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What is Peripheral Neuropathy?

Peripheral Neuropathy happens when the nerves outside your brain and spinal cord get damaged. These nerves send messages from your brain to your body and back. When they are damaged, it’s like having static on a phone line—messages get mixed up or lost. For example, you might feel a burning sensation in your feet even though they aren’t actually burning. This happens because the nerves are sending wrong signals to your brain.

What Are the Symptoms?

Peripheral neuropathy can show up suddenly or slowly over time. Here’s what you might notice:

  • Tingling, Weakness, Numbness, and Pain: These often start in your hands, feet, arms, or legs. Common signs include:
    • Weakness: You might find it hard to walk, climb stairs, or carry things. Your legs might feel heavy, and you might stumble more.
    • Numbness and Odd Sensations: You might feel tingling, burning, or sharp pains. Sometimes, you might not feel anything at all, which can make you accidentally hurt yourself.
    • Loss of Position Sense: You might not be sure where your feet are, making you unsteady or changing the way you walk.
  • Feeling Like You’re Wearing Gloves or Stockings: You might have a strange sensation as if you’re wearing gloves or stockings, even though your hands and feet are bare.
  • Autonomic Symptoms: Damage to nerves that control automatic functions can cause:
    • Trouble breathing
    • Heart problems
    • Dizziness when standing up
    • Digestive issues like constipation or diarrhea
    • Bladder and sexual problems
    • Less sweating and skin that bruises easily

What Causes Peripheral Neuropathy?

Peripheral neuropathy can be caused by many things, including:

  • Diabetes: Makes up about 33% of cases.
  • Unknown Causes: Also about 33%, where the reason isn’t clear.
  • Other Causes: Around 34%, such as:
    • Injuries: From accidents, falls, or sports.
    • Health Conditions: Like diabetes, thyroid problems, or metabolic disorders.
    • Vitamin Shortages: Especially vitamins E, B1, B6, and B12.
    • Blood and Vascular Issues: Conditions like stroke or autoimmune diseases.
    • Repeated Stress: Constant, intense use of joints.
    • Toxins: Exposure to heavy metals, alcohol, or certain medications.

Understanding these causes can help in finding the right treatment for peripheral neuropathy.

Neuropathy in Retford – What to Watch Out For

What is Peripheral Neuropathy?

Simply put, it is damage to your peripheral nerves. Like static on a telephone line, when there is peripheral neuropathy in Retford, the message between the brain and the rest of the body becomes distorted or interrupted.

Peripheral nerves are outside the brain and spinal cord and carry information back and forth from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. “Peripheral” means away from the centre: and this system contains the nerves that connect the Central Nervous System to the muscles, skin, and internal organs.

Damaged peripheral nerves do not communicate properly with the brain. For example, patients may experience a painful, burning sensation on their feet but do not actually have burning skin; their nerves are just sending incorrect signals to the brain, and the brain interprets those incorrect signals accordingly.

Symptoms of Peripheral Neuropathy

Some neuropathies come on suddenly; others develop gradually over many years. The symptoms depend on the type of nerves affected and the location of the nerve. Most people’s symptoms start with tingling, weakness, numbness, and/or pain in the feet, hands, arms and legs.

Most symptoms occur in the “stocking and glove” areas.

Here are some of the telltale signs people describe:
  • Weakness. Foot drop, difficulty walking or running, heaviness in the legs, stumbling, muscle cramps, or dropping things due to weak grip.
  • Numbness, tingling, burning and pain. Pins and needles, prickling, sharp stabbing pains, buzzing, shocks, or loss of sensation.
  • Absence of position sense. Feeling unsteady when walking, dragging feet, or widening gait to maintain balance.
  • “Glove and Stocking Sensation.” Feeling like you’re wearing socks or gloves when your hands and feet are bare.
  • Other symptoms. Digestive upset, bladder issues, dizziness when standing, sexual dysfunction, thinning skin, or poor healing.
Causes of Peripheral Neuropathy
  • 33% Diabetic
  • 33% Idiopathic (no clear cause)
  • 34% Other causes
Common causes include:
  • Physical injury or trauma
  • Metabolic & endocrine disorders (e.g. diabetes, hypothyroidism)
  • Vitamin deficiencies (B1, B6, B12, E)
  • Vascular damage, blood disorders, autoimmune conditions
  • Repetitive stress injuries
  • Toxins, alcohol, or certain medications
Peripheral Neuropathy Relief

According to allopathic medicine, peripheral neuropathy can’t be cured, but you can do many things to prevent it from getting worse. Conventional medicine often relies on medications to manage symptoms.

However, no matter the cause, neuropathy has one thing in common: chronic inflammation. This inflammation deprives your nerves of oxygen and nutrients, which are vital for nerve regeneration.

So, if you could reduce inflammation and improve oxygen delivery to the nerves, your peripheral nerves could begin to regenerate.

The Achieve Nerve Reboot™ Program

Our Achieve Nerve Reboot™ Program does just that — and that’s why our patients not only see a decrease or elimination of their symptoms, but also regain their quality of life.

This program does 2 things that no other neuropathy program, therapy, or supplement does:

  1. INCREASES blood circulation directly to your peripheral nerves.
    By sending signals to your brain, we direct more blood to the nerves and key organs. This reduces inflammation and improves nutrient delivery to the nerves.
  2. RETRAINS your brain to self-heal your body again.
    We reboot the nervous system by sending your brain a program for self-healing. This re-establishes communication between your brain and peripheral nerves, allowing natural self-healing to occur.
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