Vancouver Chiropractic Care of Neuropathy

Nerve pain is neuropathy. Vancouver Disc Centers treats Vancouver neuropathy with Vancouver chiropractic care. Burning, stabbing, numb pain in the arms, hands, feet, leg, toes, fingers is neuropathic pain. Vancouver Disc Centers often sees neuropathy with Vancouver back pain and sciatica. Neuropathy is due to a multitude of potential issues like pinched nerves, spinal stenosis, or pressure from a herniated disc. Vancouver Disc Centers treats all of these conditions with gentle, non-surgical Cox Technic as one element of a Vancouver chiropractic treatment plan. If a nerve is compressed, neuropathy may develop. Neuropathy may extend to the hands and feet depending on the nerve that is irritated. Neuropathy is painful. Neuropathy heals gradually. Vancouver Disc Centers may well assist its heal and relief.

Causes and Symptoms of Neuropathy

Peripheral neuropathy is a type of neuropathy Vancouver Disc Centers sees in Vancouver neck and back pain patients. Peripheral neuropathy stems from damage to peripheral nerves. These nerves are part of the nervous system that sends info from your brain to your spinal cord (which is the central nervous system) and then out to the rest of the body. That potentially allows peripheral neuropathy extend to your toes and fingers. It may be brought on by sudden trauma or injury or by repetitive stress due to compression type injuries from doing certain activities over and over that bother and inflame joints, tendons and muscles.  Vancouver patients will describe peripheral neuropathy as a tingling sensation or sharp, stabbing pain or a numbness or a burning sensation in the hands or feet or as a clumsiness that has you dropping things all the time. (1) Whatever its sensation, peripheral neuropathy may be disruptive, may go away if the peripheral nervous system has a chance to heal itself after injury or the source of the peripheral neuropathy is found and remedied, or may be assisted in healing. This is where Vancouver Disc Centers comes into play to find the source of the neuropathy and offer Vancouver chiropractic care to address it and lessen the irritation on the nerves. One article even shares that 28 days of compression causes disc degeneration while 28 days of decompression reverses it. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers offers Cox Technic to do this!

Healing Ability of Nerves in Neuropathy

Curiously, peripheral nerves have an amazing knack for regenerating themselves after injury. It will take time. One author explains that these nerves regenerate a millimeter a day (about an inch a month), so if the nerve that is damaged goes from your spine to your toes, that may take more time. (3) Researchers report that good but incomplete recovery happens over 2 to 3 years for most patients with sciatic neuropathy (due to spinal nerve compression). Moderate improvement of the symptoms occurs in 30% of sciatic neuropathy patients by 1 year, 50% by 2 years and 75% by 3 years. (4) In a review of published evidence about neuropathic pain, researchers detail that 37% of chronic low back pain (that lasting more than 3 months) cases and 41% of soft tissue syndromes (like ligament or muscle tears) have neuropathic pain. (5) These types of patients are ready for Vancouver chiropractic care at Vancouver Disc Centers

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