Peripheral
NeuropathyÂ
Peripheral Neuropathy Causes Symptoms Treatments Discussed
hello welcome to our webinar today my
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name is dr. Eric Bingham i’m a
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board-certified chiropractic physician
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today as topic is going to be on
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peripheral neuropathy and we’re going to
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talk about how kalmar treatment treats
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peripheral neuropathy what peripheral
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neuropathy is the cause of it and some
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some options for you you know it’s one
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of the common things we treat in our
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office and so we’re excited to be able
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to see if we can help more people with
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this type of condition so first of all I
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like to start off maybe what peripheral
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neuropathy is and proven opti is
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basically a result from nerve damage it
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causes weakness and numbness and pain in
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the hands and feet a lot of people
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describe it as a almost wearing like a
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stocking or a glove on your hand and
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it’s very painful very uncomfortable a
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lot of people describe the symptoms as
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being you know an onset of numbness and
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tingling in the hands and feet burning
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sensation jabbing electrical bike type
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pain they’ll even have skin and nail and
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hair changes on on their feet and on
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your hands lack of coordination where
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they’re just not able to move and use
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their hands and feet as much as they
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would like and a lot of people describe
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is like they they don’t like heat if I
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patients come in that describe they love
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walking on cold tile or keeping their
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feet out of the covers at night they
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don’t like anything touching their feet
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whatsoever a very painful condition and
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difficult to sometimes even diagnose as
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far as what the cause is and so that’s
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the next thing we’ll talk about is is
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what what are some of the causes of it
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and it can be difficult to pinpoint some
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of those factors but I’ll go over a few
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of those that i think are common one of
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them is alcoholism you know with
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alcoholism
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it creates a poor dietary choice for
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people so that leads to vitamin
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deficiencies and that can lead to
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neuropathies there’s autoimmune diseases
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out there like lupus and rheumatoid
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arthritis gullion barre syndrome chronic
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inflammatory conditions a number number
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one I think would be like diabetes a lot
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of people know about peripheral
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neuropathy associated with diabetes i
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would say half of the people with
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diabetes is going to get some type of
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neuropathy in their hands and feet and
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one thing with that when we do treat the
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neuropathy in our office we want people
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to have their diabetes under control and
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and so that’s one thing we can talk to
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you about when you come in other common
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things are medications chemo therapy is
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a huge one i would say forty percent of
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the people that do chemotherapy are
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going to get some type of neuropathy in
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their hands and feet they’re doing
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studies at the Mayo Clinic and the
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massive Cancer Center on with the kalmar
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treatment and treating the the pain
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associated with the chemo drugs and
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having some fantastic results with it
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and other ones could be trauma car
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accidents sports injuries can cause
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severe peripheral nerve damage tumors
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and cancers can cause it and even
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vitamin deficiencies so common ones
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would be b1 b6 b12 those are common ones
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that cause you know if you have a
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deficiency in those those are crucial
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for nerve type of health so encourage
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you to make sure that your symptoms are
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that you’re taking those vitamins to
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help with those symptoms so then the
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next thing that we would do is you know
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is finding the diagnosis you know and
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the way you’re usually your medical
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doctor or whoever you go to and they’re
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going to do a full medical history on
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you their dinner illogical evaluations
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and physical exam
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and and our goal is to find out the
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cause if we can find the cause and treat
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it and get rid of it you know that’s the
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best option but in some cases there’s
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there’s no solution once there’s been
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that nerve damage then then you’re
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there’s no way to to fix it so all we
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can do at that point is actually just
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treat the symptoms and help the symptoms
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feel better and so that’s where i’ll
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talk about you know the treatments
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associated with neuropathy probably the
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main thing that if you went your medical
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doctor or neurologist they’re going to
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give you some medications typically
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anti-seizure medications they found that
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like lyrica gabapentin neurontin you
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know it’s just a very difficult thing to
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treat with neuropathy nerve pain is not
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controlled very well with opiate or
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narcotic type of medications and so they
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found that like topamax and lyrica
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gabapentin run they helped a little bit
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you know it’s probably only option that
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that medically they have to be able to
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treat and help with those symptoms but
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there’s been a new breakthrough with
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this kalmar therapy that it’s a new FDA
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cleared device that treats neuropathic
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pain and we’ve had some phenomenal
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results with that I’ve never seen
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anything work as well as this does in
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those medications they helped a little
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bit but nothing compared to what this
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kalmar therapy does and we’ve just had
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some great success with it i would say
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eighty percent of the people we see you
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know get phenomenal results what’s nice
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about is we can usually find out from
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that first treatment if it is something
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that will probably help them it’s a
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series of 10 treatments that a patient
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will go through on average but that
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first treatment we’re looking for pain
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relief if if we don’t get any pain
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relief then you’re probably not a good
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candidate for this type of therapy but
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when a patient comes in you know we do a
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full workup on a physical evaluation
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medical history and physical exam and to
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see if they are a good candidate for
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this type of therapy and you know it’s I
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had a patient last week that came in she
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was she’s been suffering with peripheral
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neuropathy for 14 years she tried
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everything from medications to nerve
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blocks to acupuncture two creams you
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know you name it she’s tried it and she
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had heard about us and was skeptical
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just because nothing really seemed to
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work for but we were able to get her
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completely out of paint and and that’s
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that’s a common story that we here with
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a lot of patients that come in here and
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you know we’d love to help anybody that
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that’s interested so you know if you
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want to contact us just give me give me
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a call our contact information is it’s
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ways to try to find out about us and
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when you contact us will be able to kind
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of talk to you over the phone and see if
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you are a candidate and and we offer a
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free evaluation free treatment on the
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first treatment to see if you are a good
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candidate to really have nothing to lose
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um so give us a call thanks for thanks
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for joining us on the webinar
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