SUN STROKE OR HEAT STROKE AND HOMEOPATHIC MANAGEMENT

                                                     SUN STROKE OR HEAT STROKE

Other names:- sun stroke, heat stroke and  heat hyperpyrexia.

DEFINITION:-

                Heat stroke or sun stroke is a state of hyperpyrexia, convulsions, delirium or coma following exposure to excessive atmospheric temperature (shade temperature above 110 F). the body temperature suddenly shoots to 42 – 43 C (107 – 110 F).

AETIOLOGY OR CAUSES:-

-          Heat stroke or sun stroke is caused by a derangement of the heat controlling mechanism.

-          It’s a commonest condition in India and other tropical countries.

-          In this country, it occurs during hot summer months (especially during spells of hot wave) due to direct exposure to the sun while working outdoors.

-          White peoples or persons unaccustomed to such a situation are specially prone to have such an attack.

-          Debilitating conditions, alcoholism, febril conditions and factors that interfere with sweating (e.g improper clothing) are pre disposing factors.

-          Some cases of heat exhaustion may develop heat stroke (secondary heat hyperpyrexia).

-          The brain is primarily affected. There is congestion and increased in intracranial tension. Degenerative changes occurs in brain cells, particularly in the hypothalamic region and base of the brain (including the cerebellum).

-          Due to renal shutdown, glomerular and tubular degeneration occurs in the kidneys. Necrosis also occurs in the liver. There is haemmorrhagic tendency due to intravascular coagulation.

      SYMPTOMS:-

-          The onset is sudden.

-          There is a history of exposure to the sun for some time.

-          Headache.

-          Vomiting.

-          Dizziness.

-          Mental confusion and in-coordination.

-          Convulsions may occur in children.

-          The patient soon becomes delirious and finally, unconscious.

-          On examination, the face is flushed and the skin is hot and dry.

-          The temperature is raised to 42C (107F) or above. There is complete absence of sweating.

-          The pulse is rapid and the respiration is hurried. The pupils are dilated.

-          Towards the terminal stage, convulsions occur, breathing is irregular and pupils are constricted.

-          There is either Oliguria or complete anuria, transient cardiac arrhythmias may occur.

-          Right sided cardiac failure or peripheral circulatory failure may occur.

DIAGNOSIS:-

The diagnosis can be made on the basis of the following.

-          History of long exposure to heat.

-          Hyperpyrexia (temperature shooting above 106F).

-          Absence of sweating.

-          Exclusion from other causes of hyperpyrexia such as malaria, pontine haemorrhage, meningitis, over whelming sepsis and terminal stage of liver failure.

TREATMENT:-

-          The aim of therapy is to bring down the elevated or raised temperature to a safe level or normal level as rapidly as possible.

-          This may be achieved by continuous sponging with ice-cold water or ice bath together with ice water enema. Evaporation should be encouraged by means of fans.

-          The patient usually regains consciousness and the body temperature falls unless brain is irreparably damaged.

-          If coma persists lumbar puncture is indicated to relive the raised intracranial pressure.

-          Chlorpromazine is indicated and repeated after ½ hour if the patient is delirious and restless.

-          Lytic cocktail (chlorpromazine phenargan and pethidine 50 mg each) may be given for reducing raised temperature.

-          When heat stroke is secondary to heat exhaustion, adequate water and salt replacement is essential. Danger of pulmonary oedema due to administration of intravenous fluids must be remembered.

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT:-

                Some of the medicines for sun stroke or heat stroke are given below.

1.       ACONITE.

2.       AMYLAMINUM.

3.       ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.

4.       ARNICA MONTONA.

5.       ARSENICUM ALBUM.

6.       BELLADONNA.

7.       CACTUS.

8.       CAMPHORA.

9.       CARBO VEG.

10.   GELSEMIUM.

11.   GLONINE.

12.   NATRUM CARB.

13.   NATRUM MUR.

14.   OPIUM.

15.   THERIDION.

16.   VERATRUM ALBUM.

17.   VERATRUM VIRIDAE.

18.   ARGENTUM METALICUM.

19.   LACHESIS.

20.   THUJA.

Autonomic Neuropathy Can Affect Your Whole Body

Today's post from neuropathydr.com (see link below) looks at the dangers of peripheral neuropathy progressing to autonomic neuropathy, although you will need to use the search facility here on the right of the blog to find more detailed articles about autonomic neuropathy (there are plenty). Basically, autonomic neuropathy is when your nerve damage begins to affect functions that you take for granted and have no control over (breathing, digestion, sexual function, blood pressure, sweating, to name but a few). It can seriously affect your quality of life and it's important to be aware of the possibility. Some neuropathy causes are more likely to lead to autonomic problems than others (for instance, diabetes, cancer and HIV) but that's not a hard and fast rule. it's important to look out for the signs and alert your doctor or specialist as soon as possible.
 

Neuropathy Pain Is Serious Business! The Hidden Dangers of Autonomic Neuropathy
Posted by Editor on January 1, 2015
 
Neuropathy Pain Can Lead to Serious and Life-Threatening Nerve Damage. Here’s What You Need to Know for Your Long-Term Health.

You already know that neuropathy pain can significantly impair your quality of life on a daily basis, and in a long-term way. But did you realize that ignoring neuropathy pain can actually contribute to the development of life-threatening illness?

When there is nerve damage to your autonomic systems (the parts of your body that function automatically, like digestion and blood pressure), these systems are likely to stop behaving like they should. This is called autonomic neuropathy, and it can actually threaten your life. Any impairment of autonomic systems is an immediate danger to your health.

When are you at risk for autonomic neuropathy? You should consult a qualified neuropathy physician if you have any of these conditions that are frequently associated with neuropathic pain and damage from autonomic neuropathy:

Diabetes
Cancer that is being treated with chemotherapy
AIDS or HIV
Lupus

It is also extremely important for you to seek the support of a NeuropathyDR® clinician if you are experiencing any of these nerve damage symptoms:

Unusual sweating
Dizziness
Tingling or numbness in extremities
Change in the way you feel sense hot and cold temperatures
Sexual problems
Loss of ability to control your limbs or fingers and toes

You might also be in a high-risk category for developing autonomic neuropathy related to neuropathic pain if you have had a severe injury or amputation. In these cases, be sure to see a NeuropathyDR® clinician for a consultation now, instead of waiting for symptoms to develop.

