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Rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2004

Christopher D Ward
Affiliation:
Derby City General Hospital, Derby, UK
Dorothy Robertson
Affiliation:
The Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK

Extract

Rehabilitation can be described either as a set of technologies, akin to drug treatment, or as a person-centered process. We will use both frames of reference in this review. Our orientation in Part 1 will be technological, with initial consideration of the pathophysiology of parkinsonian impairments, before examining the rationale for non-drug interventions in Parkinson's disease (PD). In Part 2 we describe how the process of rehabilitation can be applied in a progressive disease such as PD.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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