The most common method your doctor will recommend treating your neuropathy is with prescription drugs. These drugs such as Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta and Neurontin may reduce your symptoms but are primarily antidepressant drugs. These drugs may cause you to feel uncomfortable or drowsy and can cause a variety of side effects.
Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitation balance problems. This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves in hands and feet which causes the nerves to begin to degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow.
As you can see in the figure above, the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased and then they shrivel up. This prevents the nerves from getting the needed nutrients to continue to survive. When these nerves begin to “die”, they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numbness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.
The main problem is that your doctor may have told you to just live with the problem or try the medications. There is now a facility here in St. Petersburg that offers you hope without taking medications with side effects.
The treatment is to increase blood flow to stimulate the blood vessels to grow back around the peripheral nerves and provide them with the proper nutrients to repair them. This amount of treatment varies from person to person.
Loss of blood flow causes nerve damage and pain.
THREE GOALS OF TREATMENT AT ACHIEVE ACUPUNCTURE
- Increase blood flow
- Stimulate nerve fibers
- Decrease brain-based pain
We determine this by doing a detailed neurological and vascular evaluation.
You can learn more about Dr. Gibbons and AAIM by visiting AchieveAcuim.com. If you’re ready to schedule a consultation call (727) 272-3587. Mention Paradise News for a $30 Neuropathy Consultation (Normally $230)
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