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I need some advice.Starting back early in the spring somthing different for me took place I started losing my balancw and would always fall backwards. In the house it is very easy to do.You go to the 'fridge to get something you take 2/3 steps backward and bang down you go.You are outside cutting the grass and you have worked into a corner you start to work yourself out and you take those small steps backwards and you thank G-d for the dead mans switch.I hope you can see all the opportunities for stepping to the rear.And you will see all the chances for landing on your shoulder.Which brngs us up to the present.All of this falling backwards has causd me a lot of pain in my right shoulder.A visit to a Orthopedic Doctor and some X-rays showed him some bone chips or calcium to be the potential culprit until a series of MRI's disclosed that I have a torn rotater cuff. Now here is my dilemma,the answer to the problem is get the shoulder repaired. Which the doctor is reluctant to do because of the PD. I don' t need to go through surgery only to fall down and bust it loose again. Now we know neither one of the two problems, PD or the shoulder,are going to get better.Sow what do I do?is there any type of med I can get that will elminate the falling backwards.Is there a med I can get not in the usual PD arsenal that will help the situation.Im watching every step I take so farI have cut the fallng own from 5 or6 to 2/3. Any help you can give will be appreciated. Thanks Craig