Rehabilitation Department

The Rehabilitation Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Chinese Medicine is divided into two departments: the Encephalopathy Rehabilitation Department and the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Department: 1. Encephalopathy Rehabilitation Department The Encephalopathy Rehabilitation Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Chinese Medicine is a comprehensive department that integrates acupuncture, massage, rehabilitation, exercise therapy, equipment training, and physical therapy. It aims to provide more professional and systematic rehabilitation treatment for cerebrovascular patients and help patients regain their ability to perform daily activities as soon as possible. At present, there are 26 medical staff in the department, including 1 chief physician, 3 deputy chief physicians, and 15 postgraduates with master's and doctoral degrees. It has formed a technical backbone team composed mainly of young and middle-aged people with master's degrees and doctoral degrees, and has good scientific research and clinical diagnosis and treatment capabilities. The encephalopathy rehabilitation ward was officially put into operation on March 14, 2016. It is located on the 15th floor of Block C, No. 314, Anshan West Road. The establishment of the ward provides a more favorable diagnosis and treatment environment and conditions for cerebrovascular patients, thereby greatly improving the clinical efficacy of patients with cerebrovascular disease. Main business scope: 1. Hemiparesis, poor sitting and lying posture, etc. that appear in the early stage of cerebrovascular disease. 2. Paralysis of hemilateral limbs in varying degrees during the recovery and later stages of cerebrovascular disease, poor postures such as sitting and standing, shoulder-hand syndrome, foot varus, muscle atrophy, finger flexibility impairment, balance impairment, etc.Main rehabilitation methods: 1. Exercise therapy: Rood technique, Bobath technique, Brunnstrom technique, PNF technique (neuromuscular facilitation technique), aerobic training, muscle strength training, joint activity training, balance training, coordination training, walking training, stretch training, core strength training, etc. 2. Occupational therapy: Finger fine movement training, daily living activities training, etc. 3. Traditional Chinese rehabilitation treatment: massage, joint loosening techniques, guidance, traditional boxing (Tai Chi, etc.), acupuncture, cupping, external application of traditional Chinese medicine, etc. 4. Rehabilitation training equipment: upper limb functional trainers, weight loss walking trainers, magnetic semi-recumbent bicycles, upper limb pull trainers, upper limb scrub boards, quadriceps trainers, lower limb adduction trainers, lower limb abduction trainers, ankle joint trainers, etc. Personnel Profile: There are currently 26 medical staff in the department. Among them, there are 13 professional acupuncture doctors, 5 professional massage doctors, 6 professional rehabilitation therapists, 1 professional doctor in psychology, and 1 professional doctor in internal medicine. The doctors in charge of the ward include Chief Physician Li Jinbo, Deputy Chief Physician Men Jie, Physician Feng Chunyan, Physician Yang Jian, Physician Kai Baichao, Physician Wang Zuobin and Technician Liu Chensi.Under the leadership of Director Li Jinbo, all medical staff in the Encephalopathy Rehabilitation Department will develop systematic rehabilitation treatment plans for patients with a more positive working attitude and professional rehabilitation concepts. The telephone number of the encephalopathy rehabilitation department is: 022-27432664, and the outpatient telephone number: 022-27432883. All patients and friends are welcome to consult. Address of the Encephalopathy Rehabilitation Ward: 15th Floor, Building C, No. 314, Anshan West Road, Nankai District, Tianjin. Address of the Encephalopathy Rehabilitation Clinic: Room 213, Building C, No. 314, Anshan West Road, Nankai District, Tianjin. 2. Comprehensive Rehabilitation Department The Comprehensive Rehabilitation Department is a high-quality, professional elite medical team. It is currently equipped with 1 chief physician, 1 deputy chief physician, 3 attending physicians, 1 resident physician, and 5 therapists, including 2 MDs, 4 MDs, and 5 MBBS.Department leader Yu Tao, chief physician, doctor of acupuncture, master's tutor, member of the Standing Committee of the Neurology Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and deputy director of the Neurological Professional Committee of the Tianjin Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. Under his leadership, the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Department adheres to the path of comprehensive rehabilitation of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, aiming at movement disorders, sensory disorders, balance disorders, speech and swallowing disorders, cognitive disorders, and defecation disorders caused by neurological diseases, bone joints, and soft tissue diseases; The department uses time-honored traditional rehabilitation techniques (acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, traditional Chinese medicine, wet compresses, fumigation, cupping, etc.), actively introduces modern rehabilitation techniques and equipment with evidence-based medical evidence and proven efficacy, and explores a model of combining the two to form a rehabilitation treatment system of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine with distinctive traditional Chinese medicine characteristics. The purpose of the department: to provide patients with a good medical experience through effective rehabilitation treatment, affable service attitude, and timely and thorough doctor-patient communication. Characteristics of disease-specific treatment: Adhere to the patient-centered approach and tailor-made individualized diagnosis and treatment plans based on every detail of the patient's dysfunction to improve the patient's quality of life and reduce the burden on their family members.The Comprehensive Rehabilitation Department currently treats: 1. Nervous system diseases: stroke (acute phase, recovery phase, sequelae phase), headache, insomnia, Parkinson's disease, cognitive impairment (vascular cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment), senile dementia (senile dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, vascular dementia), multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy, MEIGE syndrome, multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, myelitis, spinal cord injury, poliomyelitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia; Refractory facial nerve palsy, hemifacial spasm, oculomotor nerve palsy, sciatica, common peroneal nerve injury, post-herpetic neuralgia, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, motor neuron disease, epilepsy, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, meningioma and spinal cord tumor resection; 2. Bone and joint system diseases: fractures, joint replacement surgery, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, knee osteoarthritis, ankle sprain, shoulder, plantar fasciitis, arthritis, lateral epicondylitis; 3. Other ankylosing myelitis, rheumatoid arthritis, sudden deafness, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.