The department of Joint Surgery, founded in 1991, is now the key disciplines of Gansu Provincial Department of Education and Gansu Province Pharmaceutical Administration.

Predominant disease: degenerative joint diseases of the knee

To treat degenerative joint disease, we are using oral chinese medicine, herbal fumigation, herbal applying, physical therapy, injection therapy and intra-articular infusion therapy, which are of good curative results. Moreover, severe joint degeneration is treated with the arthroscopic for debridement, or knee replacement surgery.

Predominant disease: protrusion of lumbar intervertebral disc

Besides oral chinese medicine, herbal fumigation and herbal applying methods, we are using flat bed lying, traction, blocking therapy, blood activiating drugs, acupuncture, heat therapy, functional rehabilitation treatment to treat protrusion of lumbar intervertebral disc. For patients of severe condition which shows no response to the methods above, we turn to surgery.