Is Neuropathy a Disability? What Actually Qualifies
Neuropathy can qualify, but never automatically. Three systems use the word, and in each the documented description of function outweighs the diagnosis.
Living with peripheral neuropathy day to day — what makes symptoms worse, how to protect insensate feet, and which changes are worth acting on.
Neuropathy can qualify, but never automatically. Three systems use the word, and in each the documented description of function outweighs the diagnosis.
Ordinary peripheral neuropathy is not directly fatal. The risk is indirect and specific: unfelt foot injury, falls.
Positional numbness passes in minutes; persistent numbness will not stop until the cause is found — and several common causes genuinely improve when treated.
Five specialties treat different parts of peripheral neuropathy, and starting with the wrong one costs months.
Some things accelerate nerve damage; others only make tonight louder. A podiatrist-led separation of what actually drives progression.