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The Place of Rehabilitation Medicine

Rehabilitation hospitals are important. With the development of society, people's living standards, as well as the progress of medicine and health care, resulting in serious social aging, chronic diseases, psychological and mental disorders, lower death rate, disability rate, as well as traffic accidents, work-related injuries, etc., in order to improve the quality of their lives, the need for rehabilitation treatment, and more importantly, the need for early rehabilitation.

The World Health Organization has taken rehabilitation medicine, clinical medicine, preventive medicine and health care medicine as the basic functions of modern hospitals. And our country since the early 80's the introduction of modern rehabilitation medicine, and with the traditional rehabilitation combined, so the rehabilitation medical institutions or rehabilitation medicine, generally both Western physicians, nurses and rehabilitation therapists, but also Chinese medicine related personnel, so it is an emerging cross-discipline, is the model of the combination of Chinese and Western medicine medicine. Because of the late start of rehabilitation medicine in China, most people and even doctors are not familiar with, do not understand.