Peripheral Neuropathy

Burning, Tingling, Numb, Cold Feet, Leg Cramps, Poor Balance?
You May Have Peripheral Neuropathy.
There is Now Hope To Walk, Sleep, and Live Freely Again!!

What is Peripheral Neuropathy (PN)?

The brain and body acts like a supercomputer. The brain sends electrical impulses through nerves to keep your heart beating, lungs breathing, and gut digesting food. They activate muscles so we can move, blink our eyes, and speak.  Each nerve sends constant feedback to the brain so the brain can make adjustments where necessary. Nerves transmit signals about encounters with light, color, sound, temperature, pressure, friction, and injury.

Nerves are the cable system transmitting messages to and from the brain through the spinal column, branching out to your organs, muscles, and skin until everything is connected. Nerves traveling away from the spine are called peripheral nerves. Neuropathy is nerve damage.

Nerves need oxygen, nutrients, unrestricted range of motion, and structural stability to thrive. You mess with any element, and you get nerve damage.

When there is poor circulation inhibiting oxygen and nutrients, or a nerve is being compressed, the damaged nerves can’t signal and communicate to the brain normally. In PN, this damage to the nerves in the hands and feet gets interpreted as burning, pain, tingling, numbness, hypersensitivity, perceived temperature changes, weakness, and balance problems. This is a very serious condition that can lead to debilitating chronic pain because your nerves are literally dying.   

Loss Of Balance From Peripheral Neuropathy

Like other bodily systems, your brain needs information from the nerves in your feet and legs to maintain balance. The nerves in your feet, ankles, and muscles tell the brain if your foot is on the ground, if the ground is level or slanted, and in which direction. Nerves tell the brain if the ground is smooth or rough, if you have more weight on one foot than the other, and if you’re leaning forward or back as the weight shifts from your heels to your toes. Your body makes constant micro-adjustments to compensate for the environment as you move. You know where your feet are and don’t have to watch your every step to stay upright.

Now, take that feedback system away, and you are left with visual and auditory cues as to whether you are standing upright, wobbling, and need to adjust to the terrain. The message is so much faster when it comes from the feet when the brain can make immediate corrections rather than waiting until the body tips enough to alert the inner ear or eyes to the problem. Slower reaction times to a loss of balance means the chances of a nasty fall increase. Small, everyday items like area rugs become a tripping hazard.

Peripheral neuropathy can be a leading cause of poor balance and falls causing from head wounds to broken hips. People might be afraid to participate in friendly get-togethers and favorite pastimes if they’re worried about falling, and that’s no way to live. We want to help you reclaim your independence and regain sensation in your feet/hands.

What Causes Peripheral Neuropathy?

There are numerous causes of peripheral neuropathy, each with its own set of symptoms and prognosis. Some of the most common causes of PN are:

Diabetes: Prolonged elevated blood sugar oxidizes and damages blood vessels, causing damage to the vessel walls that feed nerves nutrients and oxygen.

Nicotine: Nicotine constricts blood vessels, limiting blood flow, oxygen, and nutrients.

Myelin deterioration: Myelin is the insulating sheath surrounding nerves. Toxins and autoimmune disorders like Lupus or Guillain-Barré syndrome can cause the myelin to deteriorate, leaving nerves exposed.

Trauma: Trauma to any of the nerves can cause temporary or permanent damage.

Alcohol: Drinking excess alcohol leads to vitamin B deficiencies. Vitamin B is essential for healthy myelin sheaths. Excessive alcohol can also damage the small blood vessels, feeding and oxygenating the nerves.

Nutritional Deficiencies: Vitamin B, copper, calcium, zinc, magnesium, and other nutrients are necessary for nerve health and functionality.

Genetics: Some genetic conditions cause nerve deterioration.

Infectious Disease: Infectious diseases like Lyme and shingles can also cause nerve damage.

Chemotherapy: While chemotherapy kills cancer cells, it does damage to healthy cells also. A common side effect is peripheral neuropathy.

Medications: Some antidepressants and anti-seizure drugs can cause serious side effects, some of which are worse than the disease they treat.