There are times when a trained physician can detect nerve damage before any symptoms arise, and early intervention in treatment is key—not just to quality of life over time in terms of neuropathy pain, but also avoiding life-threatening scenarios related to autonomic neuropathy.

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HANDSHAKES MAY ENGAGE OUR SENSE OF SMELL

Why do people shake hands? A new Weizmann Institute study suggests one of the reasons for this ancient custom may be to check out each other's odors. Even if we are not consciously aware of this, handshaking may provide people with a socially acceptable way of communicating via the sense of smell

Not only do people often sniff their own hands, but they do so for a much longer time after shaking someone else's hand, the study has found. As reported today in the journal eLife, the number of seconds the subjects spent sniffing their own right hand more than doubled after an experimenter greeted them with a handshake.

"Our findings suggest that people are not just passively exposed to socially-significant chemical signals, but actively seek them out," said Idan Frumin, the research student who conducted the study under the guidance of Prof. Noam Sobel of Weizmann's Neurobiology Department. "Rodents, dogs and other mammals commonly sniff themselves, and they sniff one another in social interactions, and it seems that in the course of evolution, humans have retained this practice -- only on a subliminal level."

To examine whether handshakes indeed transfer body odors, the researchers first had experimenters wearing gloves shake the subjects' bare hands, then tested the glove for smell residues. They found that a handshake alone was sufficient for the transfer of several odors known to serve as meaningful chemical signals in mammals. "It's well known that germs can be passed on through skin contact in handshakes, but we've shown that potential chemical messages, known as chemosignals, can be passed on in the same manner," Frumin says.

Next, to explore the potential role of handshakes in communicating odors, the scientists used covert cameras to film some 280 volunteers before and after they were greeted by an experimenter, who either shook their hand or didn't. The researchers found that after shaking hands with an experimenter of the same gender, subjects more than doubled the time they later spent sniffing their own right hand (the shaking one). In contrast, after shaking hands with an experimenter of the opposite gender, subjects increased the sniffing of their own left hand (the non-shaking one). "The sense of smell plays a particularly important role in interactions within gender, not only across gender as commonly assumed," Frumin says.

The scientists then performed a series of tests to make sure the hand-sniffing indeed served the purpose of checking out odors and was not merely a stress-related response to a strange situation. First, they measured nasal airflow during the task and found that subjects were truly sniffing their hands and not just lifting them to their nose. It turned out that the amount of air inhaled by the volunteers through the nose doubled when they brought their hands to their face. Next, the scientists found they could manipulate the hand-sniffing by artificially introducing different smells into the experimental setting. For example, when experimenters were tainted with a commercial unisex perfume, the hand-sniffing increased. In contrast, when the experimenters were tainted with odors derived from sex hormones, the sniffing decreased. These final tests confirmed the olfactory nature of the hand-sniffing behavior.

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"Handshakes vary in strength, duration and posture, so they convey social information of various sorts," says Prof. Sobel. "But our findings suggest that at its evolutionary origins, handshaking might have also served to convey odor signals, and such signaling may still be a meaningful, albeit subliminal, component of this custom."

Can Acupuncture Work For Neuropathy

Another long but extremely useful article from pain-topics.org (see link below) today. It discusses a new study trying to determine once and for all, the usefulness of acupuncture in relieving chronic pain. It's a long-running argument, with many people swearing by the effectiveness of acupuncture and many others putting down any benefits to a placebo effect. The layman might reasonably think that acupuncture might have beneficial effects on nerve damage - it just seems logical, especially when you think that the needles are placed on acupuncture points along the main nerve pathways. However, whether that's more wishful thinking than fact is discussed here. One thing is sure; if you go ahead with acupuncture (which more often than not will not be covered by your insurance) then you should always go to someone who knows what they're doing; preferably someone who also has a doctor's qualification.

 

Acupuncture Aids Chronic Pain – Sort Of

Thursday, September 13, 2012

The largest and most rigorous study to date, employing a meticulous data meta-analysis, provides evidence that acupuncture is more than just an elaborate placebo for treating chronic pain. However, placebo effects do appear to play a considerable role and the contribution of the type and quality of acupuncture itself may be of relatively minor consequence. So, the debate over the value of acupuncture in chronic pain management seems unsettled.

Writing in an advance online edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine, Andrew J. Vickers, DPhil, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and colleagues used data from previously published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) encompassing nearly 18,000 patients from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and Sweden [Vickers et al. 2012]. Going beyond the usual rigors of meta-analysis, the authors acquired individual patient data from 29 high quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing acupuncture with either sham (placebo) acupuncture or no acupunture (ie, usual care) in 3 chronic pain conditions: back and neck (musculoskeletal) pain, osteoarthritis, and chronic headache.

Patients in all RCTs had access to analgesics and other standard treatments for their pain, so either true acupuncture or sham acupuncture was an add-on therapy. Sham acupuncture, representing a placebo-control condition, included needles inserted superficially or at non-acupuncture points, devices with needles that retracted into the handle rather than penetrating the skin, or non-needle approaches such as deactivated electrical stimulation or detuned laser.

Results of this study, funded by the U.S. Natonal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), suggest beneficial effects of accupuncture. After adjustments to eliminate biases unduly favoring acupuncture, the following standardized effect sizes were reported:

1. Patients receiving acupuncture had less pain, with effect sizes of 0.23 (95% CI, 0.13-0.33), 0.16 (95% CI, 0.07-0.25), and 0.15 (95% CI, 0.07-0.24) Standard Deviations (SD) in comparison with sham acupuncture controls for back and neck (musculoskeletal) pain, osteoarthritis, and chronic headache, respectively.
2. Standardized effect sizes for acupuncture in comparison to no acupuncture controls (ie, usual care) were 0.55 (95% CI, 0.51-0.58), 0.57 (95% CI, 0.50-0.64), and 0.42 (95% CI, 0.37-0.46) SD for back and neck (musculoskeletal) pain, osteoarthritis, and chronic headache, respectively.

