Medical Degree Program in China - TCM Rehabilitation

 1. Introduction

2. Barriers and Syndromes

The view on dysfunction of TCM rehabilitation experiences a process of development, it gradually deeps with Chinese rehabilitation development. Modern rehabilitation in disorder is divided into three levels, morphological dysfunction that biological level of impairment, disability, namely individual level of disorder and social adverse barriers of the level of social groups. From the literature analysis, the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine on the level of disorder mainly reflects the biological level, as two levels of obstacles, the concept and system of ancient Chinese medicine has no clear exposition, the content of the similar meaning is scattered in various medical books. From the point of view of rehabilitation medicine, the level of biological disorder performs in the form of symptoms in traditional Chinese medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the symptoms are the basic factors and external manifestations of disease and syndrome. Syndrome is a disease process in certain stage a variety of symptoms, etiology, disease and evil is compared with the pathological factors, and disease has a close relationship, the reflection is the pathological state of the internal organs, meridians, Qi and blood and so. Due to the role of a cause so that the body produces a pathological change, reflect for a certain type of syndrome, the performance for some of the symptoms from rehabilitation perspective, these symptoms is leading to dysfunction of various factors. It has the same meaning in Chinese medicine Kang disorder the level and extent of rehabilitation in the identification and identification of syndrome types.

The concept of obstacle in modern rehabilitation and syndromes in TCM rehabilitation are not of the same level. Comparing the two, syndrome reflects the internal obstacles in the physiological function, and reflect on the obstacles to the rehabilitation is the dysfunction of the external shape and behavior. The concept of TCM rehabilitation has both the concept of syndrome and obstacles; this is the characteristic of TCM rehabilitation.

3. Evaluation

Evaluation is one of the characters of modern rehabilitation. It is a reflection of the degree of dysfunction, without the evaluation of rehabilitation medicine cannot become a complete system. TCM syndrome is the core issue of clinical medicine, is the main target of a variety of treatment methods of Chinese medicine, the syndrome is unknown; the prescription is difficult to conduce.

4 treatment principles

Through the above research and analysis, Chinese medicine rehabilitation is different from modern rehabilitation and TCM clinical study in the treatment principle; it takes treatment measures on the dysfunction under TCM basic theory.

1) Overall rehabilitation

2) Syndrome differentiation rehabilitation

3) Functional rehabilitation

4) Comprehensive rehabilitation

5. Treatment Methods

Rehabilitation medicine develops with the development of traditional Chinese medicine, the content has been improved, and the rehabilitation methods continue to be added, including a large number of drug therapy and non drug therapy. Such as traditional Chinese medicine therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy, fumigation washing therapy, Qigong therapy, exercise therapy etc. these methods are under the guidance of the theory of Chinese medicine, compared with modern rehabilitation methods, TCM rehabilitation is unique and effective method for treatment after practice test.