Abstract: Objective To investigate the present situation of institutes of rehabilitation medicine in Guangxi. Methods From March to July, 2015, all 287 hospitals in Guangxi were investigated with the Human Resource Statistics of Guangxi Rehabilitation Medicine Department and the Specialist Questionnaire of Guangxi Rehabilitation Medicine Department by E-mail through the local Health and Family Planning Commissions. Results There were 125 rehabilitation medicine departments with 2146 personnels in Guangxi, 0.2 therapists per bed in average. The proportion was 1∶0.725 for rehabilitative physicians to therapists; 1∶1.92∶3.14 for senior, intermediate and primary title for physicians; 1∶8∶63 for therapists and 1∶5.6∶18.9 for nurses. About 91.3% of the department of rehabilitation medicine was in the tertiary hospitals and was able to provide the services of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, swallowing rehabilitation, cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapy and rehabilitation engineering, and so on. Conclusion Rehabilitation has made a big progress compared with that in 2009 in Guangxi, in term of institutes, human resources and the service ability. However, the distribution of institutions and human resources remains unbalanced.

Key words: rehabilitation medicine, institutes, investigation, Guangxi