Pingtung County is Taiwan's third-largest agricultural county, with as much as 42% of its population engaged in agriculture, amounting to approximately 380,000 people. Moreover, because many young people from Pingtung work outside the region, the agricultural population is gradually aging.

In Pingtung, these hardworking individuals in agriculture often face significant spinal degeneration due to improper use of their spines and nervous systems from years of strenuous work and production with great effort. Additionally, due to their hard work and endurance, they have a high tolerance for pain. By the time they experience spinal problems, their condition is usually quite, or even significantly, advanced before they seek further treatment at the hospital. In recent years, as the economy has stabilized and nutritional standards have improved, issues related to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have also increased.

To address the spinal and brain health of the people of Pingtung, Pingtung Christian Hospital has invested in the best equipment and developed the best neurosurgery team to improve these issues.

Currently, Pingtung Christian Hospital's neurosurgery department has recruited fully trained attending physicians from Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Taipei Municipal Wanfang Hospital, and Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. Collaborating together, their areas of expertise cover a wide range of neurosurgical conditions, including:
◆Spinal trauma and spinal diseases
◆Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar fractures, spinal cord injuries, and degenerative spinal diseases
◆Microsurgery for degenerative cervical and lumbar diseases (using a surgical microscope, which is currently the highest grade in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung region)
◆Treatments for slipped disc, spinal stenosis, and sciatica, including microsurgery, endoscopic surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, ultrasound-guided radiofrequency therapy for pain control, local spinal injections for pain relief, epidural injections for pain control, vertebral body stenting (VBS), artificial disc replacement, and vertebroplasty
◆Peripheral neuropathies, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and cubital tunnel syndrome
◆Central nervous system tumors: various intracranial tumors (brain tumors) and spinal column and spinal cord tumors
◆Intracerebral hemorrhage and stroke
◆Head injuries, including skull fractures, penetrating head wounds, intracranial hemorrhages (epidural hematoma, subdural hematoma, cerebral contusions with brain hemorrhage), chronic subdural hematoma, as well as craniotomy for decompression, brain microsurgery, brain tumor removal, intracranial pressure monitoring, hydrocephalus treatment, subdural fluid drainage, and skull defect repairs.