For patients with mild to moderate Parkinson disease (PD) there were no clinically meaningful benefits to activities of daily living or quality of life associated with physiotherapy and occupational therapy in a study conducted in the United Kingdom, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.
PD causes problems with activities of daily living (ADL) that are only partially treated by medication and occasionally surgery. Physiotherapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) have been traditionally used later in the disease.