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Following a bout with a high fever in 1986, I had a bursitis-like frozen left shoulder that lasted for at least six months. I also had a stiff-at-the-knee left leg that lasted for about two months. Both of these conditions diminished with regular exercise in my pool. A slight occasional tremor replaced the stiffness in both limbs. 3 years later I was diagnosed as Parkinsonian because of cogwheel rigidity of my left arm when I went to a family physician for a recurrence of the shoulder problem. I had access to Medline at the time and found a single Canadian reference to frozen shoulders in which the author proposed "Frozen Shoulder Syndrome" as evidence of PD Amen Patrick Martin 71,11,8