Guidelines for Convalescent Rehabilitation

Unlike hospitals, which focus on treating disease, sanatoriums focus on prevention before illness and rehabilitation after it, making them an indispensable link in the national health-maintenance chain and an important part of China's medical and health work. Through long-term practice, sanatoriums have become the "main battlefield" for prevention and rehabilitation and have also driven the development of the disciplines of prevention and rehabilitation. Sanatorium rehabilitation is an important component of sanatology, a medical discipline that focuses on comprehensive rehabilitation through the combined application of multiple therapies based on sanatorium factors, eliminating and alleviating functional impairment, compensating for and rebuilding lost function, and seeking to improve and enhance all aspects of human function.\nFor historical reasons, China's sanatoriums face problems including inconsistent understanding, low development quality, imprecise functional positioning, and uneven rehabilitation pathways and technical standards, which have affected and constrained the healthy development of sanatorium rehabilitation.\nTo provide working guidance for sanatoriums and practitioners, standardize industry standards, and promote the development of the field, under the leadership of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine and the guidance of People's Medical Publishing House, our Sanatorium Rehabilitation Professional Committee organized sanatorium experts from major units and institutions nationwide and across the military to compile the Guiding Principles for Sanatorium Rehabilitation. This guide systematically summarizes valuable experience in sanatorium prevention and sanatorium rehabilitation and, to align with the Rehabilitation Series, highlights content on sanatorium rehabilitation.