Acupuncture Department II

The Second Acupuncture Department has equipped itself with a team of medical and nursing staff with solid professional skills, totaling 23 members in the whole department. There are 9 physicians in total: 7 with master's degrees, 2 with bachelor's degrees; 2 hold full senior titles, 3 intermediate titles, and 4 junior titles. There are 13 nursing staff: 6 nursing supervisors, 5 nursing practitioners, and 2 junior nurses. The knowledge structure and age structure are reasonable, and the talent echelon is complete. Currently 60 beds are open, with more than 1,600 inpatient admissions per year and an average bed occupancy rate exceeding 100%. The department has set up groups for facial paralysis, stroke, bone and joint diseases, pain syndromes, rheumatic immune diseases, atrophy (wei) syndromes, miscellaneous TCM diseases, and acupoint thread embedding, among others. To further enhance research capacity, the department has also specially organized a scientific research task force and established research rooms for the floating needle, the beryllium (pi) needle, acupoint thread embedding, the abdominal eight-needle, the scalp needle, the wrist-ankle needle, and the balance needle. It adopts a variety of therapies such as ordinary acupuncture, electroacupuncture, warm needle, floating needle, abdominal needle, thunder-fire moxibustion, over-substance (indirect) moxibustion, acupoint thread embedding, acupoint injection, auricular point plaster-pressing, bloodletting therapy, and Chinese herbal conditioning, achieving remarkable efficacy in the comprehensive treatment of acute lumbar sprain, sports soft tissue injuries, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, shoulder joint pain, degenerative knee joint disease, facial paralysis, paraplegia, various nerve injuries, obesity, insomnia, headache, migraine, sub-health, menstrual disorders, and other diseases. The inpatient ward has established standardized clinical diagnosis and treatment protocols for stroke (hemorrhagic stroke and ischemic stroke), facial paralysis, neck-shoulder-low back pain, and flaccidity (wei) syndrome, and undertakes the standardized treatment and clinical pathway observation of the national advantageous disease "facial paralysis". In recent years, the Second Acupuncture Department has presided over or participated in 5 research projects, published 20 papers, participated in compiling several textbooks, promoted 3 TCM appropriate technologies, and held 4 continuing education training classes. The Second Acupuncture Department has built a professional medical team that is technically skilled, rich in experience, united and collaborative, strong in emergency response capability, excellent in specialty technical quality, and rich in TCM characteristics; with its strong professional features it enjoys high visibility and influence in the Xinjiang region, and has won the praise of the people of Xinjiang with its high-quality service and exquisite techniques. As a teaching base of Xinjiang Medical University, since its establishment the Second Acupuncture Department has trained more than 20 graduate students, rotation interns, and advanced-training physicians from various prefectures, and has gradually developed into a clinical department integrating clinical care, teaching, and research.