Recently, Shanghai First Rehabilitation Hospital held a major medical consultation campaign at Wyndham Shanghai to promote the techniques and methods of physical therapy, and to increase public awareness of diseases and rehabilitation.
At the event, in addition to patients who came to consult on rehabilitation problems such as neck and shoulder pain as well as sports injuries, many other people attended out of interest in physical therapy, who came to experience physical therapy such as manual therapy and deep muscle relaxation instrument.
Sanitation worker Liu Fengcheng had suffered from lumbar vertebrae disease, whofelt the numb at the waist after the work. Upon understanding the situation, Amanda M Ferland, a senior physiotherapist at the University of Southern California, instead of jumping to judgement, carefully and inquired about Liu's work and life habits, in all details, "Do you usually use your left or right hand? Which side do you sleep on? When you are not working on a rest day, do you feel numb in this part?" After the inquiry, Amanda asked Liu to sit down, stretch the legs, and reach out his hands to touch his feet. "Do you feel the numb on your toes?" After getting a negative answer, Amanda let Liu lie down, stretch his arms and make a few moves, and after a comprehensive physical function assessment, he said: "Do not worry, nothing serious. I will teach you a few moves, and if do it every day, you can effectively solve the problem."
"When I visited the hospital for my waist problems, they only suggested taking medicine, but Doctor Ferland was asking about my life habits carefully, and taught me how to exercise every day, and the postures I should use in my work." The physiotherapist's diagnosis and treatment was new to Liu.
It is reported that the University of Southern California, ranking first in the United States for physical therapy, is a world-renowned institution of advanced physiotherapy and motor skills. Since last year, Shanghai First Rehabilitation Hospital has cooperated with USC to invite the experts in physical therapy to serve as hospital clinical instructors, and provide systematic teaching and clinical one-on-one guidance to orthopedic and sports rehabilitation for its rehabilitation therapists.
In order to further promote the development of rehabilitation medicine, and constantly improve the clinical quality of rehabilitation medicine, therapy and engineering, on September 4, the "Physical Therapy Clinical Teaching site, University of Southern California" was unveiled at the Shanghai First Rehabilitation Hospital.
