Dr. Jiang was graduated from Wuxi Medical School in 1963. He attended an advanced course in traditional Chinese medicine in Jiangsu Province in 1985 and China Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing in 1996. He is currently Deputy Director of the Surgical Department of a hospital in Shanghai. He established a “Micro-Operation Clinic” where he treats patients suffering from diseases such as periarthritis, tennis elbow, tenonitis and osteoproliferation in knee joints with the mini-scalpel technology. Most patients can be relieved of their diseases after receiving one time operation.
2. A 50-year-old Ms. Fang visited Dr. Jiang in May 2000 for osteoproliferation in both knee joints. She had suffered from it for many years. Sometimes she even found it difficult to walk because of the pain. Some specialists in orthopaedics recommended the replacement of the knees with artificial ones, about which the patient hesitated. At the recommendation of some friends, she turned to Dr. Jiang. After an operation with the mini-scalpel technology, the patient was relieved of the pain and was able to walk like normal people.
With eighteen years of experience in the teaching and clinical practice of sports anatomy, massage and sports injuries, Dr. Yuan excels in the diagnosis and treatment of such injuries. He is particularly renowned for his unique views about and methods of the diagnosis and treatment of sports injuries and other common injuries through acupuncture and massage. His research work in this field has eventuated in 14 books and papers.
2. A sixty-four-year-old Mr. Zhao was sent to hospital for a sudden relapse of apoplexy in August 1988. He was discharged one month later when his conditions became stable, but his right side was paralyzed. His limbs were stiff and were constantly shivering; his facial complexion and eyes were both red, and his tongue was redder than normal with a thick yellow coating. According to Chinese medicine, this was caused by the excessive rise of the liver-yin. After receiving Dr. Yuan’s acupuncture and massage treatment for three times, which were complemented by both active and passive physical exercises, the patient’s right limbs became less stiff. Before the end of the third period of treatment, his joints were flexible enough to take care of himself in daily life.
2. A forty-four-year-old Mr. Dong visited Dr. Zhang in August 1998 for discomfort in the neck and shoulders, which were accompanied by numbness in the hands and legs and extreme fatigue. An examination showed that the soft tissues in the neck and shoulders lacked flexiblility; the ligaments on the back were in an abnormal shape; the sixth cervical vertebra slanted toward the right side while the seventh cervical vertebra slanted toward the left. The symptoms were diagnosed as a kind of cervical vertebra syndrome. After Dr.Zhang’s massage and osteopathetic treatment, these symptoms soon disappeared.
3. A forty-two-year-old Ms. Lee, who is a Chinese American, flew all the way to Shanghai from California and visited Dr. Zhang on December 25, 1999 for intolerable pains in the chest. The patient had suffered from the pains for seven years. She had visited a number of medical institutions in the United States, none of which came up with a reasonable diagnosis. She had to survive on painkillers in those seven years. Finally, she turned to Dr. Zhang at the recommendation of a friend. Dr. Zhang found that there was an apparent tender point beside the sixth cervical vertebra, and that the crest was slanted toward the right side, which were diagnosed as a special cervical vertebra syndrome. After Dr. Zhang’s massage and osteopathetic treatment, the patient felt immediate improvement and the pains soon disappeared. She has never experienced the same kind of pains ever since.
Dr. Zhao has inherited the special skills of his ancestors, especially those of relaxing muscles and stimulating blood circulation by the cupping therapy, which often produces relieving effect. In the past two decades and more, he has accumulated rich experience in combined therapy of Chinese and western medicine and in the traditional techniques of acupuncture, massage, osteopathy, and hydrolysis. He was the first doctor in China to adopt the combined method of hydrolysis and acupoint block in the treatment of the protrusion of the cervical vertebra and intervertebral disc, tennis elbows, myotenositis and bony spurs. Combining contemporary medical theories with practice, he has treated fractures using his grandfather's method in the fixation of bones with small splints, as well as external application and oral administration of medicine, which has proved to be very effective. His methods have helped most of his patients recover in about one month.
Dr. Zhao's fame has gone far and wide. His successful cases have been frequently reported by the local media, including the People's Radio of Shanghai, the periodical Public Health and the daily newspaper Xinmin Evening.