Xu Jianguang

Xu Jianguang

Chief Physician, Doctoral Supervisor, and Head of the Spinal Surgery Department

Orthopedics
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-Research areas : spinal cord injury repair, upper cervical spine diseases, complex spinal degenerative diseases, and spinal deformity correction.

- Cutting-edge technologies: emergency decompression and reconstruction for severe spinal fractures and dislocations; open fixation for deformities at the occipitocervical junction; decompression surgery for complex cervical spondylosis and thoracic spinal stenosis.

- Areas of expertise: Cervical spondylosis of all types, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, thoracic spinal stenosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis, spinal fracture with spinal cord injury, scoliosis/kyphosis.

- Academic Highlights: Principal investigator of a National Key Research and Development Program project; Deputy leader of the Spinal Cord Injury Group of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; presided over multiple National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, published numerous SCI papers, and co-authored a monograph on spinal surgery.

- Core Values: To build a spinal cord injury treatment system at the Sixth People's Hospital, establish a standardized diagnosis and treatment framework for complex and difficult spinal diseases, and coordinate clinical practice and translational research in the discipline.