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Listfriends, I am in my 10th year of PD, and my family doctor, wonderful man that he is, has prescribed weekly full-body massage for me, to relieve severe muscle and joint pains due to PD-related dystonia and stiffness. Unfortunately, I cannot afford private insurance. I am "not working," and therefore, I am on medicaid and medicare. Meanwhile, the massage is wonderfully helpful, but also is too expensive to continue, without medicaid and/or medicare coverage. This coverage has so far been refused by Maine Medicaid. We plan to appeal this decision. Suggestions from those of you with relevant experience, especially to help us to document the importance of massage therapy for PD, would be greatly appreciated. You may write my doctor, my massage therapist and me at the following address: Thank you! Ivan Suzman, PWP.......Dr. Bruce Kenney, DO....Jason Rounds, LMT 16 Back Cove Estates Portland, Maine 04103