The brief introduction to medical decisions of Tanggangzi hospital
   There are seven clinical decisions: rehabilitation department, the first rheumatism department, the second rheumatism department, geriatrics department (No. 5 and No. 6 building), soft tissue injury department, cervical vertebra and shoulder department, dermatology department and four treatment decisions: physical medicine department, sports medicine department, massage department and acupuncture department. It also set up out-patient department, electrodiagnosis department, radioactive rays department, pharmaceutical department and laboratory department.
=====Clinical decisions=====
Rehabilitation Department:
   It is one of the most important departments in Tanggangzi hospital and Anshan city.It has PT room, OT room , ST (speech therapy) room and nerve and muscle stimulated by electricity room. The director, Lin Hui led all the doctors to treat cerebral-vascular accident sequelae and cerebral paralysis, hemiplegia, paraplegia and joint disorder through joint flexibility method and nerve and muscle stimulated by electricity, which have reached the international level among rehabilitation field.
Rheumatism Department:
   It is one of the most important departments in the hospital. The patients with rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis can be treated through Chinese and Western medicine and physical therapies. The result is very effective.
Geriatrics Department:
   Much chronic geriatrics can be cured and it is a permanent department to receive the leaders from national health care bureau and Liaoning health care center.
Diabetes Department:
   This department's speciality is to cure diabetes, the director is Xiao Zheng who has manufactured Chinese herbal products himself, which have been achieved national patent.
Soft Tissue Injury Department and Cervical Vertebra and Shoulder Department:
   They are the most important departments, which are special wards for herniated disk, and cervical spondylosis, osteoarthropathy. The director of Soft Tissue Injury Department, Zhang Fuwen treated the patients with soft tissue injury and cervical vertebra or shoulder pain by rotation reduction, antagonism-traction and “ Panlong needles” that was developed by him. The cure rate is 78.8%, the effective rate is 99.6%. This kind of method is in the lead in medical field between Anshan and the Northeastern area.
Dermatology Department:
   All kinds of dermatology, such as psoriasis, eczema, pruritus and so on can be treated. On the base of physical therapies, the doctors invented several traditional Chinese medicine, for instant, No. One and Two Xiaoyin pills, Tiandi pill etc. that can cure different periods and types of psoriasis.
=====Treatment decisions=====
Physical Medicine Department:
It is one of the most important departments in the hospital that has unique hot mineral water and high quality hot mineral mud called “the first mud in Asia”, on the other hand, there are over 100 kinds of physical therapeutic methods, for example, sound, light, electricity, magnetic and wax and so on. In recent years, with importing excellent technology and equipment from the foreign countries, the cure rate is improved rapidly.
Massage Department:
Through massage doctors' study and summation with their great concentration, Tanggangzi massage has been formed a special skill. Up to now, there are more than 20 doctors who were sent to some countries, such as, Russia, Japan, Kuwait, Argentina, Uruguay, Albania, Ice Island, Basra etc to teach many foreign doctors massage technology and work in traditional Chinese medicine clinics in these countries.
Acupuncture Department:
It concludes acupuncture treatment room, bamboo cupping treatment room, pad with traditional Chinese herb treatment room and the following therapies: body needles, head needles, ear needles, eye needles and so on.
Sports Department:
It contains gymnastics in the water room and sports equipment room.Especially, the therapy of gymnastics in the water is very effective for the patients with functional disorders.
General Outpatient Department:
With a coverage area of 4,200m 2 , it was rebuilt in 2002, which was formed of internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology, paediatrics, ophthalmology, stomatological medicine etc. At the same time, some new technology and equipment from the foreign countries have been imported.