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THE 4 KEYS TO DEFEATING NEUROPATHY
Dear Neuropathy Sufferer:
Are you one of the thousands of frustrated neuropathy patients in and around Northern Colorado that continues to struggle with the numb, burning, tingling, and painful feet even after seeing your family doctor, trying their drugs, getting tests at the neurologist, and seemingly trying every treatment under the sun with no real relief?
Does This Sound Familiar?
- Burning Sensations (often worse at night)
- Tingling (Pin’s and Needles Feeling)
- Nerve Pain (Even if you’re not Diabetic)
- Numbness
- Cramping
- Swelling and Discoloration
- Change in Temperature Sensations
- Inability To Be On Your Feet or Walk Long Distances
- Problems With Balance and Coordination
Are you tired of feeling this way? Are you sick of hearing that there is nothing else that can be done? Or, worse than all of these, are you tired of hearing…”you will just have to live with it?”
We’d like to share some things with you that you have likely never heard before. It’s common to feel a little frustrated and even angry because you will soon realize that if you had this knowledge a month ago, a year ago, or even many years ago, you wouldn’t be suffering with peripheral neuropathy right now.
We share in your frustration. We see patients every day who have been through exactly what you’re going through. After reading this entire report you will be armed with information and knowledge that will help you make good choices about managing your neuropathy and assure you don’t get bounced around the “system” with no answers.
We can’t look back, but we can move forward … armed with knowledge and a clear path to follow … providing you freedom from neuropathy.
Know This Right Now… Neuropathy Does Not Have To Be a Life Sentence!
You’re about to learn:
- What the leading diagnosed cause of peripheral neuropathy is and how a new scientific approach is providing hope for real and lasting relief.
- The 4 keys to properly promote healing and restoration in peripheral nerves that MUST be a part of any successful neuropathy treatment approach. This is literally the difference between treatment success and just another failed attempt.
- How the same principles that allow a tree to grow can help you restore normal nerve function.
Our neuropathy specialists at Rocky Mountain Spine & Disc are dedicated to helping people just like YOU. It doesn’t matter if it’s called peripheral, small fiber, sensory, diabetic, or polyneuropathy. With very subtle difference, those are just fancy ways of saying the same thing! We’ve grown sick and tired of seeing neuropathy patients not getting the help they deserve in traditional neurology and general practice medical offices and have made it our life’s work to develop cutting-edge treatment approaches that provide neuropathy relief without the side effects of dangerous prescription medications.
What’s Wrong With The System? Why Is Treating Neuropathy Such a Struggle When Medical Advancements Are At An All-Time High?
Today in standard neurology and general practice offices patients are often given nothing, but drugs and expensive testing. Unfortunately, despite the fact that they may determine that a nerve is not functioning right, they don’t have a legitimate solution for you, do they?
The fancy tests are able to better describe WHAT is happening but they don’t lead to HOW to fix it. Do you really care if you have “small fiber afferent neuropathy” or “mononeuritis multiplex neuropathy” if it doesn’t lead to you getting better treatment or actually fixing the problem?
Many patients are simply given medication after medication that makes them tired and groggy, but that doesn’t take away the pain. We often hear that the medications make them feel like a “zombie.”
Making matters worse…
Those With Peripheral Neuropathy Are At An Increased Risk For Falls And Hip Fractures
It’s not just about getting relief from the unrelenting pain and nights of disrupted sleep, it’s about ensuring that you have the quality of life you deserve for your future. A fractured hip is the fastest way to destroy your mobility and quality of life and the risk of this happening increases as your neuropathy progresses and is not properly treated.
If you don’t find a solution to your neuropathy that restores nerve function and improves your balance and coordination you may face some serious consequences.
So What Causes Peripheral Neuropathy?
There are many causes of neuropathy. Here are a just a few… structural disorders; lumbar stenosis; diabetes; smoking; chemotherapy; vitamin deficiency; peripheral vascular disease; prescription medication side effects; and the list goes on.
No matter what the mechanism, neuropathy means simply – “a nerve that is not functioning properly.”
All of the above conditions can damage the nerves leading the pain, burning, tingling, and numbness you experience on a daily basis.
More Importantly Do You Know What The #1 Diagnosed Cause Of Neuropathy Is?
Idiopathic.
This is just a fancy medical way of saying; the cause of the nerve damage is unknown.
What does that mean for you?
It means that the doctors are observing the symptoms (numbness, burning, pain, tingling, etc), but they don’t know why you have it. So the only thing they can do is throw a laundry list of medications at you and hope something provides symptomatic relief.
Is There Still Hope For Me?
The good news is that no matter what the cause, if you have neuropathy, new technological advances in the area of nerve restoration are allowing thousands of neuropathy patients to finally get relief … even if the doctor never indicated the exact cause of your nerve damage in the first place.
You see most neuropathy treatments fail because:
- There is no true understanding of the nature and location of the nerve problem and…
- The treatments are not designed to heal the nerve … they only attempt to minimize the symptoms while bringing with them dangerous side effects.
There are FOUR KEY ELEMENTS to properly heal a damaged nerve and create real and lasting relief from neuropathy.
At our Ft. Collins Neuropathy Treatment Center, we have combined these elements required to heal the damaged nerves in your feet and provide true and lasting relief.
A lot of neuropathy treatment approaches include one or maybe two of these key elements while completely ignoring the others.
Before any of that though, the first step to defeating neuropathy is the proper evaluation of your peripheral nerves. We need to determine if there is indeed damage to the nerve itself.