These results were robust to a variety of sensitivity analyses, including those accounting for possible publication bias and weaknesses in some of the included trials. The statistically significant effects of true versus sham acupuncture in the first analysis above indicate that acupuncture is more than merely a placebo; however, the researchers concede that the effect sizes, representing differences between the two approaches, are relatively small.

The authors conclude that factors in addition to the specific effects of needling are important contributors to the therapeutic efficacy of acupuncture. Additionally, even though effect sizes for acupuncture compared with usual care in relieving pain are only moderate, the researchers advise that acupuncture is effective for the treatment of chronic pain and is therefore a “reasonable referral option.”

COMMENTARY:
According to background information in the Vickers et al. article, an estimated 3 million adults in the United States alone receive acupuncture treatment each year. Yet, they add that the lack of an accepted biological mechanism to explain the physiological effects of this therapy, and its provenance in theories and practices outside of traditional medicine, still make acupuncture highly controversial.

In a commentary accompanying the Vickers et al. article, Andrew L. Avins, MD, MPH — of Kaiser-Permanente, Northern California Division of Research, Oakland — notes that the debate over acupuncture as a bona fide therapy for pain is ongoing [Avins 2012]. To date, at least 60 meta-analyses addressing unresolved questions surrounding acupuncture have been conducted without reaching definitive answers.

Research and arguments on both sides of the debate have been presented in various Pain-Topics UPDATES [here]. In the most recent UPDATE on this topic [here], Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD and others discuss broad-scale reviews of the scientific literature on acupuncture, finding that evidence in its favor for a variety of pain conditions is equivocal, inconsistent, or inconclusive in many cases.

This meta-analysis by Vickers et al. was indisputably thorough and rigorous, involving dozens of scientists from multiple countries over a period of years. Their extensive search uncovered 955 studies for consideration, attesting to the extent and diversity of research on acupuncture, but also to the inferior quality of so much of the research. The research team identified only 31 high quality studies meeting their stringent inclusion criteria and were able to obtain individual data records for 29 of those to perform their very exacting meta-analyses. That is, they did their own calculations of outcome results, not relying on those of the original study authors.

The findings of the meta-analysis are scientifically and clinically important; however, the authors acknowledge the following regarding the effects of acupuncture found in their data:

“…an important part of these total effects is not due to issues considered to be crucial by most acupuncturists, such as the correct location of points and depth of needling. Several lines of argument suggest that acupuncture (whether real or sham) is associated with more potent placebo or context effects than other interventions. Yet, many clinicians would feel uncomfortable in providing or referring patients to acupuncture if it were merely a potent placebo. Similarly, it is questionable whether national or private health insurance should reimburse therapies that do not have specific effects.

Our finding that acupuncture has effects over and above those of sham acupuncture is therefore of major importance for clinical practice. Even though on average these effects are small, the clinical decision made by physicians and patients is not between true and sham acupuncture but between a referral to an acupuncturist or avoiding such a referral. The total effects of acupuncture, as experienced by the patient in routine practice, include both the specific effects associated with correct needle insertion according to acupuncture theory, nonspecific physiologic effects of needling, and nonspecific psychological (placebo) effects related to the patient's belief that treatment will be effective.”

Also, it should be emphasized, as noted earlier, that acupuncture did not exert effects in isolation from “usual medical care,” since in all cases acupuncture (or sham acupuncture) was add-on therapy. So, effects of acupuncture, though modest, were beyond and above those typically achievable by pharmacotherapy or other traditional treatments for chronic pain.

However, it is difficult to assess just what those added benefits of acupuncture might be and their clinical impact. Effect sizes were presented in the meta-analysis as standard deviation units (essentially Cohen’s d scores). For example, the favorable effect=0.57 SD of acupuncture for osteoarthritis would denote an improvement of roughly a 1/2 standard deviation on the end-point measurement scale used to assess pain, functionality, or something else.

Vickers and colleagues note that, in deriving effect sizes, their meta-analysis combined different end points, such as pain and function, measured at different times. Despite this variation, they claim that their results were stable; for example, effect sizes generally did not change when analyses were restricted to only pain end points and measured at specific follow-up times (eg, 2 to 3 months after randomization). However, as Avins notes in his commentary, these standardized effect sizes can be problematic when trying to assign absolute measures of improvement.

Vickers et al. believe that their overall observed estimate of roughly 0.50 SD favoring acupuncture over usual care is of clear clinical importance, but Avins observes that this is difficult to substantiate. The clinical relevance of this would vary with the outcome being assessed (eg, pain, functionality, mood, etc.), how it is being measured, and the standard deviation. For example, given a hypothetical average baseline osteoarthritis pain score of 60mm on a 0-to-100mm VAS and a standard deviation of 20mm, acupuncture might exert an 18% improvement of about 11mm (0.57 effect size X 20mm) and patients would still have moderate pain measuring 49mm on the VAS. A recent UPDATE [here] discussed research finding that 12mm denotes the Minimum Clinically Significant Difference (MCSD) in a VAS score that is perceived by patients as being of any consequence. So, from a patient’s perspective, would this sort of benefit be sufficient to justify the time, inconvenience, and expense of acupuncture?

Another disquieting aspect is the admitted placebo aspect of acupuncture. Although Avins argues in his commentary that placebo-based mechanisms have a place in pain management practice, he also recognizes that in traditional medicine new therapies must clearly show superiority over placebo to gain regulatory approval. In the Vickers et al. meta-analysis, acupuncture compared with sham/placebo demonstrated statistically significant improvements but only small effect sizes (0.15 to 0.23 SD) that might not be considered of clinical significance. If acupuncture were judged according to the same stringent criteria as a pharmacotherapy would it be approved by regulatory agencies?

Unfortunately, the Vickers et al. meta-analysis does not examine sham/placebo acupuncture compared with usual care, so the differential effects attributable to acupuncture alone, devoid of the placebo component, cannot be calculated. Still, Avins argues for an appreciation of placebo effects, writing…

“Perhaps the recognition that some patients find benefit in CAM therapies (many of which may, indeed, operate primarily through placebo mechanisms) should force us to examine our perceptions of placebo effects and question why so many of us feel threatened by their existence. …. At the end of the day, our patients seek our help to feel better and lead longer and more enjoyable lives. It's ideal to understand the mechanism of action, which carries the potential for developing more and better interventions. But the ultimate question is: does this intervention work (or, more completely, do its benefits outweigh its risks and justify its cost)?”

