The needle knife is a miniature ** utensil, similar to the needle of traditional acupuncture, with a small blade at the end of the needle body. It is such a needle that integrates traditional acupuncture needles and scalpels, which can release and remove pathological changes such as scars and contractures generated in the process of soft tissue injury repair without surgery, so that the body's dynamic balance can be restored, so that the patient's pain can be relieved. It can be said that it has the advantages of needle dredging meridian qi and blood and scalpel cutting and peeling.
However, the traditional acupuncture knife has very high requirements for doctors, and the operator must have deep anatomical knowledge and superb surgical techniques to ensure safety and accuracy, otherwise it is easy to deviate. Recently, the visualized acupuncture minimally invasive technology developed by the team of Professor Li Shiliang of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of China-Japan Friendship Hospital won the second prize of Science and Technology of the China Association of Chinese Medicine in 2023. At the same time, the visualized acupuncture minimally invasive technology was selected as the "leading technology" of the typical case in the field of traditional Chinese medicine of the "Science and Technology Innovation China" of the China Association for Science and Technology, and became one of the first five leading technologies in the field of traditional Chinese medicine released by the "Science and Technology China" platform of the China Association for Science and Technology since its establishment in 2020.
It is understood that the visual acupuncture minimally invasive technology is the first minimally invasive technology of traditional Chinese medicine launched by Professor Li Shiliang's team after 12 years of research, which innovatively integrates ultrasound medicine into the process of acupuncture medical diagnosis and treatment, and with the help of ultrasound-guided visualization advantages, it can reflect the structure and neurovascular conditions of the soft tissues at the lesion site in real time, so as to help the operator more accurately carry out preoperative diagnosis, intraoperative guidance and postoperative evaluation. This technology integrates the minimally invasive characteristics of traditional acupuncture technology, and has the advantages of small incision, no need for general anesthesia, short recovery period, and not easy to be infected, which fundamentally improves the accuracy and safety of the entire acupuncture diagnosis and treatment process, realizes the leap in the level of clinical diagnosis and treatment of acupuncture, and promotes acupuncture to enter the era of visualization.
It is reported that the minimally invasive technology of visual acupuncture has been widely used in many disciplines such as acupuncture, orthopedics, pain, and **, and has also shown excellent clinical results in the fields of spine, limb joints, peripheral nerve entrapment and chronic soft tissue diseases.
It is also reported that in order to cultivate more talents, since 2019, the Acupuncture Medicine Branch of the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine led by Professor Li Shiliang and the Ultrasound Visualization Acupuncture Minimally Invasive Technical Committee of the National Telemedicine and Internet Medical Center have continued to promote the technology system in more than 30 provinces and cities across the country, and the number of member units of the Ultrasound Visualization Acupuncture Technology Specialist Medical Consortium of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, which was established in 2021, has reached 170。 In December 2022, the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine released the first batch of seven clinical diagnosis and treatment guidelines for acupuncture, and the visualized minimally invasive technology of acupuncture has become the core technology of the series of guidelines, and the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of China-Japan Friendship Hospital has undertaken two of them as the leading unit. The "14th Five-Year Plan" textbook for higher education in the Chinese medicine industry, "Acupuncture Medicine", which is edited by Professor Li Shiliang as the associate editor, was also published in July 2023. Professor Li Shiliang said that he hopes that in the future, the minimally invasive technology of visual acupuncture knife can be promoted to more remote areas, so that grassroots doctors can also share advanced clinical technology, improve the level of medical care, and thus benefit more patients. (Guangming**Quan**Reporter Tian Yating).