Orthopedics and Traumatology

The Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was established in 1958 when the hospital was founded. It is one of the earliest departments established in the hospital and has gone through more than 60 years of ups and downs. With the support of the hospital leaders and the unremitting efforts of several generations of orthopedics experts and all staff, the department has been established as a first-level department of the autonomous region's comprehensive top-level traditional Chinese medicine hospital that integrates medical care, teaching, and scientific research. It is responsible for common and frequently-occurring diseases in the orthopedics specialty of the hospital. Diagnosis, treatment and clinical treatment of critical diseases, as well as clinical research and teaching in traditional Chinese medicine orthopedics. It also undertakes production internships, inter-curricular internships and residential training and teaching tasks for the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Inner Mongolia Medical University, the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Baotou Medical College and medical schools inside and outside the region. Our department ranked first in the specialty construction evaluation in Inner Mongolia in 2017 and was rated as the leading discipline in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is also the "Construction Unit of the Regional Traditional Chinese Medicine (Orthopedics) Diagnosis and Treatment Center Diagnosis and Treatment Alliance of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine", and is the chairman and secretary-general unit of the Orthopedics Branch of the Inner Mongolia Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Our department is also the "Hohhot Youth Civilization" team. At present, an in-hospital traditional Chinese medicine orthopedics center has been established. At the beginning of its establishment, the famous doctors Du Gengru and Li Bingyi of our department were already famous in our district.By the 1980s, it continued to grow and develop, and a group of orthopedic and traumatology experts headed by Hu Runyuan emerged. Under the leadership of famous veteran Chinese medicine doctors such as Du Gengru, Li Bingyi, and Hu Runyuan, the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology has continued to grow and develop, forming a new generation of orthopedics and traumatology team headed by Yu Jinggang. The team members include 31 medical staff and 14 doctors, including: 5 chief physicians, There are 2 deputy chief physicians, 3 attending physicians, and 3 residents; 3 postgraduate tutors, 1 with a doctoral degree, and 9 with master's degrees; 17 nursing staff, 2 deputy chief nurses, 4 supervisory nurses, 9 nurse practitioners, and 2 nurses. The personnel echelon structure is reasonable, the professional configuration meets the requirements, and there is a scientific and reasonable inheritance and training model. The department has 64 open beds. The number of outpatient visits reaches more than 15,000 per year, and the number of patients admitted annually reaches more than 1,100. Patients from other places account for 30% of the total patients. The annual number of surgeries is about 300, 78% are level three or four, and the minimally invasive ratio is 50%. The department integrates medical care, teaching, and scientific research, with the main research direction being the treatment of orthopedic diseases using integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Undertaken 2 projects of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3 projects of the Inner Mongolia Department of Science and Technology, 2 projects of the Inner Mongolia Health Commission, and 1 project of the Inner Mongolia Medical Science Joint Fund. Published 7 monographs.Participated in the compilation of 3 textbooks for the “13th Five-Year Plan” and 4 textbooks for the “14th Five-Year Plan”. The professional characteristics and scope of diagnosis and treatment enable the use of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine to treat dislocations and limb fractures. Integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine, oblique round-edged acupuncture is used to treat various bone and joint diseases of the spine and limbs (such as cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, lumbar disc herniation, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, rheumatoid arthritis, knee hyperosteogeny, knee synovitis, osteoarthritis, etc.) Arthritis, femoral head necrosis, ankylosing spondylitis, etc.); minimally invasive surgery is mainly used to treat cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, limb and spinal fractures, joint lysis, and artificial joint replacement to treat various hip and knee joint diseases and other orthopedic diseases. Special therapy, special therapy, and special medicine, oblique round-edged needles, were independently developed and patented by Director Yu Jingang of our department (Patent No.: ZL20062004746.1). Oblique circular needle therapy is a new therapy between acupuncture and acupotomy. The needles used in this therapy are short, thin and obliquely round. They are as safe as acupuncture needles and will not damage nerves and blood vessels. The therapeutic effect is the same as that of a small acupotomy, which can peel and relax. Clinical application is effective in treating common soft tissue injuries in orthopedics and traumatology.According to the types of diseases in the department, our department has developed a series of distinctive Chinese patent medicines, a total of 6 kinds of in-hospital preparations: Gegen Zhitong Pills (for radiculopathy and cervical spondylosis), Baishao Zhiyun Pills (for vertebral artery cervical spondylosis), Chuancao Jianyao Pills (for vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis) Lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, knee osteoarthritis), Kanggu Pills (femoral head necrosis), Qufeng Zhitong Pills (rheumatic bone paralysis), Tongdu Huayu Plaster (external plaster for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, unblocking collaterals and relieving pain), with remarkable clinical effects. The department's equipment includes minimally invasive spinal surgery system, arthroscopy system, G-arm machine, microsurgery system, shock wave therapy instrument, interference electric therapy instrument, three-dimensional traction bed, bone density measuring instrument, wax therapy machine, red and blue light irradiation therapy instrument, etc. Department telephone number and department location: Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology telephone number: 0471-6920501 (outpatient service); 0471-5322771 (inpatient service). Clinic location: first floor of the outpatient building (room 109.110); ward: west area on the ninth floor of the inpatient department.