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Dear Llist members: My good friend, Mary Yost, describes PD as an adventure, and I couldn't agree more--mostly a horror story in which you never know what to expect mext, and there always is a next. My next is that after 4 surgeries in the last 3 yeears--2 pallidotomies. back surgery and shouder replacement last July--my shoulder surgeonn told me yesterday that I tore my rotator cuff in the same shoulder that was replaced (in a nasty fall in which I also broke 6 ribs) and that I, must have surgery to repair it (the tear has also pushed the artificial shoulder piece slightly out of place). Now,, after my last surgery. I swore that I had had enough surgery for a lifetime--except, maybe, DBS--so I am asking if anyone has had experience with or knows about SUCCESSFUL non-surgcical, or alternative medical approaches for a torn rotator cuff. Thx. Marty Polonsky