TY - JOUR T1 - Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for people with Parkinson’s disease JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 148 LP - 149 DO - 10.1136/jnnp.74.2.148 VL - 74 IS - 2 AU - E D Playford Y1 - 2003/02/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/74/2/148.abstract N2 - Worse general and mental health for patients receiving rehabilitation? There is little evidence available to support or explain the role of rehabilitation in progressive neurological disorders, so the paper by Wade et al (this issue, page 158-162) is a welcome contribution.1 The paper examines whether patients with Parkinson’s disease have sustained benefit following a multidisciplinary outpatient rehabilitation programme. The programme comprised individualised multidisciplinary interventions and a group education programme and was delivered to six patients at a time over six weeks. The findings suggest that six months after randomisation those receiving rehabilitation had worse general and mental health and that their carers had a trend to more strain. This contrasts with findings … ER -