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Volume 1, Issue 3, Supplement , Pages S42-S48 , March 2009

Rehabilitation Interventions in Parkinson Disease

  • Alex Moroz, MD

      Affiliations

    • NYU School of Medicine, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York, NY†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: A.M.
    • ,
  • Steven R. Edgley, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT‡
    • ,
  • Henry L. Lew, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Harvard Medical School, VA Boston Healthcare System, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, Boston, MA§
    • ,
  • John Chae, MD

      Affiliations

    • Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
    • ,
  • Lisa A. Lombard, MD

      Affiliations

    • Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA∥
    • ,
  • Cara Camiolo Reddy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA#
    • ,
  • Keith M. Robinson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical and Rehabilitation, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA⁎⁎

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