Traditional Chinese Medicine Bone Correction Therapy (Zhang's Bone Injury Therapy)

Zhejiang
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Zhang's Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics was founded by Zhang Yongji, a native of Fuyang, Zhejiang Province, during the Daoguang Period of the Qing Dynasty. It features manual reduction, external fixation with fir bark splints, and treatment with herb ointment. Since Zhang Yongji (1788-1862) founded Zhang's Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics, it has a history of more than 170 years. By the fourth-generation successor Zhang Shaofu (1922-1992) and the fifth-generation successor Zhang Yuzhu (1948), Zhang's Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics has gradually formed a bone injury diagnosis and treatment system characterized by "holistic syndrome differentiation, manual reduction, fir bark fixation, internal and external treatment, equal emphasis on tendons and bones, combination of movement and stillness, and functional exercise". It has unique bone-setting techniques and obvious characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, which has greatly reduced the cost of treatment and has significant social benefits. Zhang Shaofu was a famous old Chinese medicine doctor in Zhejiang Province and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Chief Chinese Medicine Doctor Zhang Yuzhu was the fourth batch of national old Chinese medicine experts and academic inheritance instructor and a famous Chinese medicine doctor in Zhejiang Province. They trained a group of disciples in the form of "master-apprentice", so that Zhang's Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics was inherited and developed. However, the essence of its treatment, such as manual bone-setting techniques, can only be fully mastered after three to five years of study; the application of fir bark splints is affected by the growth distribution of fir trees, and has certain geographical limitations and unsustainability; these are in urgent need of national support and protection.

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