Through their meta-analysis, Vickers and colleagues reveal evidence that benefits of acupuncture, while modest, may provide advantages going beyond usual care for patients with diverse types of chronic pain. At the same time, considerable therapeutic effects may be due to factors such as a patient’s belief that treatment will be helpful, as well as placebo and other context effects, while a much smaller acupuncture-specific component may or may not involve such issues as specific needling points and the type or depth of needling. All of this may be unsatisfactory to what Avins calls “the quack-hunter community” who continue to argue against the validity of CAM therapies that rely more on placebo or other nonspecific effects than validated biological mechanisms of action.

REFERENCES:
> Avins AL. Needling the Status Quo: Comment on “Acupuncture for Chronic Pain.” Arch Intern Med. 2012(Sep); 172(11):1-2 [abstract here].
> Vickers AJ, Cronin AM, Maschino AC, et al. Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med. 2012(Sep);172(11):1-10 [abstract here].

http://updates.pain-topics.org/2012/09/acupuncture-aids-chronic-pain-sort-of.html

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TAILORED ACTIVITY COACHING BY SMARTPHONE

Today's smartphone user can obtain a lot of data about his or her health, thanks to built-in or separate sensors. Researcher Harm op den Akker of the University of Twente (CTIT Institute) now takes this health monitoring to a higher level. Using the system he developed, the smartphone also acts as an 'activity coach': it advices the user to walk or take a rest. In what way the user wants to be addressed, is typically something the system learns by itself. Op den Akker conducted his research at Roessingh Research and Development in Enschede. October 17, he defends his PhD-thesis

The new telemedicine system was tested for three months, among a group of COPD patients -- a chronic lung disease. For these patients, physical activity is very important but it can also lead to an oppressed feeling and thus, to over-cautiousness. Using the coaching system of Van den Akker, the patients carry a small movement sensor and a smartphone. The system calculates if it is advisable to take a rest or, on the other hand, have a walk. The system is 'context aware': it looks at the time of day, the weather, the surroundings of the patient and determines if the time is right for taking some exercise.

Tone of voice

In addition, the system knows how the patient wants to be addressed. Some people don't mind an imperative tone of voice 'go for a 10 minutes' walk', others prefer a more friendly advice: 'what if you would take a walk in the park?' Op den Akker designed learning algorithms for this: the system learns the preferences of the user by itself. Future versions of the system may not use text messages anymore, but an 'avatar' on the screen, enabling interaction with the user as well. For this, Op den Akker has started starting cooperation with the Human Media Interaction group of the University of Twente.

Roessingh Research & Development (RRD) is the research department of Roessingh rehabilitation centre in Enschede, The Netherlands. RRD closely cooperates with the University of Twente in many projects. Op den Akker conducted his research at RRD and UT's CTIT Institute, under supervision of Hermie Hermens, Professor in Neuromuscular Control and Telemedicine. A spin-off company of the university, Inertia Technology, developed the movement sensor used in this project.

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New Book About Neuropathy Jan 2014

Today's post from novapublishers.com (see link below) is another advertisement for a new book about Neuropathy. We normally don't advertise for publishers, in the same way that we don't advertise for clinics or private companies but if the book seems to be a taking a slightly different approach, it may offer more information to its readers than the standard texts. There are many books about neuropathy available and this one does state that they aim to 'challenge' their readers, which may mean that it's difficult to read, however, ordering it via a library, or glancing through in a bookshop may help with your decision as to whether it's going to help you or not. It does discuss neuropathies associated with HIV infection, where many others avoid the subject completely.

Contemporary Issues in Peripheral Neuropathy

Editors: Daniel L. Menkes (UCHC Neurology Department, Farmington, Connecticut, USA)

Book Description: There are many books on polyneuropathy available that are comprehensive in nature. Many of these are encyclopedic in their scope. However, there are very few books that review the basics of clinical neurophysiological testing, genetics and the commonly encountered neuropathies. There are even fewer that are willing to address less commonly encountered neuropathies such as amyloidosis and neuropathies associated with HIV infection. Many such textbooks also avoid interdisciplinary topics such as the management of pelvic floor dysfunction and the surgical treatment of compression and traumatic neuropathies. This book addresses this void by dividing this book into three distinct sections. The first three chapter section addresses basic clinical neurophysiological techniques, genetic testing and the inherited neuropathies. The larger middle section addresses acquired demyelinating neuropathies, monoclonal gammopathies, HIV neuropathy and familial amyloidosis. The final section concludes with a summary of neuropathies affecting pelvic function and a plastic surgeon’s approach to the treatment of compression and traumatic neuropathies. The authors who wrote these chapters have extensive expertise in these topics such that the literature review was comprehensive. The final chapter on the surgical treatment of compression neuropathies may be viewed as controversial by some and even heretical by others but it provides a unique perspective on the management of patients who are symptomatic and yet have relatively unremarkable clinical and electrodiagnostic investigations. The reader will find up to date information on a variety of topics; common and uncommon. This book attempts to educate as well as challenge the reader. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)

Table of Contents: Preface Chapter 1. The Role of Clinical Neurophysiology in the Diagnosis of Peripheral Neuropathies (Elisabeth Chroni, Department of Neurology, University of Patras, Greece) Chapter 2. Role of Genetic Testing in Peripheral Neuropathy (Charles H. Whitaker, University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington, Connecticut, USA and others) Chapter 3. Hereditary Peripheral Neuropathies (Meriem Tazir, Mounia Bellatache and Sonia Nouioua, Service de Neurologie, CHU Mustapha Bacha, Algiers, Algeria, and others) Chapter 4. Guillain–Barré Syndrome (Akiyuki Hiraga, Masahiro Mori and Satoshi Kuwabara, Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan) Chapter 5. Evolving Concepts in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) (Paolo Ripellino, Thomas Fleetwood, Roberto Cantello and Cristoforo Comi, Department of Translational Medicine, Section of Neurology and Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Autoimmune Diseases (IRCAD), Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Italy) Chapter 6. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy in Children: A Pediatric Neurologist's Perspective (Christian Ionita, Connecticut Children's Medical Center/University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, USA) Chapter 7. Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance and Polyneuropathy (Kam Newman, Ihab El-Hemaidi, Jagar A. Jasem and Mojtaba Akhtari, Section of Transfusion Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and others) Chapter 8. Peripheral Neuropathies in HIV Infection (Maurizio Osio, Caterina Nascimbene, Alessandra Vanotti and Cristoforo Comi, Neurology Department. University of Milan, "L. Sacco" Hospital, Milan, Italy and others) Chapter 9. Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (FAP): Clinical Features, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (Mª Teresa Tomás, Helena Santa-Clara, Élia Mateus and Estela Monteiro, Exercise and Health Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Human Performance, Lisbon, Portugal and others) Chapter 10. Peripheral Neuropathy in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (Consuelo Valles-Antuna and Jesus M. Fernandez-Gomez, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain) Chapter 11. The Surgical Treatment of Peripheral Neuropathies: A Plastic Surgeon’s Perspective (Sean Wolfort, Surgery Department, Florida State University, and University of Central Florida, Florida, USA) Index

