China Rehabilitation Research Center (Beijing Bo'ai Hospital)

A national benchmark platform for neurorehabilitation, the birthplace of neurorehabilitation in China, a national key clinical specialty, and a national standardization base for the whole-process rehabilitation and treatment of stroke and brain injury. It benchmarks against the international WFNR (World Federation for Neurorehabilitation) European and American neurorehabilitation centers and undertakes the task of providing comprehensive rehabilitation and treatment for severe brain injury and difficult neurological dysfunction cases nationwide.

Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance:

The China Rehabilitation Research Center (Beijing Bo'ai Hospital), established in October 1988, is my country's first Grade III Class A comprehensive public hospital specializing in rehabilitation. Directly affiliated with the my country Disabled Persons' Federation, it undertakes rehabilitation work in multiple fields, including rehabilitation medicine, rehabilitation research, talent training, community guidance, and international exchange. The center has several advantageous specialties, including neurological rehabilitation (4 specialized wards), spinal cord injury rehabilitation, pediatric rehabilitation, bone and joint rehabilitation, neurourological rehabilitation, and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation. This has formed a comprehensive rehabilitation service model with Chinese characteristics, covering disability prevention, acute care, early intervention, mid-to-late stage rehabilitation, occupational rehabilitation, and community and family rehabilitation.

Core business operational efficiency:

The center has over 1,700 staff members, covers an area of over 220 acres, and has 1,100 beds. It sees over 3,000 outpatients and emergency patients daily and admits over 11,000 inpatients annually. The Department of Neurorehabilitation comprises several specialized wards, including Neurorehabilitation I (K1) and a VIP center. Neurorehabilitation I alone has 69 rehabilitation beds, 12 rehabilitation physicians, 20 rehabilitation nurses, 1 doctoral supervisor, and 1 master's supervisor. The center receives over 4,700 inpatients for rehabilitation treatment annually and provides rehabilitation services to nearly 500,000 patients.

Discipline Positioning and Benchmarking:

It is a national key clinical specialty (rehabilitation medicine) construction unit (approved in 2014), a teaching base of the School of Rehabilitation Medicine of Capital Medical University, and the national standardized training base and only assessment base for rehabilitation professional resident physicians. In 2013, it became the first director unit of the Beijing Rehabilitation Quality Control Center. In 2021, Professor Zhang Tong was appointed as the director of the Beijing Rehabilitation Quality Control Center, responsible for formulating rehabilitation quality control standards, conducting rehabilitation personnel training, and carrying out comprehensive on-site supervision and inspection of all levels and types of rehabilitation medical institutions in Beijing. Internationally, Professor Zhang Tong serves as the chairman of the China region of the International Federation for Neurorehabilitation (WFNR) and a member of the World Stroke Organization (WSO), giving the discipline significant influence in the international neurorehabilitation field.

A national benchmark department integrating orthopedic and joint surgery and rehabilitation, and one of the few orthopedic and joint rehabilitation centers in China that deeply integrates surgery and rehabilitation. It is benchmarked against the international ISPRM musculoskeletal rehabilitation system and undertakes comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of complex cases of joint stiffness after trauma, postoperative functional impairment of orthopedic joints, and amputation rehabilitation nationwide.

Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance:

Relying on the rehabilitation foundation of the China Rehabilitation Research Center (Beijing Bo'ai Hospital), established in 1988, the department has accumulated over thirty years of experience and formed a six-in-one team rehabilitation model encompassing surgery, rehabilitation, orthopedic devices, psychological, social, and vocational rehabilitation. The department consistently emphasizes the equal importance of orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation, integrating surgery, rehabilitation, orthopedic devices, psychological rehabilitation, social rehabilitation, and vocational rehabilitation to maximize patients' limb function. In 2025, the department partnered with a top expert team from the national-level orthopedic medical center, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, to jointly create a "Joint Function Rehabilitation Training Course," building a bridge between orthopedics and rehabilitation.

Core business operational efficiency:

The department currently has 62 beds, 15 doctors, and 21 nurses, and boasts a number of nationally renowned experts and professors. In addition to the standard configuration of an orthopedic department in a top-tier hospital, it has established several specialized treatment centers and outpatient clinics, including: an arthritis treatment center, an arthritis specialist outpatient clinic, a geriatric bone disease outpatient clinic, a sports injury outpatient clinic, a knee pain outpatient clinic, an amputation rehabilitation outpatient clinic, and an amputee rehabilitation consultation center, to meet the needs of different orthopedic patients.

