques include: joint mobilization, rehabilitation training, lymphedema drainage techniques, muscle-effect taping techniques, rehabilitation assessment techniques, traditional tuina massage therapy techniques, moxibustion, cupping, etc. More than 20 papers have been published, and the department has participated in compiling monographs including 《Newly Compiled Clinical Osteoarticular Diseases》, 《Rehabilitation Nursing》, 《Modern Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine》, and other works. It is responsible for teaching undergraduate students in the Rehabilitation Therapy program at Inner Mongolia Medical University and training physicians undertaking further study from outside hospitals. Scope of outpatient diagnosis and treatment of the Department of Physiotherapy: (一) Osteoarticular diseases: painful conditions of the neck, shoulder, lower back, leg, knee, ankle joint, etc., osteophyte formation, tennis elbow, periarthritis of the shoulder, tenosynovitis, trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome, calcaneal spur, myofasciitis, fractures, fracture nonunion, residual-limb pain, etc. (二) Surgery: traumatic hematoma, pancreatitis, appendiceal abscess, mastitis, vasculitis, adhesions after various surgeries, prostatitis, etc. (三) Gynecology: pelvic inflammatory disease, adnexitis, pelvic abscess, vaginitis, etc. (四) Rheumatology: rheumatic arthritis, gout, etc. (五) Internal Medicine: acute and chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, lung abscess, diabetic neuritis, etc. (六) Neurology: facial neuritis (facial paralysis), cervicogenic dizziness, headache, insomnia, trigeminal neuralgia, etc. (七) Pediatrics: pediatric pneumonia, etc. (八) Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology: temporomandibular joint disorder, stye, otitis media, external auditory canal furuncle, deafness, tinnitus, rhinitis, pharyngolaryngitis, tonsillitis, periodontal abscess, etc. (九) Dermatology: herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia. Address of the Department of Physiotherapy: Room 7089, southwest side of the 7th floor of the Outpatient Building Phone: 0471-3451354.