Peripheral Neuropathy WARNING!

Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating balance problems. This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves in the hands and feet which causes the nerves to begin to degenerate, due to lack of nutrient flow.

As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become unhealthy, they shrivel up, which causes the nerves to not receive the nutrients to continue to thrive. When these nerves begin to deteriorate they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numbness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.

The most common method recommended to treat your neuropathy is with prescription drugs that may temporarily reduce your symptoms. These drugs have names such as Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin, and are primarily antidepressant or anti-seizure drugs. These drugs may cause you to feel uncomfortable and have a variety of harmful side effects.

The main problem is that you have been told to just live with the problem or try the drugs which you don’t like taking because they make you feel uncomfortable. There is now a facility right here in Boynton Beach that offers you new hope, naturally without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity examination at the end of this article)

The treatmert to increase blood flow utilizes a specialized lowlevel light therapy (not to be confused with laser therapy) using light emitting diode technology. The low level light therapy is like watering a tree. The light therapy will allow the blood vessels to improve around the peripheral nerves and provide them with the proper nutrients to heal and repair. It’s like adding water to a tree and seeing the roots grow deeper and deeper.

The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to improve varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological and structural evaluation. As long as you have not sustained too much nerve degeneration, there may be hope! In order to effectively improve your neuropathy symptoms three factors must be determined. 1 What is the underlying cause?

2 How much nerve degeneration has been sustained?* 3 How much treatment you may require?

Don’t Hesitate to Act Now!

*Peripheral Neuropathy is a progressive condition and what we have seen clinically is that once you have sustained too much nerve degeneration, there might not be anything we can do to help.

The treatment that is provided at

Fusion Medical Center has three main goals:

1 Increase blood flow 2 Stimulate small fiber nerves 3 Decrease symptoms/pain

Figure 2: The blood vessels can improve around the nerves much like a tree’s roots grow when watered.

Figure 1: When these very small blood vessels become diseased, they begin to shrivel up and the nerves begin to degenerate.