By Jim Morelli
WebMD Medical News Archives
June 20, 2000 --
Music. It does a body good. Physical therapy may help keep
Parkinson's disease patients limber, but now researchers have found
that music therapy may help them move faster -- and make them
happier. This is the first time that music therapy's effect on
Parkinson's has been objectively studied, the Italian researchers
say, and their results appear in the latest issue of the journal
Psychosomatic Medicine.