As femoral head ischemic necrosis has a complex course, if not receiving timely and effective treatment, femoral head will cave in, the clearance of joint will be narrowed and in the end, the patient will suffer osteoarthritis, dysfunction of hip joint and disability. Therefore, the treatment of femoral head necrosis is still a difficult problem at home and abroad for the time being.
Femoral head necrosis and ankylosing spondylitis are two key specialties of Beiya Orthopaedics Hospital. Through years’ clinical practice, Beiya R&D team led by Prof. Xiao Zhengquan, the successor of nine-generation Xiao’s TCM family has created “3 Tonifies and 1 Promote” therapy to treat femoral head necrosis, thus forming three sharp swords for treatment of femoral head necrosis: treatment with Xiao’s characteristic TCM, Beiya characteristic rehabilitation treatment and treatment through modern high-tech operations, and ending the history that the only option for sufferers of femoral head necrosis is to replace femoral head through operation and take pain killer. In addition, Beiya has created a digital evaluation system to evaluate curative effect, comprehensively raising the curative effect on femoral head necrosis.

First sword: treatment with Xiao’s characteristic TCM
Beiya R&D base studies the pharmacology and pathology of Chinese traditional medicines which have been proved with good curative effect by generations of Xiao’s physicians through plentiful clinical cases. On this basis, the base uses modern pharmaceutical technology to extract and refined them into various forms of drugs, such as: prescriptions, patent medicines and injection solutions. The medicinal materials used are all pure TCM preparations which are safe for administration and have no side effect. With the official approval by Beijing Drug Administration, the hospital now has more than 20 kinds of characteristic drugs with proprietary IPR, including Blood Circulation Promoting and Osteogenic Ointment, Osteogenic Capsule, Eucommia Bone Reinforcing Capsule and Bone Invigorating and Blood Stasis Removing Granule.
Drug efficacies: tonify kidney, strengthen bone, promote blood circulation, dredge channels, dispel cold and stop pain. They are used to treat asthenic kidney yang, haunch and knee atony, cold coagulation and blood stasis and tackle clinical manifestations after femoral head necrosis, such as: weakness of lower limbs, hip pain, swelling, limitation of movement, cold limbs, and intolerance to cold. They have made breakthrough during the treatment of femoral head necrosis.

Second sword: Beiya characteristic rehabilitation treatment
Beiya Orthopaedics Hospital gives full play to drugs’ efficacies through various means such as TCM five-element steam, hologram TCM channel relaxation, Xiao’s TCM osmosis and body fluid circulation and applies international advanced high-frequency endogenetic heat filed technology, ESWT and multifunction lesion rehabilitation therapy to work out the most effective and fast treatment solutions addressing different patients.
1. TCM Five-Element Steam Therapy
Skin is the largest organ of human body and possesses such physiological functions as protection, sense, regulation of body temperature, absorption, secretion, excretion and metabolism. Considering the characteristics of skin, Xiao’s Medicine incorporates ancestral TCM into bath. Through heating, capillary vessels of the whole body will expand, and the steam containing a considerable amount of TCM ingredients will enter the whole body through skin to promote blood circulation of whole body, dissolve micro vascular thrombus of femoral head, and make Qi and blood running, meridians unobstructed, and circulation smooth, thus realizing the goal of disease treatment.
2. Hologram TCM Channel Relaxation Therapy
In this therapy, we use Xiao’s ancestral secret TCM prescription to soak local areas and deliver drugs from Yongquan Point. Xiao’s Medicine hologram therapy believes the overall illness information of a human body can be observed from one point, and Yongquan Point is an important point of kidney meridian and hidden in the soles of feet from which we can observe the information of the whole body. Based on this theory, drugs of ancestral secret TCM prescription are delivered from Yongquan Point according to Xiao’s Medicine. This therapy can promote blood circulation of the whole body, dredge channels of lower limbs, dissolve micro vascular thrombus and promote blood circulation. It achieves a cure by approaching from point.
3. Xiao’s TCM Osmotherapy
In this therapy, we adopt Xiao’s ancestral secret prescription for external use, apply high and new cell disruption technology with ultra fine granules, deliver drugs through local targeting, give play to the transdermal ability of ultra fine TCM granules and use infrared transdermal new technology in the meantime. Drugs are locally delivered through urgent pulse point directly to disease location. The therapy can promote in-depth blood circulation of tissues, increase local blood metabolic speed, dissolve small and medium vascular thrombus in deeper layer of femoral head and rebuild collateral blood circulation surrounding femoral head, thus realizing the efficacies of dispelling wind and cold, relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, invigorating pulse, stopping pain and promoting restoration.
4. Beiya Body Fluid Circulation Therapy
This therapy adopts Western Medicine’s body fluid circulation theory and uses various kinds of intravenous TCM injection solutions to effectively improve blood circulation, regulate internal and external balance and ionic balance, and promote internal circulation of bone tissues. This therapy can promote phagocyte to clear away dead bone cells, creating space condition for the formation of new bone cells and benign circulation condition for the growth of bone cells. It facilitates a cure from veins.
5. Beiya HF Implosive Therapy
In this therapy, we adopts Xiao’s ancestral secret prescription for external use, apply high and new cell disruption technology with ultra fine granules, deliver drugs through local targeting and combine world advanced technology of HF endogenetic heat field to create high-frequency endogenetic heat field inside the bone tissue of femoral head, promote the reconstruction of bone vessels inside femoral head, accelerate the metabolic speed of bone cells in femoral head, dissolve tiny vascular thrombus inside femoral head, absorb dead bone and form new bone cells, thus realizing a cure from inside the bone tissue of femoral head.
6. ESWT
Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) is to extracorporeally concentrate the shock waves generated from ESWT device on the healing location to treat diseases of skeletal and muscular system such as femoral head necrosis, bone non-union, calcific tendonitis of shoulders, delayed union of broken bone, shoulder periarthritis, pain of tennis elbows and heels, and plantar fasciitis. This method is characterized by non-invasion, small tissue lesion and great curative effect. Therapeutic principle: mainly rely on two principles: physical effect and biological effect. The powerful focalized shock waves can stimulate and activate osteoblast and mesenchymal cells, improve blood cell’s oxygen absorbing function and accelerate micro-circulation. The stimulation and permeation of mechanical waves may loosen and release tissue adhesion, and improve local blood circulation. Its biological action and physiological effect can remarkably bate pain. This method is characterized by non-invasion, small tissue lesion and great curative effect.
7. Multi-function Lesion Rehabilitation Therapy
In this therapy, we optimally establish multiple groups of treatment models as per actual clinical conditions, adopt state-of-the-art rotary interference electric field and piezoelectric effect and introduce microwave treatment function at the same time. Microwave combining with rotary interference electric field can effectively kill focus bacteria, improve blood circulation of tissues, promote the absorption of exudates and accelerate tissue restoration. Computerized control realizes a multi-procedure prescription and treatment model and achieves the functions of diminishing inflammation and swelling, easing pain, promoting local blood movement and lymph circulation and regulating nerves, thus alleviating clinical symptoms of tissue lesion and promoting recovery from diseases.

