针刀医学是在中医基本理论指导下，吸收现代科技成果，包括西医学的新成果，再创造而形成的新的医学理论体系；经过30年的发展，形成了一套完整的理论体系，是中医在基本理论方面实现现代化的成功范例之一；包括四大基础理论和六大组成部分：四大基础理论是闭合性手术理论，慢性软组织损伤的病因病理学理论，骨质增生新的病因学理论，脊柱区带病因学及人体存在庞大的电生理线路的理论；六大组成部分是针刀医学病理生理学，针刀医学影像学，针刀医学手法学，针刀医学诊断学，针刀医学治疗学和针刀医学护理学；经过临床实践和深入研究，其理论不断深化，治疗技术逐渐提高，适应症范围不断扩大，形成了一门独特的医学新学科，为解决当今医学上的各种难题开辟了一条新路，在临床研究和实验研究方面取得了多项成果。

Under the guidance of the basic theories of TCM, acupotomology adopts the outcomes of modem science and technology including western medicine, and brings forward a new medical theory. Acupotomology is the fruit of 30-year researches and has formed a new complete theoretical system. It is one of the successful examples which have realized modernization in the basic theories of TCM. It include four basic theories and six parts. The four basic theories include the theory of closed operation, the etiology and pathology of chronic soft issue injury, the new etiology of hyperosteogeny, the etiology of spinal area and the theory of the electrophysiological conducting system existed in the human body. The six parts are the physiopathology of acupotomology, the imageology of acupotomology, the manipulation of acupotomology, the diagnostics of acupotomology, the therapeutics of acupotomology and the nursing theory of acupotomology. With many doctors， clinical practice and reseachers' deep reseach, the theories of acupotomology go on deepening and the technique is improving. The field of indication increases gradually and it has formed a unique medical subject and opens up a new road for solving various medical difficulties.