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At 16:28 20-8-98 -0400, you wrote: >If anyone has had any experience with unrelenting back pain (or opinions >about it) caused by bad PD posture, I would appreciate it sincerely if you >would contact me. [log in to unmask] >Thanks, Bruce Anderson Bruce, I have suffered a few times from heavy back pain myself, which, so I suppose is caused by dystonia. The best way to prevent it for me is walking at least one hour each day. By walking the low back muscles loosen up. But when it is to late for that and the pain is not prevented but already there I need a physiotherapist to be able to walk at all again. It is the kind of pain which makes every movemnt of muscles involved a torture.(And I have learned that in nearly every movement one makes there is some involvement of low back muscles) So I can't sit down when I stand up and I can't stand up when I am sitting. Suffering from this condition and at the same time from rather heavy dyskinesia has been enough for me to stop taking sinemet for 1 or 2 days. Which resulted in being able at least not to move. A few weeks ago this happened again and the physiotherapist who as usual visited me at home gave me some excercises that I have to do nest to walking, though he agreed that walking is the best thing to do. But if one hates walking this execises are nearly as helpful. I think I can't clearly describe these excercises in English and I don't even know whether your pain is of the low back pain kind. But the general advise from this message is: look out for a good physiotherapist. Ida -------------------------------------------------------------- Vriendelijke Groeten / Kind regards, Ida Kamphuis mailto: [log in to unmask]