Objective According to the relevant literatures recorded in the CNKI bibliographic database from January 1994 to December 2007,research and application situation of exercise therapy have been investigated and analyzed.Methods Searched for"exercise therapy"in the MeSH and found 25,691 articles.In order to enhance the relevance of the literature search.limited"exercise therapy"being searched by"title search"and got 1102 articles.Results This article introduced the history and researching situation of exercise therapy,and made an investigation on the number of articles in the CNKI bibliographic database of previous 14 years and the number of articles on the top 10 diseases treated with exercise therapy.We found the largest amount of articles on exercise therapy was dealt with diabetic disease.Conclusion Exercise therapy can help to treat diseases caused by bad living habits.