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How Can You Train Your Pain Away

Today's post from catherinecarrigan.com (see link below) discusses what Eckhart Tolle calls the 'pain body'. Now depending on your attitude towards mindfulness, alternative healing and ancient treatment techniques, you may either read this with horror, or allow yourself to be open to other ways of thinking about your chronic pain. I swing both ways in that regard and freely admit that I need to be in the mood for this sort of article. However, that doesn't mean that it doesn't have value - I think it does and if you can read the article and open yourself to new ways of approaching your pain, you may gain a great deal of benefit from it. A great many people have benefited from this sort of looking at your body,  so don't be too quick in dismissing it as mumbo-jumbo. It's an interesting article, that after you've read it, seems to make perfect sense. Worth a read: it may get you thinking and if the pills aren't working at the moment, what have you got to lose?.

What Is The Pain Body?
Posted on Apr 4, 2016 by Catherine Carrigan in Blog

To free yourself from pain and suffering, you must have a deeper understanding of your pain body and the way it actually works.


What Your Body Really Is

To understand your pain body, you would need to understand the way that I, as a medical intuitive healer, view your whole body:

You have a physical body, which includes your muscles, bones, glands and organs.
You have an energy body, which includes your chakras, your acupuncture meridians and your breath.
You have an emotional body, which includes your emotions and all your feelings including the ones you do not have words for quite yet.
You have an intellectual body, which includes your mind, your thoughts and your beliefs.
Finally, you have a spiritual body, which is the part of you beyond all space and time. Many people refer to this as your soul.

Simply put, your pain body is the same thing as your emotional body.

Emotions can shut down literally any other level of your being.

Don’t believe me?

A Story of How Emotional Pain Changed Me Physically

Let me tell you a story.

In 2004 I was on vacation in Los Angeles.

I was driving a rental car in Santa Monica on the way to attend a yoga class when my cell phone rang.

My beloved professor from Brown University, Kermit Champa, had just died.

Up until that point, I had spoken to him virtually every week of my life for 24 years. He had brought me through the hard times, the good times, he had helped me understand myself and been the father I always wanted and never had. And then he was gone.

Even though I was well rested, well fed and eager to practice yoga, when I arrived at the class, all I could do was lie on my mat barely able to move.

Suddenly I felt like all my energy had evaporated.

Perhaps you can relate a similar experience where a sudden emotional experience changed literally everything about you!

What Controls What In Your Body

Here’s how this all works together:
Your spiritual body controls your intellectual body.
Your intellectual body controls your emotional body.
Your emotional body controls your energy body.
Your energy body controls your physical body.

Simply understanding this fact can save you years of pain and suffering.

The Levels of Power In Your Body

You can think of each of these bodies as levels of power:

Your soul controls your mind. That’s why, as we develop our spirituality, we can become mentally stronger and more capable of withstanding the vicissitudes of life. That is why many frail elderly people have become like spiritual warriors. Even though they may not be as physically strong as they used to be, they become a great source of strength for their entire community.
Your mind controls your emotions. As you look for the wisdom rather than the hurt in all life’s challenges, you can save yourself tremendous emotional pain. That’s why thinking positively, looking on the bright side, having a sense of humor and reframing your challenges can soften the blows you feel emotionally.
Your emotions control your energy. You can learn how to feel your feelings and let them go – as opposed to either running away from them through addictions like drugs (legal and illegal), alcohol, sex, overworking and the hundreds of other ways you can ignore what’s really going on. A good way to think of emotions is that they are a process. As you develop healthy stress management skills you can process through the inevitable hurts more easily. I often work with young teens and have tremendous compassion because they have not yet learned how to handle all their emotions and can quite easily be derailed by disappointment, divorce, death and the challenges of growing up. No matter what our age, the more you develop healthy methods of handling your emotions, the healthier you will be in every way. You can download a FREE chart about how stress affects your body at this link on my website. It’s quite humbling to learn what ailments are related to our inability to cope with the stress in our lives.

Your energy body, which includes your chakras, your acupuncture meridians and your breath, controls your physical. That is why when your chi is depleted you can feel so physically weak.

Your Physical Body Is Simply Your Result

Your physical body is simply the densest part of who you are.

A good way to think of your physical body is that it is the result.

Your physical body is the result of your energy, your emotions, your mind and your soul.

By the time you experience pain and suffering, the causes of that pain and suffering have been with you for some time.

That’s because energy enters in through your spiritual, filters down into your mind, then your emotions, then your energy body and finally congeals in your physical body.

If I am working with a client to relieve pain and suffering, I have to reverse the process.

That means you have to move the vibration of pain and suffering back out of your physical, through your energy, through your emotions, through your mind and all the way past your spiritual self.

Simply put, pain comes in through your spiritual, past the gateway of your mind, into your emotions where things can get quite tumultuous, through your energy and finally into your physical organs, glands, bones and muscles.

To get rid of pain, you have to reverse the process.

That’s why – if you have only been working to get rid of pain through your physical body – you may not have been too successful.

You have to honor who you really are and take into account all five bodies to get rid of your pain and suffering.

How Energy Flows In Your Body

Yesterday I was working with a new client who had been suffering from chronic low back pain.

