What is the role of rehabilitation medicine

Many people or families may encounter such a situation, a sudden stroke or car accident, work injury, the patient was sent to the hospital emergency, one or two weeks later, although the condition is stabilized, but can not speak, can not communicate with others; loss of limb function or weakening, resulting in impaired mobility, can not walk, daily life can not take care of themselves; ensuing in the production of interaction disorders, psychological disorders, etc., to the individual, the family, the community to bring a lot of inconvenience and How to solve these problems? How to solve these problems, since the beginning of the last century, nearly a hundred years, countless medical experts around the world, the results of efforts that the best way is to implement rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is known as the “fourth medicine” or “the fourth stage of medicine” and has a series of corresponding measures. The aim of rehabilitation is to restore the patient’s ability to perform daily activities through medical treatment, and ultimately to enable the patient to reintegrate into society and continue to live and work as a healthy member of society. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Medical Rehabilitation in 1981, “Rehabilitation refers to the application of measures to mitigate the effects of disability and to reintegrate disabled persons into society.” The word rehabilitation, translated from English, originally means “recovery”, “restoration of original power, qualification, status, dignity”, etc. It includes medical rehabilitation, educational rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation and social rehabilitation. Rehabilitation not only focuses on the disease itself, but also emphasizes the dysfunction caused by the disease, focusing on improving the quality of life and restoring the patient’s ability to live, learn and work independently. Rehabilitation medicine believes that the central nervous system has the ability to reorganize itself structurally or functionally after brain injury, and some neurons can be regenerated when conditions are suitable. Therefore, in rehabilitation therapy, the output is influenced by the input of normal motor function patterns, which promotes the formation of normal function patterns and achieves the maximum recovery of motor function. The intervention of rehabilitation therapy can significantly improve the motor function of patients. Rehabilitation medicine is a medical discipline dominated by dysfunction and aimed at restoring function and improving quality of life. Since the 1980s, China has made great progress with its unique combination of Chinese and Western medicine in rehabilitation medicine, which has converged with the trend of modern rehabilitation medicine in the world. The work of rehabilitation medicine includes rehabilitation prevention, rehabilitation evaluation and rehabilitation treatment, and constitutes four major medical disciplines together with health care medicine, preventive medicine and clinical medicine. Rehabilitation targets are people with injuries, acute and chronic diseases, functional disorders caused by old age, and people with disabilities caused by congenital developmental disorders. The main ones are: cerebrovascular accident, spinal cord injury (paraplegia), craniocerebral trauma, cerebral palsy, bone fracture, trauma to the locomotor organs, dysfunction after amputation and hand trauma, lumbar and leg pains, cervical spondylosis, post-burn scars, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, diabetes mellitus, obesity and so on.