title: Exercise training and Parkinson's disease: placebo or essential treatment?
abstract: Exercise training is often recommended for patients who have Parkinson's disease. Until the debate about the pathophysiologic cause of impaired movement in parkinsonism is settled, it is difficult to develop a specific exercise treatment for symptoms that include hypokinesia, tremor, and muscular rigidity. Most of the published studies show a benefit of exercise training, and we provide an overview of the most essential studies and present conclusions for a practical approach to exercise training in parkinsonism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS, UK. l.reuter@iop.kcl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Reuter
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Engelhardt