Although she had worked regularly with a chiropractor, massage therapist and cranio sacral therapist, improved her nutrition and started practicing yoga, nothing could get rid of the chronic nagging pain on the right side.

She came to me for a medical intuitive reading.

Very quickly I explained that 30 percent of her pain was due to a low functioning right kidney, 40 percent due to severe adrenal burnout and the last 30 percent due to spiritual loneliness as her soul was longing for companionship of like-minded people.

Even though she is happily married, has two well-behaved children and a fulfilling part-time job, she admitted she had been longing for people she could really talk to about the things that her soul had begun to perceive.

“If you think I’m tired now you should have seen me years ago,” she told me.

Her self care and great attitude had indeed made a difference, but not cleared her low back pain completely.

I explained to her the way energy flows in the body:
Energy enters at the crown of your head through the bahui point.
The hara line is a vertical electrical current running through the bahui all the way down into the center of the earth. Any breaks, blowouts or disruptions in your hara line can lead to major disruptions in the flow of your energy. I can heal your hara line and also teach you how to perceive it and heal it yourself.
Your hara line feeds energy into your chakras. People who practice energy exercise such as yoga, tai chi and qi gong are doing themselves a wonderful favor by balancing the energy centers in their bodies. This is why I have taught yoga for 20 years and practiced and taught qi gong for about as long. Although these forms of exercise may be gentle, their benefits are quite profound. The more balanced your chakras, the more balanced your endocrine system and every organ system in your body will be. In addition to energy exercise, you can visit a highly trained energy healer such as myself to clean out and repair your chakras.

Your chakras feed your acupuncture meridians. I practice acupressure (without needles) as well as Reiki and other forms of energy healing. A block in your acupuncture meridians may be the cause of your pain.
Your acupuncture meridians feed your organs. In the case of my client, after all her chiropractic, massage, craniosacral therapy, yoga and good nutrition, it was a surprise for her to hear that her right kidney and right adrenal gland was partially the source of her pain. Energy work – whether it be energy exercise or energy healing – can build the chi in your organs.
Your organs feed your muscles. If you have a chronic muscle pain, you can learn which organs that muscle is related to. If you want to understand the health of your organs, you can download this FREE assessment on my website at this link. The healthier your organs, the less pain you will feel.

Your entire body is like one big hologram with each aspect deeply interrelated to other aspects of yourself.

When you suffer pain, the more you inquire about how these different aspects correlate, the more likely you are to root out the causes and resolve the issue.

Every Organ Carries Emotions That May Be Adding to Your Pain Body

If you visit my website, you can download a FREE chart that lists out the emotions that correlate with the major organs in your body. Just click on this link.

Let’s just take one organ for example.

Your large intestine acupuncture meridian of course relates to your colon.

The muscles that it correlates with include your quadratus lumborum muscle in your lower back as well as your hamstrings. If you have low back pain, more than likely these muscles are highly involved in your suffering.

That is why if you came to me for corrective exercise and therapeutic yoga for low back pain, more than likely I would recommend exercises to lengthen your hamstrings and balance the two sides of your quadratus lumborum muscles.

The emotions associated with your large intestine include:
Guilt
Grief
Regret
Release
Self worth (or lack thereof)
Enthusiasm
Depression
Letting go
Indifference
(Un)merciful
Compassion
Sadness
Apathy

Now Here’s the Truth: What You Experience Is In You, Not Out There

Most of the time we believe that world outside of us is the cause of the emotions that we feel.

As a long-time medical intuitive healer, I am here to tell you the truth.

What you feel is inside of you.

If you feel angry, you will look out into the world and find things to feel angry, bitter and upset about.

If you feel depressed, you will look out and find 100 reasons to feel sorrowful.

As you change your inner experience, the world you experience changes also.

You Can Not Get Rid Of Your Pain Until and Unless You Shift Your Emotions

If I am doing a healing – no matter whether that healing is to get rid of the pain in your back, help you improve your business, get to the bottom of your money issues or to improve your relationship with your mother – after setting the goal, the very next thing I do is find the emotion or emotions that have kept your suffering in place.

Why is this so important?

Simply put, you can not get rid of your pain until and unless you have resolved the emotions that have held it in place.

If you don’t, you simply morph that energy from one part of the body to another.

You fix your hurt knee, your wrist goes wonky.

You fix your knee and your wrist and then your foot starts hurting.

And so on.

Emotions Are Vibrational Patterns

You can think of emotions like vibrational patterns.

You can download a FREE chart on my website to understand the relative heaviness or lightness of specific emotions. Click on this link to learn more.

The lowest vibration emotions, from least to most damaging, include:
Affirmation
Scorn
Hate
Craving
Anxiety
Regret
Despair
Blame
Humiliation

All True Healing Must Include Emotional Healing

As you resolve these emotions in yourself, you stop carrying the vibration.

As you stop feeling these emotions, you stop lighting up the parts of your brain related to the acupuncture meridians.

As you clear this energy from all parts of your body, you start feeling lighter and less bothered by the pain.

This is why integrated holistic healing is a must in this day and age.

This is why, as a medical intuitive healer, I work on all five bodies – your spiritual, intellectual, emotional, energetic and physical self.

A Personal Story

In in the fall of 2015, I was practicing my yoga when I noticed that my left wrist was hurting. I had just come out of a full wheel. Even though I had learned the correct form so as not to strain my wrist, I felt a sharp shooting pain.

As busy as I was, I didn’t pay much attention until a few months later when I was practicing qi gong.

I lifted my left wrist and noticed a large protruding bump – a ganglion cyst.

It turns out that my mother also has a ganglion cyst, also known as a Bible bump because an old timey remedy is to hit it with a large heavy Bible to get rid of the bump. Turns out her ganglion cyst is in the exact same place as mine only hers isn’t hurting any longer.

“I’m 57 years old and I can still blame something on my mommy,” I joked with my yoga class.

Indeed, many of the vibrational patterns that cause our pain and suffering did not in fact start with us. These are called:
Genomes, or genetic thought patterns.
Miasms, or beliefs, habits and thought patterns that we picked up from the culture we grew up in.

I identified the emotion behind my wrist pain and began taking a flower essence to resolve the feelings.

