Sports rehabilitation and health specialty is a new frontier discipline combining sports, health and medicine. In 2005, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was first opened in national medical colleges, which made up for the shortage of fitness and rehabilitation talents in China. This major is a new interdisciplinary major of physical education and medicine established to meet the needs of society for health and rehabilitation. It mainly studies the relationship between exercise and health.

This major adapts to the needs of modern development. On the basis of mastering the basic knowledge of sports human science, basic medicine and clinical medicine, it systematically grasps the basic theory, basic skills, basic methods and related knowledge of sports rehabilitation and health, and becomes a senior rehabilitation therapist with certain development potential, innovative spirit and strong practical ability.