Rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson's disease.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. In our research for patients with PD, they were having trouble with posture disorder, gait disorder, fatigue and constipation. And almost of them have gotten some exercise to keep their health and felt beneficial effect of exercise. Rehabilitation for patients with PD is one of standard therapies of PD and includes stretching, muscle training, exercise using external cueing strategies and walking. Recently, the exercise effect includes the report of the effect on PD progression. It is important that we confirm the needs of patients with PD and start rehabilitation at an early stage to prevent movement disorder.