Even if the pattern had in fact started with my mother, it was now in my own cells and if I wanted to resolve the pain I had to deal with it.

As I did so, I also received chiropractic adjustments as my carpal bones had become misaligned.

Eventually the pain lessened.

Then one day I noticed I had run out of the flower essence I had been taking to resolve the emotions behind my wrist pain.

Thinking I may be over it by now, I didn’t bother to start on my second bottle.

A few days after I ran out, I noticed my wrist pain had returned!

I immediately began taking the second bottle and continued to process the emotions that had made me hurt so badly.

To Get Rid of Pain, You Must Take An Integrated Approach

You can take an aspirin, call your chiropractor, visit your medical doctor for an Xray or an MRI. I strongly support all these approaches and can also recommend many natural healing remedies for pain.

But when you really want to get rid of pain and suffering, you will want to take an integrated approach.

Ask yourself:
Where did my pain start?
What are the emotions I am feeling?
How are my spiritual, intellectual, emotional, energetic and physical bodies involved in this pain?

By taking an integrated approach, you can supercharge your healing, resolve your emotions, shift the vibration and empty out your pain body.

What is healing?

Healing happens when you honor who you really are as a human being and take advantage of this deeper knowledge to address all aspects of yourself.

http://catherinecarrigan.com/what-is-the-pain-body/

Common Testing Tools For Neuropathy

Today's post from painhq.org (see link below) is another article highlighting the commonest diagnosis/testing tools with regard to neuropathy. This is especially useful for people who have been told they probably have neuropathy but must undergo certain tests to establish that. Hopefully, your doctor will listen carefully to your story and conclude that there's enough evidence to diagnose nerve damage but many doctors (and insurance companies) require more than that - scientific proof. Unfortunately, even these tests can't prove neuropathy 100% but they are an accepted part of the process you go through. By the way, you're entitled to ask your doctor why you're having certain tests and not others. That may be perfectly reasonable but you deserve an explanation as to why.

How is neuropathic pain diagnosed?
Last updated August 5, 2014
 
Diagnosing neuropathy is often difficult because the symptoms are highly variable. A thorough neurological examination is usually required and involves taking an extensive patient history (including the patient’s symptoms, work environment, social habits, exposure to any toxins, history of alcoholism, risk of HIV or other infectious disease, and family history of neurological disease), performing tests that may identify the cause of the neuropathic disorder, and conducting tests to determine the extent and type of nerve damage.

A general physical examination and related tests may reveal the presence of a systemic disease causing nerve damage. Blood tests can detect diabetes, vitamin deficiencies, liver or kidney dysfunction, other metabolic disorders, and signs of abnormal immune system activity. An examination of cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord can reveal abnormal antibodies associated with neuropathy. More specialized tests may reveal other blood or cardiovascular diseases, connective tissue disorders, or malignancies. Tests of muscle strength, as well as evidence of cramps or fasciculations, indicate motor fiber involvement. Evaluation of a patient’s ability to register vibration, light touch, body position, temperature, and pain reveals sensory nerve damage and may indicate whether small or large sensory nerve fibers are affected.

Based on the results of the neurological exam, physical exam, patient history, and any previous screening or testing, additional testing may be ordered to help determine the nature and extent of the neuropathy.

Computed tomography, or CT scan, is a noninvasive, painless process used to produce rapid, clear two-dimensional images of organs, bones, and tissues. X-rays are passed through the body at various angles and are detected by a computerized scanner. The data is processed and displayed as cross-sectional images, or "slices," of the internal structure of the body or organ. Neurological CT scans can detect bone and vascular irregularities, certain brain tumors and cysts, herniated disks, encephalitis, spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal), and other disorders.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can examine muscle quality and size, detect any fatty replacement of muscle tissue, and determine whether a nerve fiber has sustained compression damage. The MRI equipment creates a strong magnetic field around the body. Radio waves are then passed through the body to trigger a resonance signal that can be detected at different angles within the body. A computer processes this resonance into either a three-dimensional picture or a two-dimensional "slice" of the scanned area.

Electromyography (EMG) involves inserting a fine needle into a muscle to compare the amount of electrical activity present when muscles are at rest and when they contract. EMG tests can help differentiate between muscle and nerve disorders.

Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) tests can precisely measure the degree of damage in larger nerve fibers, revealing whether symptoms are being caused by degeneration of the myelin sheath or the axon. During this test, a probe electrically stimulates a nerve fiber, which responds by generating its own electrical impulse. An electrode placed further along the nerve’s pathway measures the speed of impulse transmission along the axon. Slow transmission rates and impulse blockage tend to indicate damage to the myelin sheath, while a reduction in the strength of impulses is a sign of axonal degeneration.

Nerve biopsy involves removing and examining a sample of nerve tissue, most often from the lower leg. Although this test can provide valuable information about the degree of nerve damage, it is an invasive procedure that is difficult to perform and may itself cause neuropathic side effects. Many experts do not believe that a biopsy is always needed for diagnosis.

Skin biopsy is a test in which doctors remove a thin skin sample and examine nerve fiber endings. This test offers some unique advantages over NCV tests and nerve biopsy. Unlike NCV, it can reveal damage present in smaller fibers; in contrast to conventional nerve biopsy, skin biopsy is less invasive, has fewer side effects, and is easier to perform.

https://www.painhq.org/learning/knowledge-base/category/clinical-assessment/neuropathic-pain-overview/how-is-neuropathic-pain-diagnosed

An explanation of various treatments for neuropathy Warning! It aint gonna go viral on YouTube!

We're going to drop in on the 2006, Rare Neuroimmunologic Disorders Symposium to listen to and watch a talk given by Joanne Lynn MD. For the first two and a half minutes you may well wonder why, because the video takes some time to get to the point, or at least the points that are relevant to us. Apart from that, the good lady is not exactly the most inspiring speaker to listen to but stay with it because there is so much useful information and explanation which is specific to our problems. Apart from that, the slides that are shown, explain the difficult vocabulary that would normally go in one ear and out of the other.

You must remember that this is a medical professional talking to other medical professionals and therefore, there aren't very many fireworks to keep your attention but it's worth the effort. I've watched this three times and have learned something new and useful each time.

You can read the transcript of the video on: http://www.myelitis.org/newsletters/v7n2/newsletter7-2-02.htm
It helps!

