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Dear Joyce, Sorry about the typing error, but I'm not used to uploading offline files. The sentence should read, "It does not alter rigidity or badykinesia significantly." So, this doesn't seem like the operation for you. I also suffer toe curling and cramping, mainly in the morning before my meds kick in, sometimes after lunch and late at night when I'm low on medication. It usually helps to sit down for a few minutes and rest. As far as Dr. Faull from New Zealand, I'm not sure is he is doing fetal transplants as he says in his speech that because of ethical issues associated with transplants and the fact that 2-4 fetuses are required for ach translplantation, he feels it is not practical for this technique to be adopted as a routine procedure for treating the Parkinson's patient. To quote from his speech, he says, "However, despite all of these problems and issues, the research that I have presented here and the preliminary results of clinical trials all show that there is a potential to help patients with PD and other neurological diseases by replacing brain cells that have died with cells that produce the same chemical. The replacement cells don't necessarily have to be fetal cells, they may in fact be cultured cells that have genetically engineered to either produce the deficient chemical or to produce chemicals that inhibit cell death and promote the survival of brain cells." Good luck. Celia Jones [log in to unmask]