Rehabilitation Department

In 1921, the Beijing Cooperative Hospital was founded, and in that same year, American professor Andrew H Woods, then director of neurology, established a chemotherapy room to conduct electro-stimulation therapy for patients with neurological disorders. In 1932, American chemist Mary McMillan came to the Beijing Medical Association Hospital, founded an independent department of chemistry, marking the official establishment of the Beijing Medical Association and Hospital, which is today the forerunner of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. In 1948, Chinese-American Mrs. Huang Thien took over as director of the department of radiation therapy, and on the basis of original electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, phototherapy, therapeutics, method therapy, and so forth, mass therapy was again developed. In 1953, Dr. Zheng received a medical training course led by Soviet experts, later transferred to the Beijing Medical Association Hospital, and in 1954, Professor Zheng received his doctorate in former Soviet medicine and later moved to the Medical Association Hospital, where they served as vice-directors of the department of radiation therapy and director respectively. Since the 1980s, China's rehabilitation medicine profession has been developing rapidly, and Beijing Medical School and Hospital Technology Department have seized on opportunities to fill the content of modern rehabilitation medicine.