Discipline Positioning and Benchmarking:

It is a master's and doctoral training center of the School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Capital Medical University, undertaking teaching tasks at multiple levels, including undergraduate, graduate, and adult continuing education, with an annual teaching workload exceeding 60 hours. As a "national team" in my country's rehabilitation field, the department holds various national and municipal orthopedic rehabilitation training courses, making positive contributions to promoting the development of orthopedic rehabilitation in China. Key members of the department serve as team doctors for the National Paralympic Team, and in 2024, they participated as medical officers in the Paris Paralympic Games, successfully completing their medical support mission.

As the birthplace of spinal cord injury rehabilitation in China and a national benchmark for integrated spinal cord injury rehabilitation, the affiliated unit of the Chinese branch of the International Spinal Cord Society, it is aligned with the International Spinal Cord Society's ISCoS rehabilitation system and undertakes the comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of severe spinal cord injury and complex cases of spinal injury combined with neurological dysfunction nationwide.

Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance:

Established in 1986, the Department of Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation is the first department in mainland China to provide comprehensive and systematic rehabilitation treatment for patients with early, intermediate, and late-stage spinal cord injuries. Based on the introduction of advanced equipment and experience in spinal cord injury rehabilitation from abroad, it has successfully established and perfected a complete set of spinal cord injury rehabilitation programs and methods suitable for China's national conditions. Specialists have been sent to the United States, Japan, Norway, Thailand, Hong Kong, and other countries and regions for learning and exchange, forming an open, integrated, and standardized academic tradition. Under the guidance of Academician Fan Daiming's concept of "integrated rehabilitation," the department has innovated rehabilitation techniques and formed distinctive subspecialties such as high cervical spinal cord injury, pediatric spinal cord injury, elderly spinal cord injury, neurogenic intestinal function rehabilitation, scoliosis and spinal cord tumor rehabilitation.

Core business operational efficiency:

The department currently has 120 to 150 beds and 43 staff members, including 4 chief physicians and 5 associate chief physicians. It treats over a thousand patients with spinal cord injuries annually, making it one of the largest clinical centers for spinal cord injury rehabilitation in China. The department comprehensively utilizes various methods, including exercise therapy, occupational therapy, physical factor therapy, rehabilitation engineering, psychological rehabilitation, and community and occupational rehabilitation, to provide full-cycle rehabilitation services for patients with spinal cord injuries, from the acute phase to community reintegration.

Discipline Positioning and Benchmarking:

This department is a key department of the China Rehabilitation Research Center (Beijing Bo'ai Hospital), forming a complete discipline cluster for the treatment, rehabilitation, and repair of spinal cord injuries together with the Department of Spinal Cord Surgery and the Department of Spinal Cord Neurological Reconstruction. Professor Li Jianjun serves as the Chairman of the Chinese Branch of the International Spinal Cord Society and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Chinese Rehabilitation Theory and Practice." He previously served as the Director of the China Rehabilitation Research Center and the President of Beijing Bo'ai Hospital, leading his team to elevate my country's level of spinal cord injury treatment and rehabilitation to the forefront of the world. As a teaching base of the School of Rehabilitation Medicine of Capital Medical University, the department undertakes the task of training doctoral and master's students.

A national-level benchmark platform for cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, the earliest base in China to systematically carry out integrated diagnosis and treatment of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, the chairman unit of the Lung Rehabilitation Committee of the China Disabled Persons' Rehabilitation Association, benchmarking against the American AACVPR cardiopulmonary rehabilitation system, undertaking the task of providing comprehensive care for the rehabilitation of severe cardiopulmonary injuries and difficult cases of postoperative cardiopulmonary dysfunction.

Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance:

The China Rehabilitation Research Center (Beijing Bo'ai Hospital), established in 1988, is my country's first tertiary-level Class A comprehensive public hospital specializing in rehabilitation. The Department of Cardiology has emphasized cardiac exercise rehabilitation since its inception, and is one of the earliest departments in China to conduct rehabilitation for acute myocardial infarction, with over ten years of experience. Currently, it has expanded to include rehabilitation treatment for angina pectoris, patients after coronary intervention following myocardial infarction, and patients with chronic heart failure. The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine possesses over ten years of rich experience in pulmonary rehabilitation. As early as the autumn of 2007, it established the first pulmonary rehabilitation forum in China, which has been held multiple times and has had a positive and widespread impact on the field of rehabilitation medicine both domestically and internationally.

Core business operational efficiency:

The Department of Cardiology currently has 10 senior and intermediate-level physicians, including 2 chief physicians, 4 associate chief physicians, 5 PhDs, and 8 Master's degree holders. It admits over 1,000 inpatients annually, sees over 50,000 outpatients annually, performs over 800 interventional procedures annually, and conducts 3,000 cardiac rehabilitation procedures annually. The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine currently has 1 chief physician, 4 attending physicians, 9 resident physicians, and 2 rehabilitation therapists. It has 33 beds (including 6 beds in the respiratory intensive care unit) and facilities including a bronchoscopy room, sleep laboratory, pulmonary function laboratory, respiratory therapy room, and pulmonary rehabilitation training room.

