Femoral head necrosis is a common difficult and complicated disease in orthopaedic field. It is widely called a non-fatal cancer. For a long time, most people in the circle of orthopaedic science have been considering femoral head necrosis an incurable disease and the only way out is replacement of femoral head.
    In order to overcome femoral head necrosis, this hard nut in the world, more and more domestic and foreign scholars are devoting their energy to it and various kinds of treatment methods are introduced, for example: total hip replacement, bone grafting, vascular implantation, interventional operation, and “Beiya Eight-Combination Integrated Therapy” under the guidance of “3 Tonified and 1 Promote” theory. These methods have achieved good curative effect and relieve most patients with femoral head necrosis from pain.
    But, every treatment method has its limitation and pros and cons. How to correctly evaluate these methods and scientifically analyze their curative effect has once again become an attention focus of medical workers and the biggest concern of vast patients. At a number of influential national academic meetings for femoral head necrosis, experts made special discussion on how to evaluate the curative effect on femoral head necrosis and formulated some standards for evaluation of curative effect. However, they are not widely spread so far.
    Beijing Beiya Orthopaedics Hospital has made in-depth research on the treatment, prevention and healthcare of femoral head necrosis. It introduced a new theory named “3 Tonifies and 1 Promote” for treatment of femoral head necrosis in Guangming Daily in 1993. The theory won municipal first prize for science advancement for the hospital. At the same time, President Xiao Zhengquan also worked out “Xiao’s Nine-type Stage Treatment Methodology for Third-stage Femoral Head Necrosis” and “Xiao’s Evaluation Standard for Curative Effect on Femoral Head Necrosis”. This standard scientifically evaluates and judges the clinical curative effect on femoral head necrosis in line with international practice from four aspects, i.e.: “cure, obvious effect, with effect, and without effect”. At present, this standard has widely recognized by academic circle of orthopaedics.
    The evaluation of the curative effect on femoral head necrosis is a strict and systematic system. At present, many hospitals are unable to make clinical application as per this standard for the following two major reasons:
    1. The execution of this standard requires a range of precision equipment, such as: dual-energy narrow-angle bone densitometer, precision X-ray machine, CR and automatic biochemical analyzer.
    2. This evaluation is too strict to be achievable for ordinary hospitals. As the standard is set at a high level, it is very difficult for ordinary treatment methods to reach a desirable clinical curative effect in a short time, making many hospitals are reluctant to accept it as their standard for evaluation of curative effect.
    Many patients said the pain disappeared and they felt much better soon after they took medicines prescribed by a hospital, but a few months later, they took X-ray examination and found the state of disease didn't turn for the better but for the worse. Later, they knew the medicine contains a large amount of hormone.
    In order that patients can clearly understand the treatment they receive, Beiya Hospital further introduced a brand new concept named “digital evaluation" on the basis of the “evaluation standard for curative effect on femoral head necrosis”. We believe that the curative effect shall neither be the feeling of patients nor the subjective judgment of individual person or doctor. Instead, it shall be concluded based on the scientific data obtained from various kinds of examination and assay, because number is the most understandable expression. From 1 to 2, or 2 to 1, the simple change can be understood even by a 3-year-old child, but just such simple digital change reflects a trustworthy attitude at patients and medical science.
    At Beiya Orthopaedics Hospital, no doctor is allowed to make blind diagnosis or treatment merely after pulse feeling and a few simple functional checks. The hospital owns high-precision X-ray film machine, dual-energy narrow-angle fan-shaped bone densitometer, automatic immunity analyzer and other modern detection equipment. After accurate diagnosis, we will provide characteristic treatment with priority given to TCM, and then compare and analyze examination data and X-ray photos before and after treatment. If the effect is not good, patients can immediately know it after a simple look at the photos!
   ?In order to lighten patient's economic burden, Beiya Hospital accepts the laboratory and examination results from any large AAA hospital, a move to avoid repeated examination. We also encourage patients who are suspicious of us to exchange ideas with other patients in the ward, encourage them to make examination at other Grade-3 hospitals and ask renowned experts to compare the data obtained between and after treatment, and guide patients checking medicine prescribed by us.
    In order to carry out R&D on technical bottlenecks and judge curative effect, we particularly appointed Prof. Wang Yunzhao who is the Chairman of Chinese Society of Medical Imaging and used to work at Jishuitan Hospital as our chief expert. He will come to our hospital on Tuesday to examine photos and provide consultation service. The judgment by sophisticated equipment and diagnosis by authoritative expert make our curative effect accepted by both patients and medical circles.