Cerebrovascular accident, commonly known as “stroke”, is a group of diseases with acute onset of cerebral blood circulation disorders, mainly occurring in middle-aged and elderly people, and becoming one of the three major causes of human death, together with heart disease and cancer. With the development of medical treatment, the mortality rate of cerebrovascular disease in the acute stage has dropped significantly, but the disability rate has gradually increased, which is related to the patients not receiving timely and effective rehabilitation treatment. Domestic survey data show that more than 90% of stroke patients have sequelae, and 70% of patients’ quality of life is obviously affected, which brings great mental and physical pain to the patients themselves and also increases the burden of society and families. Many people mistakenly believe that it does not matter whether the patient has recovered from the dangerous period or not, as long as the life is preserved, the effect of using drugs and letting him/her recover by himself/herself is almost the same. Many patients miss the best rehabilitation period because of the lack of timely rehabilitation training, resulting in abnormal movement patterns and complications, which seriously affect their quality of life and even endanger their lives due to complications. The treatment objectives of early stroke rehabilitation are to prevent complications and secondary damage, including pressure sores, respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections and deep vein thrombosis; timely detection of complications such as unilateral space neglect; prevention of joint contracture; if the joint is braked for more than 3 weeks, the loose connective tissue of the muscles and joints will change into dense connective tissue, leading to joint contracture and deformation; and suppression of abnormal movement patterns and reconstruction of normal movement patterns. Early rehabilitation is a preparation for self-care in the later stages of life. The main means of rehabilitation are: physical therapy, exercise therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, swallowing therapy, psychotherapy and the application of orthopedic braces. Early physical rehabilitation therapy can promote lesion repair. The upper limb and hand function are also crucial for self-care and labor, because many daily activities require hand dexterity, coordination and fine movements, such as eating, combing hair, writing and dressing. In addition, stroke patients are often accompanied by psychological and cognitive disorders, and their families often do not understand this pathological state and consider the patients as “lazy” and ignore them, or even reprimand them or scold them. The incidence of post-stroke depression can be reduced by proper care and attention of patients. One year after the onset of the disease, if no systematic rehabilitation treatment is carried out, patients are left with various sequelae to varying degrees, such as spasticity, muscle weakness, contracture deformity, abnormal walking posture, etc. At this time, rehabilitation training is not as effective as the early stage of the disease, but it is still possible to give full play to the compensatory role of the healthy side by training the residual function, when the recovery of the function of the affected side is impossible or poor. At the same time, improving the patient’s surroundings as much as possible to accommodate the disability can also enable the patient to obtain maximum self-care in daily life, while vocational rehabilitation training can be conducted to achieve the treatment goal of returning to society. Modern medicine focuses on the overall improvement of the patient’s quality of life, not just the assurance of life, therefore, it is very important to provide active prevention and early diagnosis and treatment of stroke and early rehabilitation.