Proactive Management of Peripheral Nerve Disorder

Peripheral nerve disorder affects more than 20 million Americans, impacting patients’ bodies in many ways. The peripheral nerves include everything from sensory to motor and autonomic nerves. These nerves connect the skin, internal organs, and muscles to the spinal cord. And the pain and discomfort associated with them may get exacerbated by factors such as injury, disease, vitamin deficiencies, and inflammation. 

Here’s what your patients need to know about peripheral nerve disorder, who it impacts, and what to do about it.

Defining Peripheral Neuropathic Pain

Your patients should realize individuals experience symptoms of this disorder in a variety of different ways. For example, a person may describe the sensation as numbness, pain, weakness, or tingling in the extremities. Some patients also report a pins-and-needles sensation. 

Patients experience these out-of-the-ordinary sensations because their nerve fibers get damaged, leading to malfunction. As a result, the fibers send the wrong signals to the body’s pain centers. Moreover, where nerve damage occurs, nerve fiber function may be altered. 

Patients Impacted by Peripheral Neuropathy ​

Those most vulnerable to this type of neuropathic pain come from all walks of life. For those among the millions of Americans with diabetes, their odds of experiencing peripheral neuropathy increase by sixty percent. 

But the buck doesn’t stop at diabetes. Other conditions also contribute to the onset of peripheral nerve discomfort. These conditions may include exposure to industrial toxins, chemotherapy, drug use, and alcoholism. As you can see, our contemporary world represents a perfect storm of contributing factors to this ailment. It’s up to you to ensure your patients understand this.

What Does It Feel Like?

Some of the symptoms most widely reported with peripheral neuropathy  include:

• Pain while walking
• Muscle weakness
• Burning pain
• Leg cramps
• Numbness
• Loss of coordination and balance

This is by no means an exhaustive list. But it still provides a point of reference for patients. You should also bear in mind that tingling and burning feelings remain, by far, among the most common symptoms of this condition.

Peripheral Neuropathy and Patient Options

Diabetic neuropathy can come with devastating consequences when left untreated. These consequences include everything from debilitating pain to amputation. 

Roughly 86,000 Americans with untreated neuropathy require amputation annually. That’s why it’s so vital to remain proactive. The best way to do this is by helping your patients create a multi-pronged approach to treating peripheral nerve pain. 

This approach should include proper nutrition and paying attention to patients’ nitric oxide levels. In fact, we recommend testing your patients’ levels every time they visit your practice. They should also incorporate a high-quality, easily absorbable nitric oxide supplement into their daily routine. 

Peripheral Nerve Disorder

Ramping up your patients’ nitric oxide will set the stage for optimal outcomes by using infrared light therapy that releases that gas molecule to enter the endothelial cells and begin the process of vasodilation. Nutrition coupled with light therapy and lifestyle changes monitored by you will contribute to patients with better outcomes.

​Our innovative neuropathy care approach eliminates the shortcomings of other modalities used to treat peripheral neuropathy, making your life easier and your patients’ lives more comfortable. Find out more about our therapeutic approach to peripheral nerve disorder and how to bring the NeuropaCalm Care Program to your pharmacy or clinic.