The Department of Acupuncture & Tuina at Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, affiliated with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is the clinical heart of one of China's leading Grade-A tertiary integrated TCM-Western hospitals. Comprising Acupuncture Department I and the Tuina Department, it carries forward famed heritage schools of needling and manual therapy while treating hundreds of thousands of patients each year with non-pharmacological therapies.
Department Standing
Acupuncture: National Key Specialty
NATCM key specialty for the 11th and 12th Five-Year Plan periods; selected as a national key (cultivation) discipline in 2007.
Tuina: National Tuina Medical Center
Also a national key TCM specialty, an NATCM Regional TCM Diagnosis and Treatment Center, and lead institution of a national integrated TCM-Western clinical collaboration pilot for major and intractable diseases.
Shanghai Clinical Medical Center
Acupuncture and tuina is designated one of Shanghai's clinical medical centers.
WHO International Training Base
A WHO Shanghai International Standardized Clinical Training Base for Acupuncture and Tuina, training nearly 200 overseas physicians annually.
Core Techniques
26 Signature Acupuncture Techniques
Filiform needling, cutaneous needling, long (mang) needling, catgut embedding, electroacupuncture, cupping, vacuum cupping, moxibustion, and more.
460+ Treatable Conditions
Acupuncture can treat or participate in treating more than 460 conditions, with demonstrated advantages in over 100 — especially pain relief and restoration of system function.
Spinal Tuina
Ding's tuina therapy combined with spinal micro-adjustment for cervical disc herniation, cervical vertigo, lumbar disc herniation, spondylolisthesis, sacroiliac subluxation and adolescent scoliosis.
Pediatric Tuina
Specialized care for congenital torticollis, asthma, malnutrition and diarrhea.
School Inheritance
Ding's tuina school, Lu's acupuncture therapy (national-level intangible cultural heritage), Yang's acupuncture (Shanghai municipal heritage), and Shanghai-style pediatric tuina.
Priority Conditions
Expert Team
Dong Guirong, Chief Physician
Specialist in stroke, brain disorders, facial palsy, spinal cord diseases, insomnia and migraine.
Shen Guoquan, Chief Physician
Second-tier Professor and fourth-generation inheritor of the Ding's Tuina school; founder of the spinal micro-adjustment technique system and author of Theory and Practice of Spinal Tuina.
Jin Yicheng, Chief Physician
Founder of Shanghai-style pediatric tuina; treats congenital torticollis, asthma, malnutrition and diarrhea.
Zong Lei, Chief Physician
Acupuncture for fundus diseases, Parkinson's disease, insomnia and various intractable conditions.
Research & Campuses
National-Level Research
Led 2 national 973 Program projects; 19 NSFC projects in the past five years; National Science and Technology Progress Award (second class).
Three Shanghai Campuses
Ganhe Road main campus (Hongkou), Qinghai Road Famous Physicians Clinic (Jing'an), and the Shanghai Institute of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Meridians (Xuhui).
Contact
Website shyueyanghospital.com; switchboard 021-65161782.