Parkinson Platform Noord Nederland

In an era of evidence-based medicine, the value of rehabilitative therapies in Parkinson's disease has been difficult to establish. Although experts in movement disorders routinely aver the merits of, and recommend, such interventions to their patients, randomised trials have often yielded contradictory, few, or non-generalisable results (eg, as evident in the systematic review1 of the effectiveness of Nordic walking in Parkinson's disease). The reasons for such heterogeneity of conclusions have been extensively discussed,2 but the remedies are not self-evident.