How to treat peripheral neuropathy

Treat peripheral neuropathy find symptoms and causes of neuropathy

Peripheral neuropathy is due to damage of the nerves of the feet, legs and spine. Neuropathy is one of the most difficult conditions to diagnose because symptoms vary from person to person. Having specialized in treating neuropathy for many years, it is quite common to hear exact opposite descriptions of the same condition! The following are some of the more common symptoms of neuropathy:

• Numbness and tingling of the toes, feet and legs—These sensations often start insidiously as slight discomfort in the tips of the toes. In time the condition may worsen and can affect the entire foot and lower leg.
• Burning sensation of the feet—many people state that “their feet feel like they are on fire”
• Ice cold feet—others experience the exact opposite sensation whereby their feet “feel like icicles”
• The feeling of tightness—as if a heavy band is wrapped around the feet.
• The odd sensation of feeling as one is walking on sandpaper or cardboard.
• Loss of balance—many neuropathy sufferers are very unsteady when they walk.

The above descriptions are called subjective findings. Objective findings are determined by testing, usually nerve conduction studies. Such studies indicate the location and extent on nerve damage. Early diagnosis of the condition is recommended for two reasons. Early detention may help prevent progression of the condition and also new therapies are now available to help relieve many on the uncomfortable sensations associated with peripheral neuropathy symptoms.

Dr. Marc Spitz is a reknowned Los angeles podiatristthe director of the Foot Pain Center in Seal Beach. With 35 years of experience, he has helped many folks with peripheral neuropathy treatment. To make an appointment, please call 562 799-0656 or log

Life with peripheral neuropathy - 1

When I used to see my grand father, tears swelled up my eyes, I could not bear his sufferings.
Joe my grand pa was detected with peripheral neuropathy at the age of 75.
precisely his condition was Myelinopathies, which affected his basic impulse and nerve control.
This is the main reason that I thought of writing about peripheral neuropathy.

What are peripheral neuropathy symptoms ?

In terms of function, there are commonly loss of sensations, which include gait imbalance, tremor, numbness.

Some over reactive symptoms include itching, pain, crawling, tingling. Pain can become so intense that use of opioid (narcotic) drugs (i.e., morphine, oxycodone) becomes imminent.

Skin can become so hypersensitive that patients are prohibited from having anything touch certain parts of their body, especially the feet. People with this degree of sensitivity cannot have a bedsheet touch their feet or wear socks or shoes, and eventually become housebound.

Motor symptoms include loss of function of weakness, tiredness, heaviness, and gait imbalances; and gain of symptoms like tremor and cramps.

It is also associated with pain in the muscles cramps and gait imbalances.

During examination, those with generalized peripheral neuropathy most commonly have motor or distal sensory loss, though those with a pathological problems with the peripheral nerves may be perfectly normal but sometimes may show proximal weakness, as in some inflammatory neuropathy or may show focal sensory disturbance or weakness.