Rehabilitation medicine is an emerging discipline in China. Since the term rehabilitation has long been widely used, people equate rehabilitation medicine with rehabilitation as originally understood, thus creating a lot of misunderstandings and affecting the development of rehabilitation medicine, and more importantly, many patients in need of rehabilitation have lost the opportunity for treatment. The target of rehabilitation medicine is mainly the disabled, chronic diseases and geriatric patients. The purpose of rehabilitation medicine is to adopt medical, engineering, social, educational and vocational means to alleviate the impact of disability and improve the function of patients so that they can return to the society. Rehabilitation medicine is a kind of humanized medicine, which is especially important in today’s world that focuses on the quality of life. Wang Qiang, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University At present, Chinese people have the following misunderstandings about rehabilitation medicine: 1. Rehabilitation means that the disease is cured and fully recovered: Rehabilitation means that the disease is cured in the minds of many people. For example, the words “wish you a speedy recovery” are often used as a blessing, and many hospitals also carry the name of rehabilitation, such as the Diabetes Rehabilitation Hospital and the Tumor Rehabilitation Hospital, etc. In fact, rehabilitation is the process in which a patient is cured of a disease and recovered from it. In fact, rehabilitation is in the patient due to disease caused by disability and functional decline, so that its function to achieve the maximum degree of recovery. 2.Rehabilitation is to exercise: People with this view believe that rehabilitation is very simple, on their own exercise, do not need technology, and even less willing to spend money. In fact, rehabilitation training belongs to the scope of medicine, not equal to physical exercise, because the theoretical basis of rehabilitation training, including functional anatomy, physiology, behavior, psychology, kinesiology, dynamics and other medical expertise; in addition, rehabilitation services are sick patients, at any time there will be changes in their condition, and can not be in accordance with the sports training to treat them. By no medical knowledge of people training patients, may cause undue damage to patients. 3, rehabilitation is acupuncture, massage, massage, physiotherapy: acupuncture, massage, massage, physiotherapy is only part of the content of rehabilitation medicine, called traditional rehabilitation, more modern rehabilitation medicine treatment means such as: neurodevelopmental therapy, motor learning therapy, forced use of sports therapy and other therapeutic techniques, after a large number of clinical practice at home and abroad shows that the efficacy of modern rehabilitation is better than the traditional rehabilitation therapy. Therefore, modern rehabilitation therapy and traditional rehabilitation therapy should be combined with each other and complement each other’s strengths.