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By Richard Hiler, DABCN
Peripheral neuropathy is a complex condition. Finding the root cause and the extent of damage and to what types of nerves or blood vessels is how a comprehensive plan is customized to regenerate a patient’s nerves cells and tissues. Conventional medicine has no answers. It’s either live with it or take addicting medications for the pain, most commonly gabapentin.
Very few physicians are trained to treat the condition. Success ideally involves collaboration of medical personnel, chiropractic and or physical therapy personnel, and functional neurology. At Feel Amazing Institute this is what we offer.
What is the Ultimate Neuropathy Program?
There are several clinics in SWFL that propose a treatment for peripheral neuropathy. There are dozens of treatments that have shown to be beneficial for the diagnosis. Many clinics do one or two of these treatment options but very few can combine and offer dozens of these options.
At Feel Amazing Institute, we were the original clinic to create a comprehensive Neuropathy program back in 2006. There was a learning curve and results varied at first. After 16 years of experience, becoming board-certified in functional neurology, and becoming medically integrated, my clinic now has it down to a science. In 2017 my office was one of the first in the country, and I believe still the only in southwest Florida, to offer regenerative medicine and natural biologics as options for peripheral neuropathy. To date this has been the most significant endeavor to enhance results for our clients.
All neuropathies are not the same and require different programs.
Because what works well for one person may not necessarily work well for another, it’s never a good idea to depend on just one or two treatments. It is just as easy to combine many types of treatments to improve the chances and the amount of success. Also the treatment must be individualized and specific.
The Ultimate Neuropathy Program should include advanced technologies to be done at a physician’s office as well as treatments for self-care at home. It may include vitamin and wellness infusions to enhance the body’s internal environment for healing. It may include light therapies, electrical therapies, sound and pressure wave therapies, Pulsed electro-magnetic field therapies, regenerative medicine options, as well as lifestyle and nutritional recommendations.
Many clinics do a Toronto Clinical Neuropathy assessment and score. Some will do an infrared heat map of the feet. However, without an extensive neurological training, the interpretation of the score and image is what is key.
What to do and what not to do, and when?
Is the neuropathy peripheral or central? Big nerves or small nerves? Motor, sensory, autonomic, or all the above? One nerve or many nerves? How will the treatment differ if it’s both feet, both hands, equal damage bilaterally, or worse on one side? How will the treatment differ if there is burning pain, numbness, loss of balance, weakness, or complicated by back pain or stenosis? What if the neuropathy affects the entire body? Is there a treatment for that? Yes, there are several.
Our clinic has a very sophisticated computer analysis that measures peripheral nerve function, peripheral vascular function, and central nerve function with a score for each, and an extensive report breaking down the many physiological and metabolic components. The test can be repeated after a treatment regimen and the improvement measured and quantified.
What modalities are used for improvement?
These are prescribed on an individual basis after a thorough assessment:
• Five different electrical therapies
• Four possible light therapies
• Four types of vibration therapy
• Class 4 high powered lasers
• Pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF)
• Soundwave/Shockwave/pressure waves
• Ozone therapy and/or peptide therapy
• Spinal decompression therapy (often not needed)
• Natural supplementation and/or vitamin-wellness infusions
• Injections or infusions of Natural Biologics including Wharton’s jelly allografts, growth factors, and platelet rich plasma.
What kind of results can be achieved through the ultimate neuropathy treatment program at Feel Amazing Institute?
Our patients report that better than 90% have excellent results. Most who undergo the treatment experience the following: reduced pain, reduced tingling and numbness, ability to experience normal touch without pain, reduce cold or burning sensations, improved balance and coordination, lowered dependency on medication, improved sleep, relief of restless legs, reduced swelling and inflammation, improved muscle function.
An important side benefit of the treatment is that it reduces the risk of falls significantly by improving balance and position awareness of the feet.
Feel Amazing Institute is equipped to diagnose and help a wide range of conditions that include:
Peripheral neuropathy
Severe neck and back pain
Shoulder, elbow, or wrist pain
Hip, knee, ankle, or foot pain
Headache, dizziness, vertigo, or balance problems
Disc bulge, herniation, sciatica, or stenosis
Auto accident, whiplash injuries
If you need a highly experienced, chiropractic neurologist in Naples, Florida, look no further than Feel Amazing Institute. For more information, to schedule a free telephone consultation, or for free informational seminar or webinar, call today!
Hiler Chiropractic & Neurology and Feel Amazing Institute
239-330-1000
3031 Airport Pulling Rd. N
Naples, FL 34105