Joint Surgery

Yueyang Hospital’s Department of Joint Surgery is a Shanghai Municipal Clinical Specialty of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Distinctive Advantages, inheriting and developing the distinctive traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese materia medica features of Shi’s Traumatology, while continuously exploring new methods and approaches for the integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment of various bone and joint injuries and degenerative diseases. With “integrated Chinese and Western medicine stepped treatment” as its distinctive diagnostic and treatment approach, it uses such means as external application of Chinese medicines, injection therapy, a combination of minimally invasive techniques and traditional Chinese therapeutic exercises, minimally invasive arthroscopic joint surgery, artificial joint replacement, and other methods to provide stepped treatment for various osteoarticular diseases, formulates individualized treatment plans according to the severity of patients’ lesions, ranging from comprehensive conservative treatment with traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese materia medica through minimally invasive treatment to open surgery for common osteoarticular diseases, and, after more than ten years of practice, has achieved very good clinical results. Under the leadership of Chief Physician Li Bo, the Department of Joint Surgery currently has eight staff members, including one medical PhD, four master’s degree holders, and two inheritors of Shi’s Traumatology. Our department is an authorized master’s degree-granting site of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has trained more than ten graduate students pursuing master’s degrees. It has successively undertaken multiple projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, the Sports Bureau, and Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and has published more than ten SCI papers in the fields of sports-related joint injuries and degenerative diseases.