Overview 

The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) of SRRSH, founded in 1993, integrates clinical services, teaching and research. We are the first physical medicine and rehabilitation department in the Zhejiang Province to implement early rehabilitation after total hip or knee replacement surgery. The department has actively worked with other relevant departments to expand the scope of clinical services, and develop from mere orthopedic rehabilitation to comprehensive rehabilitation. We currently focus on neurorehabilitation, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, pelvic floor rehabilitation, intensive care rehabilitation and geriatric rehabilitation. Additionally, we have laboratories for rehabilitation robots, gait analysis ultrasound techniques and surface electromyography.

The department has 55 staff members, including 6 with senior professional titles and 1 master supervisor. Three rehabilitation medicine branches have been established in multi-courtyard areas respectively. Our department is the director unit of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Branch of the Zhejiang Medical Association. From 2014 to 2020, it ranked No. 4 in East China and No. 1 in Zhejiang Province in the Chinese Hospital Specialist Reputation Ranking (released by Fudan University).

Academic Status

1. National Standardized Residency Training Base (Rehabilitation Medicine)

2. Vice Director Unit of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Branch of Chinese Medical Association

3. Director Unit of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Branch of Zhejiang Medical Association

4. Vice Director Unit of Rehabilitation Physician Branch of Zhejiang Medical Doctors Association

5. Leading Unit of Zhejiang Rehabilitation Medicine Innovation and Transformation Alliance

Specialties 

1. Comprehensive assessment and rehabilitation for muscle spasm

2. Comprehensive assessment and rehabilitation for pelvic floor dysfunction

3. Comprehensive assessment and rehabilitation for musculoskeletal pain

4. Musculoskeletal ultrasonography and ultrasound-guided injection techniques for soft tissue (tendon, ligament) injury and pain

5. Electrodiagnostic techniques for nerve and muscle (needle EMG, surface EMG)

6. Functional brain imaging analysis technology

7. Application of clinical bioinformatics

8. Tissue structure analysis technology for soft tissue (tendon, ligament) injury and repair

Direction of Research

1. Basic and clinical research on brain injury

2. Basic and clinical research on bone and joint injury

3. Basic and clinical research on pelvic floor dysfunction

4. Electrodiagnostic technology for nerve and muscle

5. Traditional rehabilitation (acupuncture, massage, etc.)

Achievement

The department has participated in the National 12^th and 13^th Five-Year Plan major scientific and technological projects and one Zhejiang Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Administration project. It has undertaken three National Natural Science Fund projects, five Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Fund projects, one Zhejiang Provincial Science Technology Department project and over ten Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission projects. More than two hundred academic papers have been published. Over fifty of these were indexed by Science Citation Index. Additionally, we obtained two national invention patents and participated in editing a number of rehabilitation medicine teaching materials.