[Rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson disease]

The treatment of patients with Parkinson disease should consist of early, complex and continuous rehabilitation connected with reasonable drug therapy. Rehabilitation carried out in hospital, rehabilitation center, sanatorium and outpatient rehabilitation clinic enables better education of patients and their families. Patients' self-consciousness of necessity of continuous daily physical activity at home has a great influence on the length and quality of their life. Physical activity is the best way of prevention of disability and secondary complications caused by immobilization in movement and other systems. It improves also patients' protective forces. Rehabilitation, on the contrary to drug therapy, is cheep, has no adverse effects and can be carried out at home. I this paper are presented the following principles of complex rehabilitation: patients' self-education of Parkinson disease, the proper way of life and work as well as the most effective ways of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and art therapy.