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Peripheral neuropathy, a result of damage to the nerves located outside of the brain and spinal cord (peripheral nerves), often causes weakness, numbness and pain, usually in the hands and feet. It can also affect other areas and body functions including digestion, urination and circulation.
Your peripheral nervous system sends information from your brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) to the rest of your body. The peripheral nerves also send sensory information to the central nervous system.1
People with peripheral neuropathy generally describe the pain as stabbing, burning or tingling. In many cases, symptoms improve, especially if caused by a treatable condition. Peripheral neuropathy currently affects over 20 million people in the United States.
While neuropathy can be severe, the most common forms of neuropathy include diabetic neuropathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica which are actually quite prevalent in adult populations. The symptoms of neuropathy greatly depend on the type of nerves that are damaged, ranging from motor nerves, and sensory nerves.
Causes of peripheral neuropathy
Diabetes is the number 1 cause of peripheral neuropathy, but it is not the only cause. Some of the health conditions that can cause peripheral neuropathy include:
• Excessive alcohol drinking for years
• Low levels of vitamin B12 or other vitamins
• Physical damage to the nerves, such as from an injury or during surgery
• An underactive thyroid gland
• Certain infections, such as shingles, Lyme disease, diphtheria, botulism and HIV
• Inflammation of the blood vessels
• Chronic liver disease or chronic kidney disease
• The presence of an abnormal protein in the blood (monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, or MGUS)
• Certain types of cancer, such as lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, and multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer
• Health conditions caused by overactivity of the immune system, such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus2
How Chiropractic Care Can Work for Cases of Neuropathy
Chiropractic treatments can take care of peripheral diseases by focusing on handling all fundamental nerve conditions that cause inflammation. The pain will gradually disappear after several sessions of chiropractic massage, which is carried out on specific joints to ease chronic pain.
Chiropractic Therapy is the best alternative to normal peripheral medications, and patients look forward to relief in their joints as well as an improvement to their overall health. In order to achieve a positive result, chiropractors can personalize each treatment plan to satisfy the individual patient’s needs.
With chiropractic treatments, patients with neuropathy can be provided with various approaches that heal damage; These manipulations and adjustments of nerves can be helpful in symptom management like tingling sensations, loss of sensation on one part of the foot and/or weakness of various muscles.
Choosing chiropractic care as an alternative to regular medications can be helpful in the treatment of your nerve pain because chiropractors often recommend a therapy for the decompression of your spine if you are a patient with chronic pain in the lower back.
Also, patients with neuropathy can benefit from therapeutic ultrasound devices, which allow chiropractors the easy option of giving their patients some mild but deep stimulations in the tissue without necessarily using heat directly at the nerve to relieve pain.
With chiropractic treatment, there may be no special requirement to solve all neuropathy problems. However, chiropractors can provide patients with various relieving options, depending on their nerve symptoms. Some patients with mild neuropathy can get better after one session with a chiropractor, while others may get well only after a series of regular visits.
During chiropractic care sessions, a chiropractor targets the main neuropathy case of each patient, using physical therapy to achieve an accurate solution to the problem. Following this method of treatment, patients can begin to see significant results.
Depending on the severity of your pain and symptoms, treatment for neuropathy is often adjusted to first treat the associating condition that is causing the pain. To manage nerve pain and these underlying conditions, we utilize a combination of natural therapeutic treatments such as corrective care, and nerve regeneration to greatly reduce the severity of your discomfort.
Our mission at Caliber Wellness is simply to serve you. We have a beautiful holistic approach to the structural, chemical, and emotional health in our patients. Each potential root cause of your symptoms must be considered and ACCURATELY treated to achieve LASTING RESULTS. Every treatment plan is personalized to YOU. No two patients are exactly the same, and neither is their health journey! We are here to support you each step of the way.
Our state-of-the-art equipment and objective testing methods let us know exactly what you need to get your life back instead of masking symptoms.
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1. Peripheral neuropathy (2022) Mayo Clinic. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and
Research. Available at: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peripheral-
neuropathy/symptoms-causes/syc-20352061.
2. NHS choices. NHS. Available at: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/peripheral-neuropathy/
causes/.
