The invention provides a lifting desk control method including a motor drive unit, a current detection unit and an arithmetic unit. The control method comprises the steps of: detecting current a at the current time t1 and current b at time t2; calculating the current change rate L=(b−a)/(t2−t1); and comparing L with a set value, judging that an obstacle is encountered if the set value is exceeded, and issuing a stopping or retreating instruction to a motor by the motor drive unit. The scheme employed by the invention is to calculate the change rate of current, so judgment is made with higher accuracy and whether an obstacle is encountered is judged with high sensitivity.