Treatment Applications

Motor Neuropathy Care- Long Term Strategies are Key

Motor neuropathy usually starts in the hands and feet, and can affect the full extension of fingers and toes. In addition to the dexterity problems this obviously causes, it often also has a visual appearance of “clawlike” fingers. The condition is degenerative, getting worse over a period of months and years. Twitching and spasms can also happen in affected limbs. While motor issues associated with peripheral neuropathy usually accompany pain, tingling, and numbness, multifocal motor neuropathy involves no pain (only the motor nerves are affected). Generally, none of the varieties of motor neuropathy are life-threatening, although they can absolutely impact your comfort and quality of life if you suffer from them.

Neuropathic Nutrition!

Neuropathy and nutrition is very important to learn. Just be careful of too much fruit sugars. This means a serving is 1/2 apple, banana, etc. Most non-starchy vegetables like greens and asparagus especially are great for most of us.

Entrapment Neuropathy: More Than Just Carpal Tunnel!

Two main conditions affect the ulnar nerve: Guyon’s canal syndrome and cubital tunnel syndrome. Guyon’s canal syndrome is almost exactly the same in symptoms as carpal tunnel syndrome (pain and tingling in the palm and first three fingers), but involves a completely different nerve. Guyon’s canal syndrome is caused by pressure on your wrists, often by resting them at a desk or workstation, and is frequently experienced by cyclists due to pressure from the handlebars.

Neuropathy and Exercise

Exercising regularly greatly decreases anyone’s risk of diabetic neuropathy, and has been shown to control symptoms and deterioration in sufferers by elevating overall blood flow to the limbs and controlling cardiovascular atrophy. Depending on your specific type of neuropathy, areas affected, and the extent of the damage, you will have to adjust conventional workout routines to accommodate the condition.

Avoiding Self-Diagnosis Roulette

If you fall into the “I know I’m dying” category, you will probably begin doctor shopping. Going from specialist to specialist looking for someone to confirm the worst. Even beyond the physical damage the stress of this process can do to your body, your emotional well-being is destroyed.

You live day to day expecting the worst with the specter of the Grim Reaper hanging over your shoulder. That is no way to live.

Even Healthy People Can Develop Neuropathy

Diabetes… Lupus… Cancer and chemotherapy… Any of these conditions can lead to peripheral neuropathy… But what you might not realize is that you can develop peripheral neuropathy even if you’re perfectly healthy. Athletes who take part in sports that require consistent overhead movement of the arms (like tennis, baseball, kayaking, volleyball) place a lot of [...]

Lupus – Not a Cookie Cutter Illness

When we hear that someone has lupus, we tend to think of it as one illness… One illness with a very specific set of symptoms… In both cases, we would be wrong. Lupus is a very complex group of illnesses that not only vary by type but also in how they affect individual patients. No [...]

HIV/AIDS and Peripheral Neuropathy – An Ever Changing Relationship

If you have HIV/AIDS, at some point in the progression of your disease you’ll probably develop peripheral nerve damage or peripheral neuropathy. By most estimates, roughly one-third of people with HIV/AIDS experience peripheral neuropathy, especially in advanced cases. While that may not be surprising, what you should also know is that some forms of peripheral [...]

Acute Kidney Failure and Its Deadly Sidekick – Uremic Neuropathy

When you hear the words “acute kidney failure”, what do you think of? Dialysis? Hospitalization? Symptoms too obvious to ignore? Then you might be surprised to learn that acute kidney failure often doesn’t cause noticeable symptoms. Many times it’s detected when the patient is already in the hospital for something else and evidence [...]

One More Symptom of STD’s – Peripheral Neuropathy

If you’ve been diagnosed with one or more of these sexually transmitted diseases: • HIV/AIDS • Genital Herpes (or any one of the large number of herpes-simplex viruses) • Gonorrhea • Syphilis • Chlamydia • Hepatitis B and D • HPV (Human papillomavirus infection) Yes, we said one or more. Because of the way sexually [...]