If PN condition is caught early enough, with time and dedication peripheral neuropathy can be reversed. It is widely misunderstood and understudied in the medical world, and some providers claim nothing can be done to change it, but that’s simply not true. There are now evidence-based treatments that may stop and reverse the underlying cause rather than mask the symptoms with medications. Your future isn’t destined in a wheelchair or a nursing home—not if you take immediate action today.

Our Approach

Restore Health of Va provides peripheral neuropathy and diabetic nerve pain treatment in the Ashburn and surrounding communities of Northern Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC.  We are committed to providing healthy solutions that do not merely mask symptoms. We don’t treat it with medications that can be as harmful as the problem itself. We get to the root of the problem for lasting results without side effects.

While we can’t bring dead nerves back to life, we can help you create an internal environment conducive to healing. It is much like looking at a sick plant. The plant will heal itself if you give it the proper amount of water, sunlight, nutrients, warmth, and fresh air.

With cutting-edge medical-grade equipment, we’ll stimulate your nerves and increase blood flow so more oxygen can flow through your system, making you feel more rejuvenated.

While some of the latest innovations in technology that we have acquired are best done in the office, most of the therapies can be simply performed in the comfort of your home.  This can help save you the cost of multiple visits, days off work, and transportation costs. We give you the tools, can you return for a progress evaluation and treatment adjustments rather than visit our office for multiple weekly sessions.

Our focus is on increasing blood flow, improving oxygenation, and improving nerve regeneration and conductivity.

Custom Treatment Plans: We thoroughly investigate the root cause(s), as you can have more than one cause.  We don't believe in cookie cutter solutions. Everyone has unique challenges that require personalized solutions. Your care plan is tailored to meet your individual needs, using innovative technologies that come together to treat the root of the problem and maximize your body’s healing potential for lasting results.

Nutrition recommendations: A diet with high antioxidant content, whole fruits and vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains decreases inflammation, lowers blood glucose levels, and helps repair oxidized blood vessels.

Individualized exercise regimen: We instruct you in low impact exercises that consider your strengths and challenges. These exercises increase blood flow in the affected areas, ensuring adequate nutrition and oxygen flow to the damaged nerves. Exercise can also help keep blood sugar levels in check, improve overall mood, and relieve muscle tension that may compress nerves.

Office Therapies: These are dependent and customized based of your needs and stage of disease. A sample of what may be included is regenerative low level laser, pulsewave, balance training, joint mobilization, vibrational therapies and traction.

Home Therapy: These are again dependent and customized based of your needs and stage of disease. But may include Red/Infrared light therapy, neuroelectrical regenerative therapy, vibration, nutritional support, and light home exercises.

Budget and Schedule Conscious: We’re conscious of your budget as well as how busy your life can be. That is why, for certain patients, we offer treatment options that do not require you to come into the office. Instead, patients can perform therapies from the comfort of their own homes. That means less time in the car, less gas used, and less hassle. We focus on helping you achieve wellness in the most efficient, ethical, and economical way possible.

What Is Our Success Rate?

Depending on the severity and compliance of each patient, we typically average 30-80% improvement in symptoms and function for those accepted into our program. Correcting the underlying cause can lead to full regeneration if your neuropathy is addressed early enough. Of course, the longer the damage goes unchecked, the higher the likelihood of permanent damage.

Don’t Delay Treatment

The earlier you seek treatment, the better your results. Nerve damage left unchecked can cause permanent harm. Dead nerves cannot heal or regrow, but damaged nerves can heal given the proper conditions and time.

While loss of balance from peripheral neuropathy can be frightening, there are ways to reclaim your independence and improve your quality of life while you work on restoring sensation and your ability to maintain your balance. There is hope. Let us help you find lasting neuropathy relief. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call (703) 777-1234.

Schedule Your Nerve Integrity Evaluation and see if you are a candidate to not only STOP but REVERSE this devastating condition.

What is Included?

• Comprehensive consultation to review how your life is being affected, what you have done, and what your goals are.
• Thermal imaging – detects if you have proper circulation.
• 24-point comprehensive sensory nerve examination. You will be blown away by the detail. 
• Computerized Balance & Fall Prevention Assessment.
• Computerized Foot & Gait Analysis.
• Written report of results and recommendations.

If your tests reveal you are a candidate, we will discuss your options and financial investment, and if your condition has progressed too far, we will be forthright and tell you.