With the rapid development of rehabilitation medicine and modern technology, rehabilitation medicine and equipment are becoming more and more advanced and sophisticated. Up to now, a lot of new technologies have been introduced into the rehabilitation field, such as virtual reality, computer networks, software engineering, and mechanical engineering. Combining the theoretical basis of rehabilitation medicine and national policies about rehabilitation, the authors analyzed the current status and future directions of the development of rehabilitation medicine and equipment from the following perspectives: technology integration, the fineness of function division, user-friendly design and medical informatization.