Contact a local NeuropathyDR® professional or physical therapist to explore treatment options in addition to taking care better of yourself! Before you begin any healthcare regimen, always talk to your professional first. Move As Much As Possible! You don’t have to run a marathon, or even walk one. You don’t have to race a titanium [...]

If you suffer from peripheral neuropathy you need to take special care of your feet and be very aware of any sign of problems. If you have diabetes… Many people with diabetes don’t realize how toxic high blood sugar is. Or you’ve had shingles… Even if you’ve completed a successful course of chemotherapy… And you [...]

Further altering your lifestyle can help tremendously in dealing with your peripheral neuropathy. Last time, we talked about some of the first steps you can take after being diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy. Have a health care professional with whom you can discuss ideas and suggestions openly and freely. Next, even if you are moderately overweight [...]

Very often, patients who are faced with an acute onset of peripheral neuropathy or other devastating disorder have difficulty deciding what to do first. So what I would like to do today is outline some of the critical steps that we find helpful; things you seriously need to take a look at if you or [...]

One of the most frustrating things about peripheral neuropathy, for both patients and doctors, is that you may never know with 100% certainty what caused it. Last time we talked about some of the questions that we commonly get regarding neuropathy and chronic pain. Here are more of our opinions regarding these questions: The next [...]

Unfortunately, there is a great deal of misinformation regarding the treatment of peripheral neuropathy. Recently, we asked our neuropathy patients to ask us questions about what bothers them most about peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain. Not surprisingly, a lot of the questions were the same: Treating peripheral neuropathy can be very challenging. “How can I [...]

There is a long-reported link between dairy consumption and the development of type 1 diabetes. Significant numbers of patients with type 1 diabetes can, and do, develop neuropathy. In one of our recent articles, we spent some substantial time talking about dairy consumption, and its negative effects on human health. As I said previously, these [...]

Dairy consumption almost always makes patients with peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain suffer more than necessary. This series of articles will not be “politically correct”. Nor will it likely be popular with the mainstream press. But the fact of the matter is, anybody with a degree in nutrition, who has done across the board research, [...]

Good neuropathy and chronic pain treatment is often a do-it-yourself project. As you probably know, peripheral neuropathy is a condition that afflicts millions of Americans. Learn more about your own health and fitness. In fact, one hundred million Americans suffer some form of chronic pain—and 25% of those suffer from some form of peripheral neuropathy! [...]

If you believe you may be suffering from neuropathy, it is important to get proper treatment that targets the overall improvement of your health—early. One of the things that we see in the office all too frequently is when a patient presents with neuropathy symptoms, sometimes for many years. Drug-only therapy can mask underlying causes [...]