Brief Introduction of Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Department

Spinal cord injury rehabilitation department is the key department of Beijing Charity Hospital affiliated to the Capital University of Medical Sciences, founded in 1986.It is the first clinical department in mainland in China providing comprehensive and systemic rehabilitation treatment and complication management for the SCI patients. Several people in our department have visited the United States, Japan, Norway, Thailand and HongKang to study the advanced rehabilitation treatment knowledge. Based on the foreign advanced SCI rehabilitation technology and equipment, we establish and perfect successfully a series of SCI rehabilitation programs which combine western medicine with Chinese traditional medicine and adapt to Chinese condition. There are 60 beds in our department and several hundreds of SCI patients received comprehensive rehabilitation treatment every year. We provide Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Recreational Therapy, Chinese Traditional Therapy, Orthopedic Therapy, Psychological Rehabilitation, Social Rehabilitation for SCI patients. Our goal of rehabilitation is to maximize the amount of preserved ability, to help the SCI patients live independently or partly independently, to reenter the family and community finally. The characteristic treatments include:

1.Providing comprehensive and systemic SCI rehabilitation. Mainly include rehabilitation evaluation, designing the rehabilitation goal and rehabilitation training. 

2.Prevention and treatment of SCI complications, including pressure sore, spasticity, pain urinary tract infection, osteoporosis, hetertopic ossification, deep vein thrombosis etc. 

3.Experienced in treatment of SCI spasticity by selectively rhizotomy, phenol solution nerve blocks, rectal electrical stimulation and oral antispastic medicine, etc.

4.“Environmental Control System ”, which was coordinated designed by the Automation Institute of China Scientific Institute, adapts to the Chinese condition, will help the tetraplegia to control the family environment and improve their quality of life.