Barb: Only time will tell if inflammation proves to be a major/contributing factor in PD. Stay tuned----but live for today! Carole Cassidy At 09:15 PM 7/11/98 EDT, you wrote: >Carole Cassidy, >I was most interested in what Dr. Langston had to say about inflamation from >injury or disease as a possible causative factor when he spoke to >participants in the PAN Forum. My husband sustained a real hit in the head as >a young naval aviator and later suffered a terrible rupture of several discs >in his back for which he had a laminectomy too many years later and after much >suffering. After picking up that filing cabinet, inflamation was a close >companion. Either incident or the problem of chronic inflamation could have >been a factor. >Barb Brock > >