Editorial Rehabilitation Procedures in the Management of Parkinson’s Disease

Copyright © 2015 Alessandro Picelli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive neu-rodegenerative condition characterized by a progressive depletion of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta [1]. It affects approximately 7 million, pri-marily elderly, people worldwide [2]. Motor cardinal signs of PD include bradykinesia, rigidity, resting tremor, and pos-tural instability, as well as deterioration of muscle strength, cardiorespiratory fitness, performance of balance, gait, and mobility tasks [2–4]. In addition to motor symptoms, people with PD may suffer from nonmotor complications such as sensory complaints, autonomic dysfunction, fatigue, apathy, sleep disturbances, depression, and cognitive decline (i.e.