Orthopedic Trauma Center Ward 1

The team includes nine staff with senior professional titles, 13 people with master's or doctoral degrees, one member of a national standing committee and two vice chairs at provincial level.

The Orthopedics Department of Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital is a key medical discipline and a renowned traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) department in Zhejiang and a hospital key discipline. It chairs the Zhejiang UBE Alliance of the International UBE Society (ISUBE), holds a standing committee position in the endoscopy group of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine's minimally invasive orthopedics committee, and a vice-chair position in the Zhejiang Preventive Medicine Association's bone and joint disease control committee. It leads the minimally invasive spine group of the Zhejiang Association of Integrative Medicine's orthopedics and traumatology branch and is a postgraduate and standardized training base for TCM orthopedics and traumatology.

In recent years the department has secured five provincial or ministerial and 15 departmental research projects and published 51 papers, including 21 indexed by SCI. The team has three master's supervisors, two adjunct professors, one emerging medical talent and one provincial emerging TCM talent, and has trained seven master's students.

With a focus on precision and minimally invasive care, the department treats spinal disease. It reports pioneering the provincial use of minimally invasive techniques for lumbar disc herniation, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spinal stenosis and spinal fractures; it performs over 500 minimally invasive spine procedures and over 1,000 spinal operations annually. The hospital describes its minimally invasive and degenerative spine care as advanced within the province. It treats degenerative disease, trauma, deformity, tumors and infections, including cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar stenosis and spondylolisthesis, cervical, thoracolumbar and upper cervical fractures, spinal tuberculosis, nonspecific spinal infection, spinal metastases and degenerative scoliosis. It reports early provincial adoption of percutaneous screws for upper cervical fractures, percutaneous pedicle screws for thoracolumbar fractures, minimally invasive fusion and fixation for lumbar degeneration, LLIF for degenerative lumbar scoliosis, and foraminal endoscopy and unilateral biportal endoscopic (UBE) techniques for cervical spondylosis, lumbar stenosis and disc herniation. The department describes these methods as causing less trauma and bleeding and permitting faster recovery.

For neck, shoulder, low back and leg pain, the department uses TCM methods including oral and topical herbal medicines, needle-knife therapy, manual spinal manipulation, herbal fumigation and washing, cupping and moving cupping, fire-dragon moxibustion, herbal acupoint patches, herbal foot baths, auricular seed acupressure and ultrasound-assisted herbal delivery, which it reports have produced good results.