Rehabilitation medicine, preventive medicine, health care medicine and clinical medicine are also called "four major medicines". It is a medical discipline to eliminate and alleviate people's dysfunction, make up for and rebuild people's functional defects, and strive to improve and enhance people's various functions, that is, prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, training and treatment of dysfunction. Exercise therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy are important contents and means of modern rehabilitation medicine.

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In 1980s, the theories and methods of modern rehabilitation medicine were introduced into China and combined with traditional rehabilitation medicine, which promoted the vigorous development of rehabilitation medicine in China. China Rehabilitation Medicine Research Association was founded on 1983. In the same year, the Ministry of Health issued a document requesting qualified medical colleges to offer rehabilitation medicine courses.

1987 10, the state science and technology commission approved that "China Rehabilitation Medicine Research Association" was renamed as "China Rehabilitation Medicine Association". A number of rehabilitation centers, hospitals and clinics have been established in various places to provide rehabilitation medical services for the disabled, the chronically ill and the elderly.

According to the data of 1992, China Rehabilitation Medical Association has established three secondary professional societies, including rehabilitation medical education, integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine, rehabilitation engineering and rehabilitation of senile diseases, and established branches in 23 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.

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