Third sword: treatment through modern high-tech operations
1. Core decompression: core decompression caters for some patients with early-stage femoral head necrosis characterized by too high pressure inside the femoral head. In this case, the femoral head has sound appearance, but the venous or arterial vessels of the femoral head are blocked by thrombus. As a result, the blood circulation of the femoral head is obstructed, dropsy inside the femoral head occurs, internal pressure increases significantly and the patient feels sharp pain. In this stage, if the patient receives a decompression operation by drilling a hole into marrow core of the affected femoral head, the internal pressure of the femoral head will be released immediately, dropsy of bone tissues will disappear and the sharp pain will disappear immediately. However, this operation is unsuitable for people with middle/late-stage femoral head necrosis or collapsed femoral head, people whose cartilage of femoral head is broken, and people whose femoral head is necrotic in a large area.
2. Autologous stem cell transplantation: a range of high-tech means are adopted to develop bone marrow stem cells into normal osteocytes by making use of stem cell’s autologous chemotactic and differential function. The generated osteocytes will be transplanted to the area of necrotic cells at femoral head, thus restoring the normal structure and function of femoral head and accelerating the clinical cure of femoral head necrosis. This technology has definite curative effect and can cure early-stage femoral head necrosis.
3. Artificial joint replacement:
(1) Material and design of artificial joints: an artificial joint constitutes two major parts: the first part is ball (i.e. head) which is made of the best, firmest and smoothest alloy. For the sake of installation and fixation, a rod-shaped body is designed below the ball. It can be inserted into the cavity of the upper segment of human’s femur (thighbone) and tightly cling to femur. The other part is acetabula. Its internal layer is made of highly wearable UHMWPE (ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene) pad. The surface of the internal layer is very smooth. The acetabula and the metal ball form a very smooth and wearable artificial hip joint with desirable activity. Laboratory test indicates the use life of acetabular and femoral head prostheses is 15-20 years in general.
(2) Indications of artificial joint replacement: if your hip joint has a rather long history of pain, the pain starts to affect your normal walk, you even have to cripple around and shorten your walking distance, sometimes you feel painful or more painful when you go downstairs or upstairs or stand up from a chair, these symptoms are not alleviated after conservative treatment, and they have seriously affected your work and life, our expert will tell you after careful check of X-ray photo and physical examination: “I am afraid you will need an operation for artificial joint displacement”. Artificial hip joint replacement doesn't have many contraindications which mainly include local and systemic infection, serious heart and lung diseases and other systemic diseases. Excessive obesity is a relative contraindication for this operation. Besides, the operation has certain risks, for example: infection, joint dislocation and lower limb deep venous thrombus. But all these risks can be removed through taking some special preventive measures. Beiya Orthopaedics Hospital has international advanced vertical laminar-flow operating room which can minimize the quantity of bacteria in the room and effectively control the temperature, humidity and dust amount in the room, thus realizing an ideal operation environment, reducing after-operation infection rate and raising operation quality. The level of cleanliness of the operating room reaches Class 100, significantly enhancing the safeness of the operation. Meanwhile, the background music system in the room can relax patients from tense mood.
In a word, no matter whether you are young or old, you must try our first two sharp swords at first. They have made countless people who used to struggle in pain stand up on their feet. However, if your illness has developed to a very serious state and conservative treatment can’t achieve a desirable effect, please don’t hesitate to try our third sharp sword. In essence, after the operation, you will become younger and more confident in yourself and can resume previous life and do normal labor and work.
“3 Tonifies and 1 Promote” therapy and “stem cell transplantation technology” are both advanced hip joint retention and reconstruction technologies in the world. They are drawing attention from world academic circles and stay in the leading position in the world. The experts, technologies and environment here are all first rate in the world. If you desire a quality life, please pay attention to Beijing Beiya Orthopaedics Hospital. We will satisfy every patient with femoral head necrosis.