Table 1.

The aims of rehabilitation on Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms.

Aim	Implications for Rehabilitation
Reacquisition of automatic movements	Teaching to utilize PFC instead of basal ganglia through volitional control to regulate movement
Improve impaired ability to acquire and express habitual-automatic actions	Repetition and practice of actions supported by DRT management
Motor learning	Motor learning-based rehabilitation in addition to DRT
Avoid compulsive DRT use	Rehabilitation in off period using correct levodopa dose

Abbreviations: DRT, dopamine replacement therapy; PFC, Pre-frontal cortex.