Discipline Positioning and Benchmarking:

The Department of Cardiovascular Medicine is the chair unit of the Geriatric Rehabilitation Branch of the Chinese Association for Geriatric Health Care and Medicine; the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is the chair unit of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the China Disabled Persons' Rehabilitation Association. The Department of Cardiovascular Medicine hosts a Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Forum every autumn, providing a platform for exchanging the latest hot topics in international and domestic cardiovascular rehabilitation treatment. The Department of Respiratory Medicine, as the chair unit of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Professional Committee, actively conducts comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation training for chronic respiratory diseases, equipped with professional rehabilitation therapists, and also explores new areas of rehabilitation such as early pulmonary rehabilitation for critically ill patients and pulmonary rehabilitation for neuromuscular diseases.

A leading domestic specialist hospital for integrated rehabilitation of chronic pain and musculoskeletal pain following nerve injury, and one of the few domestic integrated pain rehabilitation platforms combining "minimally invasive intervention + rehabilitation and functional reconstruction". It is aligned with the international IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain) diagnosis and treatment system, and undertakes comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of refractory chronic pain following spinal cord injury, brain injury, and trauma surgery.

Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance:

The Pain Management Clinic is developed based on the rehabilitation department of the China Rehabilitation Research Center (Beijing Bo'ai Hospital), established in 1988, and is one of the earliest clinical units in China to offer pain rehabilitation services. Its core physicians have received training at internationally renowned pain medicine centers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, and collaborate on research and technology sharing with the Pain Department of the Cleveland Clinic in the United States. The department's core philosophy is that "pain is manageable," integrating pain-free concepts into the entire rehabilitation process.

Core business operational efficiency:

The pain clinic is staffed by a team of pain specialists and multidisciplinary experts, integrating clinical practice and research. It offers four subspecialty clinics: general pain, spinal and limb pain, knee joint pain, and chronic pain neurological rehabilitation, providing comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for pain patients. The clinic has undertaken several provincial and ministerial-level research projects, including Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Projects, and has been granted multiple national patents.

Discipline Positioning and Benchmarking:

It is the affiliated institution of the Beijing Fengtai District Pain Quality Control Center. In November 2024, the "First China Rehabilitation Research Center Pain Rehabilitation Forum" was jointly hosted by the Pain Clinic of the China Rehabilitation Research Center, the Beijing Fengtai District Pain Quality Control Center, Xinyun Medical, and the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Regarding international benchmarking, it has established a collaborative research and technology-sharing mechanism with the Department of Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States.

The birthplace of neurourology and neurogenic bladder diagnosis and treatment in China, a national benchmark specialty for neurourology and pelvic floor rehabilitation, a core partner of the International Continence Society (ICS), benchmarking against the ICS international continence system, and undertaking the task of providing comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for complex cases of neurogenic bladder secondary to spinal cord injury and brain injury nationwide.

Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance:

The Department of Urology at the China Rehabilitation Research Center was established in 1988 and rebuilt in 2002. After more than 20 years of development, it has formed a complete system of neurourology and urological rehabilitation. Professor Liao Limin returned to China after obtaining his Ph.D. in Urology from RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He has long been engaged in medical teaching and research in neurourology and urodynamics, becoming a leading figure in the field of urological control and urological rehabilitation in my country. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Health and Function Committee of the International Rehabilitation Institute (RI), a member of the Council of the International Society of Neurourology (INUS), and a member of the Council of the International Society for Urinary Control (ICS). He previously served as the Chairman of the 42nd ICS Annual Conference.

Core business operational efficiency:

The department consists of 7 physicians (4 with senior professional titles, 2 with doctoral degrees, and 3 with master's degrees), 14 nurses, and 1 therapist. It offers a comprehensive outpatient service system, including general outpatient services (all day Monday to Friday and weekend mornings), international department outpatient services, renowned expert outpatient services, intermittent catheterization outpatient services, pelvic floor rehabilitation outpatient services, and urinary incontinence outpatient services. It is equipped with four major treatment centers: an imaging urodynamics examination center, a pelvic floor electrophysiology treatment center, an endourology treatment center, and a sexual function treatment center, as well as two laboratories: a neurourology and urodynamics laboratory and a pelvic floor electrophysiology laboratory.

Discipline Positioning and Benchmarking:

It is the affiliated unit of the Clinical Diagnosis and Research Center for Neurogenic Bladder of Capital Medical University, and jointly established with Beijing Hospital, Peking University People's Hospital, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University to form an internationally leading clinical diagnosis and research center for neurogenic bladder. The team has been deeply involved in major scientific research projects such as the "National Eleventh and Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Science and Technology Support", the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan National Key Research and Development Project", and the "National Natural Science Foundation of China". Its research results have won the first prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award and the first prize of Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Science and Technology Award. Professor Liao Limin, the discipline leader, has edited nine monographs in Chinese and English, including the Springer large-scale reference book "Handbook of Neurourology". He has published 384 papers in Chinese and 179 papers in English, with a cumulative impact factor of 528.9. He has supervised 34 doctoral students, 34 master's students and 3 postdoctoral fellows.

A leading domestic specialty in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine rehabilitation, and a national-level clinical, research and talent training base for traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation, it deeply integrates traditional Chinese medicine theory with modern rehabilitation medicine. Aligned with the rehabilitation medicine system of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, it undertakes comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of complex cases of stroke, spinal cord injury and brain injury using integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance:

Since its establishment in 1988, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation has developed over thirty years from a single outpatient clinic into a large department encompassing wards, outpatient consultation rooms, acupuncture treatment rooms, massage treatment rooms, and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine exercise therapy rooms. The department adheres to the development direction of integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine, promotes the hospital motto of "patients first, seeking truth and progress," and inherits the departmental culture of "professional excellence and integrity."

Core business operational efficiency:

The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Rehabilitation Department has 48 beds and primarily treats patients with hemiplegia or paraplegia caused by cerebrovascular diseases, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury. Since its establishment, the department has treated over 1,500 patients, providing timely and effective integrated TCM and Western medicine rehabilitation treatment, improving their self-care abilities, and helping them reintegrate into their families and society. The department currently has 3 chief physicians and 5 associate chief physicians, all with extensive clinical experience in integrated TCM and Western medicine rehabilitation. The TCM treatment center treats over 100,000 patients annually, with high patient satisfaction.

Discipline Positioning and Benchmarking:

It is the chair unit of the Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the Beijing Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and was approved as a pilot unit for international medical tourism services in traditional Chinese medicine in 2016. It undertakes two service packages: integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine rehabilitation treatment for spinal cord injury and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine rehabilitation treatment for lumbar disc herniation. The department undertakes traditional Chinese medicine teaching and internship work for the School of Rehabilitation Medicine of Capital Medical University, and undertakes multiple projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, provincial and ministerial-level projects, and first-in-class projects. It has published numerous papers in core journals and several monographs. At the international level, the department serves international patients from Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and other countries with a comprehensive TCM treatment model that integrates acupuncture, massage, suspension, and herbal fumigation. It has gained international influence by combining TCM and Western medicine in the rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries.

A leading domestic platform for postoperative functional rehabilitation and palliative care for tumors, and one of the few domestic rehabilitation systems focusing on tumor-related functional impairments. It aligns with the International Society for Cancer Rehabilitation (ACSM) tumor rehabilitation system and undertakes comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services for complex postoperative functional injuries and radiotherapy/chemotherapy-related complications.

Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance:

The Department of General Surgery is an important component of the comprehensive clinical departments at Beijing Bo'ai Hospital. It comprises specialized groups including thyroid and breast surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, gastrointestinal and abdominal hernia surgery, vascular surgery, anorectal surgery, wound surgery, and comprehensive oncology treatment. Guided by the hospital's "comprehensive rehabilitation" philosophy, the department deeply integrates surgical oncology treatment with postoperative functional rehabilitation, gradually forming a distinctive oncology rehabilitation approach focusing on postoperative lymphedema rehabilitation, functional training, and palliative care.

Core business operational efficiency:

The department is led by chief physicians and professors, who have extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of complex general surgical diseases and surgeries. Professor Xu Qing serves as the vice chairman of the Thyroid Cancer Integrated Rehabilitation Branch of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association and a standing committee member of the Breast Cancer Integrated Rehabilitation Professional Committee. Professor Yue Junzhong serves as a member of the Breast Cancer Professional Committee and the Breast Tumor Integrated Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association. They have national academic influence in the field of integrated tumor rehabilitation.

Discipline Positioning and Benchmarking:

It is a member unit of the Fengtai District Tumor Quality Control Center in Beijing (Professor Yue Junzhong). Relying on the platform advantages of the China Rehabilitation Research Center as the national "national team" of rehabilitation medicine, the department deeply integrates tumor surgery treatment with rehabilitation medicine, and has formed a unique "surgery-rehabilitation-psychology" integrated treatment path in the field of postoperative lymphedema rehabilitation for breast cancer.