NEUROPATHY BROCHURE MATERIAL
WHAT IS PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY?
Peripheral Neuropathy describes damage to the nervous system outside the spine and
brain. Most commonly, the condition will affect the nerve cells most distant from the
brain and the spinal cord first. It will often start in the toes and feet, and then progress
higher into the legs. Eventually the symptoms can progress into the central parts of the
body. When nerves are damaged, they cause a wide array of symptoms; including pain
and numbness.
What are the symptoms?
Most commonly, peripheral neuropathy starts in the nerves farthest from your brain, like
the nerves in your fingers and your toes. Symptoms may include:
* Numbness or lack of sensation in your feet or hands
* Tingling in your feet or hands
* Burning pain
* Sharp or jabbing pains
* Electric-like pain, comparable to the feeling of “hitting your funny bone”
* The feel of “walking on gravel”
* The feel like “bugs are crawling on your skin”
* Extreme sensitivity to touch, even light touch
* Lack of coordination and balance
* Muscle weakness or paralysis
WHAT CAUSES PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY?
DIABETES
Diabetic neuropathy is a type of nerve damage that can occur if you have diabetes. Up to
26 percent of people with type 2 diabetes have evidence of nerve damage at the time that
Diabetes is diagnosed. High blood sugar can injure nerve fibers throughout your body,
but most often damages nerves in your periphery; like those in your legs and feet.
Symptoms of diabetic neuropathy can range from pain and numbness in your extremities
to problems with your digestive system, urinary tract, blood vessels and heart. For some
people, these symptoms are mild; for others, diabetic neuropathy can be painful and
disabling. Diabetic Neuropathy is a common serious complication of Diabetes and left
untreated, it continues to worsen. While tight blood sugar control and a healthy lifestyle
can sometimes prevent or slow the onset of Neuropathy, sometimes even the healthiest
Diabetics may develop Neuropathy.
OTHER CAUSES
There are other reasons that could contribute to a person developing Neuropathy. You DO
NOT have to be Diabetic to have Peripheral Neuropathy. Systemic disease, physical
injury or trauma, vitamin/mineral deficiencies, environmental toxins exposure, metal
accumulation, alcoholism, and genetic conditions can all be causes of the condition.
Any of these factors or combination of these factors could be contributing to the growing
number of Americans with Peripheral Neuropathy.
THE OPTIONS:
Most Neurologists will prescribe a medication in pill form to help the Neuropathy patient
deal with the pain. Neurotin, Gabapentin, and Lyrica are common drugs prescribed for
the relief of Neuropathic Pain. The problem with these medications is that the doses have
to keep going up over the years, as the condition progresses. There are also side effects
that affect the patient. Laser Treatments and Accupuncture have also become popular in
the last few years. However, the results which seem to be good at first, often seem to
wane very quickly, putting the patient back at square one.
Due to the lack of successful treatments, most Diabetics with Neuropathy have been
given just two options for the long haul: Live with the pain, or take the pills every day to
mask the pain.
MY MOTHER’S STORY:
My mother was diagnosed with Peripheral Neuropathy over 20 years ago. Her Peripheral
Neuropathy was brought on due to a genetic condition. Throughout the years, I had tried
every treatment possible for my mom: I tried the pills, acupuncture, laser therapy, creams,
and also brought my mom to the best specialists I could find, including Doctors in several
states. Nothing worked. Her numbness started in her toes and had progressed up above
her knee level. She was one of the worst cases I had ever seen. She was losing her
balance and starting to fall on a weekly basis. After years of frustration, and feeling
helpless while watching my Mom’s condition worsen, I finally researched a different
treatment that I was hopeful about. It is called CET; Combination Electro-Chemical
Therapy.
FINALLY, A TREATMENT THAT WORKS
I wasn’t about to stand for my Mother taking pills for the rest of her life or the other
option of “just living with the pain.” You shouldn’t have to either. I have researched and
brought a treatment to Total HealthCare in Minnesota that finally gets results for
Neuropathy patients, called Combined Electro-Chemical Therapy. After putting my
Mother through the treatment successfully, I decided to offer the Treatment in my clinic. I
want to help the growing number of people who are suffering from the pain, numbness,
and symptoms that accompany Neuropathy.
The Evidence behind Combined Electro-Chemical Therapy
Our Medical Treatment uses electrical current and local anesthetic for pain management
in Peripheral Neuropathy Patients. It does not utilize lasers, accupucture, or chiropractic.
Our evidence-based treatment was developed by Dr. Robert H. Odell, Jr., MD, PhD, in
Las Vegas, Nevada. His research using combined electrochemical nerve blocks produced
amazing results: It reduced the pain in 80% of the Neuropathy Patients he tested.
Now, his treatment is utilized by over 150 clinics across the country. Overall, 9 out of 10
patients receive 50-85% improvement in their symptoms. I believe the results we have
been getting at Total HealthCare have been landing at the higher end of that spectrum,
with most of our patients receiving 80-90% and above improvement.
Goals of the Combined Electro-Chemical Therapy
The goal of our treatment is to give you the quality of your life back. We want you to be
pain free, do the activities you love, and sleep well at night.
Goals of our treatment include the following:
1. Reducing your daily pain, numbness, and discomfort.
2. Improve your Balance.
3. Improve your mobility and decrease any difficulty walking
4. Improve the quality of your life and activities of daily living.
We monitor our patients’ progress every visit. We maintain a subjective pain scale and
sensation scale for each patient every visit. Besides pain relief, two of the biggest
improvements patients note are:
1) Better Sleep, due to less pain waking them in the middle of the night
2) Improved balance, due to the increase in sensation.
OUR PATIENT RESULTS
Our success stories are amazing. 9 out of 10 patients receive improvements in their
symptoms. We had a patient enter our clinic in a wheel chair and progress to a walker,
then a cane, and then finally, to normal mobility without need for any aids after receiving
treatment here for Peripheral Neuropathy. Amazing. Our patients speak volumes about
the treatment’s success:
1) SUCCESS STORY
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