Rehabilitation Personality】”Tui Na” ≠ “Rehabilitation”

It has been more than thirty years since modern rehabilitation medicine was introduced from abroad in China in the early 1980s, but it is only in recent years that rehabilitation medicine has really developed rapidly. As the country’s economy continues to develop and the national standard of living continues to rise, more and more people are becoming aware of the importance of health, and more and more people are slowly beginning to realize the importance of rehabilitation. What is rehabilitation? What is Tui Na? Tui Na Tui Na is one of the important elements of traditional Chinese medicine, which refers to the clinical skill of applying specific techniques and standardized movements to specific parts of the human body for the treatment of diseases and health care and strengthening of the body. The practitioner generally uses the hands, but may also use the wrists, arms, elbows, knees, feet and other parts of the body, or even certain tools, as needed. The basic techniques can be divided into six categories: pushing and kneading, rubbing, holding and pressing, percussion, vibration and shaking. Rehabilitation: the direct translation is “recovery”, “regain ability”, “restore the original rights, qualifications, status, dignity”, etc. The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a new definition in 1981, “Rehabilitation is the application of all measures designed to alleviate disabilities and handicaps and to make it possible for them to become part of society as a whole without discrimination. Rehabilitation medicine emphasizes the use of comprehensive measures to treat the functional impairment of the patient or disabled person with the main characteristics of improvement, adaptation, substitution and replacement, to achieve the goal of providing independence in life and return to society. The main contents include rehabilitation fundamentals (kinesiology, neurophysiology, environmental modification), rehabilitation function assessment (somatic function assessment, electrophysiological assessment, cardiopulmonary function assessment, speech and swallowing function assessment, daily living ability assessment, etc.), rehabilitation therapy (physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, rehabilitation psychotherapy, rehabilitation engineering, Chinese traditional rehabilitation therapy, etc.), rehabilitation clinical science and community Rehabilitation. The working model of rehabilitation is the team model, which refers to a multidisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach to working together for the functional rehabilitation of patients. Team composition includes interdisciplinary teams, which refer to disciplines closely related to rehabilitation medicine, such as neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, rheumatology, cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular surgery, and geriatrics; and intra-disciplinary teams, which refer to multiple specialties within a rehabilitation medicine facility, including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, prosthetic/orthopedic technicians, rehabilitation nurses, rehabilitation physicians, sports medicine physicians, and rehabilitation psychologists, etc. It can be said that massage is a part of rehabilitation. Therapists occasionally use massage techniques to relax spastic muscles or promote muscle contraction in rehabilitation, but more often than not, therapists allow patients to actively participate in functional training, which is the core of rehabilitation, after the patient’s muscle tone has been relieved through appropriate techniques. Some people say that the rehabilitation department is a geriatrics department, or more directly, a nursing home for the elderly, but as you know from the above, the elderly are only a small part of our rehabilitation treatment target. Broadly speaking, the target of our treatment is any patient who has somatic dysfunction and needs rehabilitation training, such as patients with stroke, fracture, post-surgical soft tissue, amputation, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, burn injury and other diseases that cause dysfunction in speech, movement, swallowing, intelligence and so on.