A detailed, functional neurological examination to determine the extent of motor loss, sensory loss, vibration sensation, reflex brain coordination, and trophic changes (hot and cold) must be performed to understand the true cause of the problem.
The type, extent of damage, and location of nerve damage are as unique as a snowflake and the first task at hand is gaining a thorough understanding YOUR underlying issues.
If there is no nerve damage detected then ultimately you may have been misdiagnosed and are possibly getting the wrong treatment. In these cases, you could properly apply all 4 keys and not get results because it would be the wrong treatment.
After determining the extent and exact locations of your nerve damage treatment, healing a damaged peripheral nerve is going to require 4 key elements that to defeating peripheral neuropathy.
Key #1: Reduction and Control of Inflammation
Damaged peripheral nerves are ultimately inflamed. When a nerve is inflamed, it becomes swollen, leading to decreased function. When this happens, you feel pain, tingling, numbness, and burning depending on the extent of the inflammation and the type of nerve affected.
An extreme example of an inflamed nerve is Sciatica. This is when the nerve that comes out of your back becomes inflamed and it starts to shoot pain down the back of your leg and possibly into calf and foot.
Proper treatment for neuropathy must have the ability to reduce and control inflammation both locally and systemically, meaning it needs to reduce the inflammation around the nerve while at the same time reducing inflammation throughout the body.
Some treatments reduce inflammation either systemically OR locally but almost never are they able to reduce inflammation from both perspectives simultaneously.
Key #2: Nerve Stimulation
In order to get your nerves working properly, you must stimulate them, but you must stimulate them the right way. If you take nothing else away from this, please do yourself a favor – do not use a cheap TENS unit to stimulate your nerves. Not only is that ineffective, but it can actually make your neuropathy worse. TENS units are designed to scramble the nerve signals and confuse your brain, thereby producing short term pain relief. The problem with that? Your nerve signals are already scrambled! That’s why you’re experiencing the symptoms of neuropathy. There are much more effective, beneficial ways to stimulate the nerves in your feet and re-establish normal nerve signals to your brain.
True healing of a nerve requires the right nerve stimulation. There is no medication available today that does this.
Any medicinal approach is ultimately going to fail because it lacks this key ingredient to defeating neuropathy. If you can stimulate the internal production of energy (ATP) you accelerate the healing process and provide rapid relief of your neuropathy symptoms that are long lasting.
Key #3: Improve The Blood Flow
What would you do if you had a plant that was drying up and wilting? You would give it water, sunlight, and nutrients, right?
Many neuropathy patients also experience swelling, purple or reddish feet, feeling of being cold to the touch (sometimes even when the feel hot sensations), or just a general discoloration from one side to the other.
The reason for this is that there is a blood flow issue. This absolutely needs to be addressed to get the best results. Even for the folks who don’t have any of the above visual symptoms, improving blood supply is critical because all tissues – and especially nerves – must have adequate blood supply for optimal healing.
This key to successfully defeating neuropathy is missing in 99.9% of all neuropathy treatment programs available today … either because they are completely unaware of the importance or they have not put the pieces together and discovered the precise elements necessary to help restore nerve function.
Key #4: Neuromuscular Re-education (The Spinal and Lower Extremity Structure)
The last key in successfully treating and beating neuropathy is resyncing the nerves and the brain by addressing the structure – where the nerves in your feet actually come from.
The reason that those with neuropathy are at such high risk for falls and hip fractures is that the damaged peripheral nerves are not communicating properly with the brain. The joints above your feet and the area where those nerves come from play a huge role in what’s going on in your feet. Bad input = bad output.
After restoring your lost nerve function you must re-coordinate the feedback between the brain and the nerve.
If the newly healed nerve and brain are not on the same wavelength, you will continue to be at a higher risk for falls and hip fractures. Although it is the pain, burning, numbness, and tingling that are the thing most neuropathy patients want relief from, the biggest danger lies in this increased risk of falls and fractures. Nobody wants that!
It Takes A Whole-Person, Functional Approach.
After reading this far it should be obvious that we don’t take the standard approach to treating neuropathy. We don’t give medications that come riddled with side-effects or prescribe cookie-cutter treatments that do little to improve the pain, numbness, and burning you experience on a daily basis.
Neuropathy is a complex condition and it takes a Big-Picture approach that utilizes the best science and technology have to offer to manage it effectively and create the relief we are sure you desire.
We treat neuropathy from every angle, including implementing every critical key element necessary to promote healing of the nerves and maximum symptom relief.
The success of our neuropathy treatment program is attributed to our unwillingness to cut corners, leveraging the latest technological advances, and developing proprietary scientific protocols that provide a predictable result.
How To Use This Information To Ensure You Take A Straight Path To Long Lasting Relief…
As you can now see, successfully treating your neuropathy is not going to just happen by accident. The pills you have been taking for months or years are not all of a sudden going to start working better. You need to ensure that the treatment path you take includes all 4 key elements required to successfully defeat neuropathy.
What Do I Do Now?
Pick up the phone and call us now at (970) 682-2667 to schedule your New Patient Special evaluation, or simply use our online appointment request system. We are truly dedicated to helping as many people as possible overcome this crippling problem and we want to help you, too!
We look forward to meeting you.
- Dr. John A Smith, DC, BCN (Board Certified in Neuropathy and Chronic Intractable Pain) – ACOPM
- Dr. Carla Irven (Smith), DC, BCN (Board Certified in Neuropathy and Chronic Intractable Pain) – ACOPM