In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in publicity about rehabilitation medicine, which is often mentioned when people seek medical treatment. As a unique discipline with specialized technology, the development of rehabilitation medicine in China is only 30 years old and most people still lack understanding. Misconceptions of patients and their relatives Some relatives think that they are responsible for the patients’ disabilities, so they take care of the patients wholeheartedly, and the patients naturally rely on others’ care completely, and they lack the awareness and skills of self-care, so that their social functions are diminished or they are completely detached from the social life. From the perspective of rehabilitation medicine, basic activities of daily living (ADL) is one of the main purposes of rehabilitation. As the patient’s relatives should work together with the rehabilitation medical staff to guide, train and encourage the patient’s self-care ability, and the living ability and skills will only get stronger. Gregory Burns (Chinese name Bu Jinhui), the U.S. Paralympic swimming champion, was born with poliomyelitis (polio) at 9 months old, paralyzed in both lower limbs (the muscle strength of both lower limbs is almost zero, relying solely on the strength of the upper limbs, torso muscles, waist and back muscles, and abdominal muscles), and most patients in China with his disability rely on wheelchairs to move around and are unable to live without the care of others. And under the guidance of Bu Jinhui’s mother, he learned to exercise himself and challenge life from a young age. Three times won the Paralympic Games swimming gold medal, he relied on both lower limbs long leg braces and crutches support, has climbed China’s Mount Lushan, Mount Huangshan, Mount Tai and the Himalayas and other famous mountains, not only traveled thousands of miles but also along the way to create a few hundred paintings and photographs, published a collection of personal works. 2, rehabilitation means of treatment misconceptions often hear people say that rehabilitation is acupuncture and massage, many patients do seek acupuncture and massage treatment of hemiplegia and other disabilities, some people after years of treatment results are not good, and thus the rehabilitation treatment will be skeptical. As we all know, foreign rehabilitation medicine or physical medicine and rehabilitation began to develop and grow after the two world wars, in which the rehabilitation training is a unique technology, including physical ability training (PT), operational ability training (OT) and speech and swallowing function training (ST) three series, and each series has a specialized treatment technology, for example, PT includes muscle strength, joint mobility, trunk core muscles, balance, mobility, walking, and other skills. For example, PT includes muscle strength, joint mobility, core muscles of the body, balance, mobility, walking ability, safety and protection ability (fall prevention and get up after fall training) and the ability to use assistive devices (including prostheses, braces, wheelchairs), cardiorespiratory function training, and so on. At present, China has more than a hundred medical schools to open a rehabilitation therapist professional, the State Ministry of Labor and Social Security has also long been the rehabilitation therapist licensing examination. Formal rehabilitation training is an interactive process in which the patient actively participates under the guidance of a physician, which is conducive to the development of the patient’s potential, the alleviation of the state of disability, and the improvement of the quality of life. Acupuncture and massage, the patient is passive, must be positioned to wait for treatment, so some patients after several years of massage and acupuncture, but still can not return to society, it is clear that acupuncture and massage does not represent the rehabilitation treatment. 3, rehabilitation treatment goal of the misunderstanding I have seen a polio double lower limb paralyzed patients, when he set off under the charitable donations rehabilitation journey, all the people wish him after rehabilitation can be the same as normal people to walk, run and jump, he is also full of confidence, looking forward to through the rehabilitation marvelous turn for the normal people. As a rehabilitation medicine worker, I promptly explained to him that rehabilitation could not change the reality of disability, but it could change his physical function and ability to minimize the impact of disability. Since he was incompletely paralyzed, rehabilitation training and rehabilitation works (lower limb support, walker, walking cane, etc.) helped him to resume indoor or community walking. Even if some patients are not able to resume walking, they are equally able to lead a healthy, satisfying, successful and competitive life and return to society through the support of rehabilitation medicine. The World Paralympics illustrates this point, as according to the Paralympic rules, all sports will be graded according to the type and degree of the athlete’s disability in order to ensure fair competition and safe games in sport. Physically disabled people are categorized into three types according to their disabilities: amputation and other disabilities, spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. Among them, physically disabled persons with spinal cord injury participate in the following sports: calisthenics, chess, track and field, swimming, weightlifting, archery, shooting, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair table tennis, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair dancing and so on. We see people with disabilities wearing artificial limbs flying on the track or fighting in the swimming pool with their mutilated limbs, etc. They realize their goal of being faster, higher and stronger without being able to change their disabilities. 4. Misconceptions on the path of finding rehabilitation Many patients think that the rehabilitation treatment in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou is regular, so they do not travel far or thousands of miles to seek medical treatment and spend a lot of money. China’s rehabilitation medicine after decades of development, the current domestic tertiary general hospitals generally established rehabilitation medicine, for many patients to provide standardized rehabilitation medical services, it can be said with certainty that the “North” rehabilitation medicine development is indeed located in the forefront of the domestic rehabilitation process should be difficult to turn to the experts. I met a patient from Hunan in Beijing who had consulted Hunan Xiangya Medical College for other problems, but did not realize that there was a good rehabilitation department there. Nowadays, with the high development of information technology, it is recommended that patients can learn more about their needs through “Health News”, “Health News”, and the portals of major hospitals, and even talk to specialists to improve the efficiency of medical treatment and reduce unnecessary costs. Here, we also want to draw the attention of patients and their families to solve or make good use of the resources around them, such as the patient’s mobility tools, home environment or living environment modification, so that it is more suitable for patients to live and exercise self-care ability, the famous American basketball player Jordan’s jumping guandan blue action is world-famous, and the action training began in the backyard of the home of his father’s homemade basketball hoop.