Spine Department I

Department of Spine I currently has 11 physicians, including 2 doctors and 9 master's degree holders; 2 chief physicians, 4 associate chief physicians, 3 attending physicians, 2 resident physicians, and 3 master's student supervisors. In medical practice, the department adheres to combining inheritance with innovation, with improving the quality of medical care and clinical efficacy as its core objectives. Department of Spine I currently treats patients from throughout Xinjiang as well as from several neighboring countries and regions, performing more than 1,200 operations annually. Clinically, our department has established a distinctive integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine approach to diagnosing and treating common and frequently occurring spinal diseases. It has a high level of expertise in diagnosing and treating difficult and uncommon diseases. The department performs representative, highly challenging procedures, including cervical artificial disc replacement; combined anterior and posterior cervical approaches with vertebral body resection, bone graft fusion, and internal fixation; posterior cervical single-door laminoplasty; lesion debridement, decompression, bone graft fusion, and internal fixation for cervical and lumbar spinal lesions; corrective surgery for scoliosis; expansive laminoplasty for ossification of the ligamentum flavum in the thoracic spine; removal of high cervical spinal cord tumors; debridement, fixation, bone grafting, and fusion for sacral tumors through combined anterior and posterior approaches; and anterior atlantoaxial release plus posterior fusion. Department of Spine I is at the forefront within Xinjiang in minimally invasive spinal techniques. It was among the earliest departments to perform posterior lumbar transforaminal endoscopic discectomy, thoracolumbar vertebroplasty, and percutaneous pedicle screw internal fixation for treating thoracolumbar fractures, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spondylolisthesis, and other conditions. The minimally invasive treatments developed for lumbar disc herniation and thoracolumbar fractures feature less trauma, less bleeding, effective decompression, shorter postoperative bed-rest periods, and faster recovery. Patients can resume various forms of work and physical activity relatively quickly after surgery, improving their quality of life. These procedures provide patients with lumbar disc herniation a newer, more effective, and less traumatic advanced surgical option. In addition to performing various minimally invasive operations, the department also achieves significant results in the conservative treatment of lumbar disc herniation, cervical spondylosis, and other conditions through various traditional Chinese medicine treatments for low back pain and neck pain syndromes. According to each patient's condition, individual or multiple external treatment methods are selected based on pattern differentiation, either alone or combined with internal traditional Chinese medicine treatment, and have received favorable feedback from patients. The department has led 7 autonomous-region- and provincial-/ministerial-level research projects and has published 15 SCI papers. Every year, it undertakes theoretical teaching, clinical demonstrations, and supervised clinical internships in Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics and Traumatology and Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Orthopedics and Traumatology for all classes of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The department is equipped with a Leica F40 microscope, an ultrasonic bone scalpel, and endoscopic power instruments, improving surgical efficiency and safety.