After nearly 20 years of development, the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the FAHZU has been the clinical, teaching and scientific research center of rehabilitation medicine in Zhejiang province, undertaking the task of rehabilitation for complex diseases in the whole province, and the medical level is in the forefront of general hospitals. The department is composed of the outpatient, ward, hyperbaric oxygen center, independent functional assessment area and rehabilitation function training area (including PT/OT/ST, etc.). The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is now responsible for the rehabilitation consultation and severe rehabilitation of all patients in the FAHZU, as well as the rehabilitation of the difficult and complicated patients in Zhejiang province.

Location

Outpatient: 6 / F, Building 1, Qingchun campus

Inpatient: 1 / F, Building 6, Chengzhan campus

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine consists of more than 60 rehabilitation medicine professionals, including three doctors and fifteen masters. Chen Zuobing, as the leader of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, is the executive director of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, the first chairman of the special committee on combination of medical and nursing care of Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, the first chairman of the special committee on combination of medical and nursing care of Zhejiang Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, the vice-chairman of Zhejiang Disabled Persons’ Federation, the vice president of Zhejiang Association of Rehabilitation Medicine and so on.

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine offers diverse subspecialty rehabilitation, such as intensive rehabilitation, enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS), sports rehabilitation, neurological rehabilitation, cardiac rehabilitation, postpartum rehabilitation, postoperative rehabilitation of breast, rare diseases rehabilitation, physical factor therapy and so on. The facilities of the department are advanced. In addition to the traditional rehabilitation equipment, the department is also equipped with CPET, musculoskeletal ultrasound, shock wave, rehabilitation robot, multi-functional scenario simulation assessment and training instrument and other high-tech equipments.

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine attaches great importance to scientific research and teaching and has led the establishment of several teaching and research centers such as Zhejiang University School of Medicine Rehabilitation Medicine Research Center, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center of Industrial Research Institute and so on. As far as now, dozens of rehabilitation professional training courses have been held, and thousands of students have been trained. The Department also undertook and participated in more than 20 national and provincial projects. Meanwhile, the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is the first national resident standardized training base and is the deputy editor of Rehabilitation Medicine which is published by People's Health Publishing House for national resident standardized training. The department is also the editor-in-chief unit of the Expert Consensus on the Integration of Medical and Nursing in China, the editor-in-chief unit of the Guide of the Combination of Medical and Nursing Rehabilitation, the director unit of the quality control center of rehabilitation medicine for standardized resident training in Zhejiang Province and the practice base of rehabilitation nursing specialist nurses in Zhejiang Province. Additionally, exchange and medical research activities have been carried out with Cleveland Clinic, the National Taiwan University Hospital, University of Macao, Columbia University and many other institutions.

As the first-class rehabilitation center, talent center, technology center and teaching center in Zhejiang Province and even in China, the position and the function of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the FAHZU has been constantly highlighted in recent years.