Release date: 2014-06-19
Traveling, bathing, getting up... these are easy things for healthy people, but for some old, weak, and sick people, it is an adventure, even a task that cannot be done by themselves.
Rehabilitation medical devices that can help patients with physical therapy, functional exercise, self-care and labor capacity are being welcomed by more and more elderly people and people with disabilities.
As China's aging society approaches, more and more elderly people need services in rehabilitation care. In recent years, China has proposed "the combination of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation" and "to complement the shortcomings of rehabilitation medicine", which indicates that the spring of rehabilitation medicine development has arrived. Liu Mingyu, Investment Director of ZTE Hechuang Investment Management Co., Ltd. believes that rehabilitation equipment is expected to become the next new growth point in the medical device industry.
"Compared with developed countries, although China's current rehabilitation equipment varieties are small and start late, the prospects are broad." Chen Yawei, director of the Public Relations Department of China Rehabilitation Research Center, also put forward similar views.
　 Rehabilitation medicine drives rehabilitation equipment Â
According to the concept of the World Health Organization, medicine is a natural science that maintains health by the four-in-one of preventive medicine, health care medicine, therapeutic medicine, and rehabilitation medicine. “Rehabilitation medicine is an important part of medical services.†Bi Sheng, director of the Rehabilitation Medical Center of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (301 Hospital), introduced.
In April 2009, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council pointed out in the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Medical and Health System": "Adhere to the overall consideration and focus on the combination of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation" "The service function of the new urban medical and health service system, Includes providing chronic disease management and rehabilitation services." The national “Twelfth Five-Year Plan†also explicitly proposed to accelerate the construction of rehabilitation projects for public hospitals, community service organizations, and private capital institutions. These are undoubtedly a positive policy factor in promoting the development of rehabilitation medicine.
"Modern rehabilitation medicine has developed rapidly in the past half century. Its development is an inevitable trend in the development of human medicine, and it is also the result of modern scientific and technological progress." Bi Sheng introduced that rehabilitation medicine is a way to eliminate and alleviate Human dysfunction, to make up for and reconstruct the lack of human function, to seek to improve and improve the medical discipline of all aspects of human function, that is, the medical discipline of prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, training and treatment of dysfunction.
In the course of treatment and training, patients are inevitably exposed to the help of rehabilitation medical devices. "Retractors, orthoses, electric, magnetic, ultrasonic instruments, etc. are commonly used physiotherapy devices in clinical practice." Bi Sheng said.
In addition to large hospitals, China's urban community health service network has gradually improved. Community health service institutions can provide community public health services and basic medical services. More and more elderly, disabled, and chronically ill patients can achieve home treatment and care, and rehabilitation. Medicine is not limited to hospitals.
"But in reality, the current community medical service organizations are generally facing the status quo of equipment backwardness, which is a rather huge potential market." Chen Yawei proposed.
Rehabilitation equipment category
Since rehabilitation care can be carried out in hospitals and homes, what is the difference between the devices used in the two places? A researcher from Shanghai Shuangji Medical Device Research Institute who did not want to be named gave the following answers: rehabilitation equipment according to treatment and exercise It can be divided into two categories: physiotherapy equipment and physical therapy equipment.
According to reports, physiotherapy equipment includes electrotherapy equipment that stimulates nerves and muscles, magnetic equipment, ultrasonic equipment, infrared, ultraviolet, laser and other optical equipment, mechanical prosthetics, electronic feedback equipment and various types of nursing beds.
"Physiotherapy equipment has certain difficulties, and some of them are high-tech products. They can only be used in hospitals through professional medical staff, according to the treatment and rehabilitation treatment," the researcher said.
The physical therapy device is also called a functional exercise device. If the human body has a disease, it can perform functional recovery training, and the body health can also be used for health care and exercise. It includes auxiliary walking exercisers, traction devices, massagers, orthoses, and living utensils such as wheelchairs. Runners, lumbar muscle trainers, grippers, and walkers and joints used by the elderly are fitness equipment.
Although there are many types, the data rate of rehabilitation equipment is not optimistic, less than 8%, from the data of the second National Disability Sample Survey (2006).
“The current data is definitely improved, but overall the utilization rate of rehabilitation equipment for the disabled is still very low.†Chen Yawei said, “This is one of the reasons why people with disabilities are rarely seen in public places. Their travel is greatly restricted. ."
"With the improvement of people's health awareness and living standards, the use of rehabilitation medical devices to obtain more elderly and disabled people will inevitably become a general trend, and the sales of rehabilitation equipment have also maintained a rising curve." Beijing Rehabilitation Home Medical Device Chain Management Bo Yi, chairman of the board of directors of the China Medical Materials Association, said that “the sales volume of home medical equipment in the rehabilitation home has maintained a 50% annual growth rate in recent years.â€
Potential? Challenge? Â
At the same time of rapid growth, Bai Wei also raised the problem of insufficient investment in domestic rehabilitation equipment. "Although the demand for rehabilitation equipment has increased rapidly, the number of large-scale rehabilitation equipment manufacturers in China is small, and there is still a big gap compared with the United States and Germany." Bai Wei believes that this also shows that China's rehabilitation equipment industry has broad prospects for development. .
The development of an industry is inseparable from the state's input, the cultivation of talents, the cooperation of sales and production, and the support of policies. Chen Yawei said that the standards for national standards, industry standards and facilities standards introduced in the field of rehabilitation equipment in China are very complete, and the standardization system for rehabilitation equipment has been basically established. "However, how to develop the medium and high-end market of rehabilitation equipment and improve the research and development capabilities require the government and enterprises. Work together."
While improving the utilization rate of rehabilitation equipment and increasing investment in manpower and financial resources, it is also necessary to increase the publicity of popular science popularization among the masses. "Products sold in the market, some consumers do not know or do not understand, information asymmetry will hinder the use of equipment, communication barriers between the supply and marketing sides need to be broken." Chen Yawei used the flash doorbell to serve the deaf elderly, for example, listed several in the market A rare service device.
The number of elderly people and people with disabilities is huge, but when the potential energy of these factors can become a driving force for the development of rehabilitation equipment, Liu Mingyu said: "The point of explosion is still unclear." The acceptance and purchasing ability of products are also user-selected. Constraints on the purchase of rehabilitation equipment. “Only from a commercial perspective, market segmentation may lead to rapid development of rehabilitation devices, such as rehabilitation devices for postpartum and postoperative operations.â€
"Rehabilitation equipment needs to achieve large-scale development, government, charitable organizations, NGOs, the transfer of advanced technology in other fields, the development of popular science education, all levels of work need to be carried out." Liu Mingyu said, when domestic rehabilitation equipment It is still necessary to wait and see the explosion.
Source: Chinese Journal of Science
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