The authors summarize Professor SHI Qi’s clinical experience in diagnosing and treating chronic tendon and bone disease. The specific diagnosing and treating thinking and methods could be summarized as follows: 1)Three stages

which means chronic tendon and bone disease could be treated according to early

medium and late stages. 2) Three differentiations

which include differentiating disease

type and syndrome. 3) Three examining

which include seeing patient clearly

reading the disease and getting the key point. In addition

Prof. SHI emphasizes threepoint syndrome differentiation which means the combination of the lesion’ s target

peri-target and whole syndrome characteristics differentiation. In the process of treatment

Prof. SHI emphasizes three methods combination of herb

technique and breathing technique. Both internal and external treatments should be used. Prof. SHI advocates that the control strategy should be the prevention

treatment and recuperation integration concept

including preventing disease

early treatment to prevent deterioration and preventing reoccurrence after cure.