Aims
To promote clinical research on rehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease and help to accelerate the standardization of functional assessment and rehabilitation strategies and the spread of good clinical practice.
Goals
– To carry out clinical research studies ; in particular, to provide excellent foundations for multi-centre studies aimed at improving functional diagnosis and rehabilitation therapy of Parkinson’s disease. The network members should be qualified for conducting clinical trials, self-initialized research projects as well as epidemiological research. Furthermore, the network will support comparative studies, such as the analysis of health care strategies in all participating countries
– To identify and link to other European networks involved in clinical research in Parkinson’s disease in order to contaminate their scopes of improve the understanding of functional consequences of pharmacological and surgical treatment
Actions planned
To establish the infrastructure of a European clinical research.
Actions performed
In 20th European Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation.
Chairman
Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine – UNIVPM - Politecnica delle Marche University – Ancona, Italy
Head of Neurorehabilitation Clinic and Coordinator of the Movement Disorder Centre - Azienda Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona.