Mr. Chia suffers from spondylitis, a condition which often causes pain in his lower back and stiffness in his spine, making movement difficult. Treatment requires a long-term course of medication. When Mr. Chia recently visited the doctors at the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, his primary doctor recommended that he also see a doctor of Chinese medicine and undergo the hospital's new "In-Patient Treatment of Spondylitis Using TCM."
賈先生罹患了僵直性脊椎炎，常感到下背痛、脊椎僵硬和運動不便，必須長期服藥，最近他在林口長庚紀念醫院就診時，主治的醫師提議他接受一位中醫師會診，以及院內一套新推出的「僵直性脊椎炎中醫住院照護」方案。