Living with peripheral neuropathy day to day — what makes symptoms worse, how to protect insensate feet, and which changes are worth acting on.
Living with neuropathy Foods to avoid with neuropathy in your feet, and why No food causes neuropathy on its own, and none cures it. A short list does make it worse or keep it going, and the reasons are specific enough to act on without turning eating into a second illness. Written by the Managing … Read more
Diagnosis Nerve conduction study and EMG: what to expect Two tests, usually done in one sitting. One sends small electrical pulses along a nerve and times them. The other listens to a muscle through a fine needle. Here is what they measure, how they feel, and what a normal result does and does not rule … Read more
Diagnosis The monofilament test: the 10-gram foot exam, explained A thin nylon filament, pressed against the sole until it bends, answers one question that matters more than any other in a numb foot: can you still feel enough to be warned before an injury becomes an ulcer? Written by the Managing Neuropathy editorial team under … Read more
Balance and strength moves that lower fall risk with neuropathy, how to do them safely on numb feet, and the exercises worth skipping or adapting.
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.
Numbness that comes and goes needs different steps from numbness that stays. What to do right now, which causes improve with treatment, and when to go.
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.