Neuropathy Book Recommendation

Today's post from ireport.cnn.com (see link below) is a review of a new book about living with neuropathy. In this case, the author is speaking from personal experience and can therefore bring a fresh and more relevant approach to the subject. Many books about neuropathy can tend to err on the side of the scientific and become somewhat 'dry' reading matter but here Dean S Lewis tells a tale that most readers will be able to identify with. In his case, the cause was antibiotics but the end-result was the neuropathy most people know all too well. Possibly his best piece of advice is something this blog wholeheartedly endorses and that is to gather as much information as you possibly can about the disease and relate it to your own situation. It's a cliche but knowledge really is power!




Living With Peripheral Neuropathy: 9 Simple Steps Guide To Reduce The Pain
By noblex | Posted March 19, 2015

http://www.listfree.org/146932-dean-s-lewis.html

Dean S. Lewis took some antibiotics, not knowing his life would change forever. This was in 1998. His body reacted negatively to the antibiotics. Every organ in his body except the brain failed. Not even his heart was working. For two months, he lay in the intensive care unit dying. He spent one of the two months in a medically induced coma. Doctors said only a miracle would restore his fortunes. A miracle happened and he has lived to tell the story. However, Dean was left with chronic medical conditions, one being peripheral neuropathy.

Dean has written a book entitled “Peripheral Neuropathy: Nine Simple Steps to Reduce Your Pain” which teaches others with neuropathy how to manage it. He also gives daily tips to people living with neuropathy, in their journey to overcome it.

Dean is a fighter. While his parents worried about his life and whether or not he would leave the ICU alive, he believed he would somehow survive. He is now doing great. He has perfected ‘the art’ of controlling his neuropathy. Dean has a regimen he follows to keep his symptoms at bay. Some of the symptoms he deals with today include tingling in his legs. The tingling has, however, reduced significantly after strictly following his regimen.

He is now a fulltime clinical analyst. He interacts with physicians, nurses and others in the medical field. His work involves implementing the medical practitioners’ requests for information from their database. He is also a life coach. Anyone with a chronic condition can contact Dean for help. He inspires many with his personal story of struggle, endurance and overcoming. Dean pursues his goals. He was able to attend World Cup 2014 in Brazil. He prepared his mind and body for the grueling schedule months before the trip to be in the most optimal condition.

Dean practices gratitude every morning. He knows every day is a gift and is very grateful for one more day of life. He says he experiences numbness in his feet when he wakes up in the morning. So, he starts by getting his body to literally feel his feet. He exerts tension on his feet and muscles to allow his body to wake up in phases.

Once this is done, he steps on the floor and does his cardio, stretches and pushups. This way, his muscles stay strong. This is very helpful when dealing with peripheral neuropathy. Dean says exercise strengthens the muscles and give the nerves the stimulation they need to keep the body fit.

Over the years, Dean has been told over and over again he should share the story of his survival and overcoming peripheral neuropathy. He also used to attend neuropathy support groups and he would listen to people’s frustrations and see their pain. He loved speaking in these gatherings and would inspire those suffering to hope for a life beyond the frustrations of neuropathy. All these happenings pushed him to write the book “Peripheral Neuropathy Nine Simple Steps To Reduce The Pain” which is available on Amazon.
Dean has had moments he wanted to give up. He says it was especially challenging when he experienced so much pain. He says a lot of times when he would skip his regimen or not get enough sleep or push himself a little too far, he would experience so much pain that he would feel like giving up. Dean, however, says he would remember how far he has come and push himself back to his regimen as a way out of his pain.

Dean advices anyone suffering from a chronic illness to gather as much information about the condition as they possibly can. He says this is where it all begins. Once you know the condition you are suffering from, Dean says you can start to understand how you can overcome it. According to Dean, it is also okay to ask for help. “Don’t be afraid to speak to a friend… Don’t feel that there’s something wrong with you. Listen: everyone has something to deal with,” Dean says.

Dean’s mindset was a big contributor to getting his life back on track after the neuropathy experience. Long before he could walk and drive again, he would use his mind to strengthen and reform his neural pathways by imagining himself driving. Though he could not move, Dean believes this helped him recover faster.
Today, he takes no pain killers. He has been liberated. He wants to show others how they can overcome peripheral neuropathy or other chronic conditions.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1226290

Can Avoiding Dairy Help With Neuropathy Vid

The third video clip from Dr John Hayes Jr this week, looks at why it may be sensible to cut down on or eliminate dairy products in your diet. You may not make a direct connection between nerve pain and diet but if you have neuropathy,  it is worth watching this clip and then thinking about your dietary choices (especially if you're in a diabetes risk group).


Episode 7 – Why Avoid Dairy? Part 1 of 2
Thursday, April 25th, 2013 Posted by John Hayes Jr

Dr. Hayes explains why consuming dairy is not ideal for anyone, especially those suffering from peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain.

http://beatingneuropathy.tv/2013/04/episode-7/

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Can Massage Help With Neuropathy Symptoms

Today's post from  cancertherapyadvisor.com (see link below) is directed towards neuropathy patients who have nerve damage thanks to chemotherapy treatment but there is no reason at all to suggest that this form of treatment and the study thereof, can't also apply to all neuropathy patients suffering with the same symptoms. This is the key to researching neuropathy on the internet - you should never ignore articles ostensibly directed towards a particular disease when it comes to nerve damage. Once you have neuropathy, all treatment information is useful. That said, the conclusions of this study are pretty thin and although massage seems a very attractive treatment to most neuropathy sufferers, there's very little evidence to suggest that it really can reduce symptoms to any great extent. However, massage certainly may help you feel better and along with acupuncture, may well be worth a try if your medications aren't producing the goods (as most of them don't).

Massage Therapy May Reduce Chemo-induced Peripheral Neuropathy

Jason Hoffman, PharmD, RPh 

September 19, 2016

 

Massage therapy may reduce peripheral neuropathy symptoms among patients receiving neurotoxic chemotherapy, according to a study presented at the 2016 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium.¹

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is known to negatively affect quality of life and can necessitate dose reductions of anticancer drugs. There is, however, no consensus of an effective strategy to improve CIPN. For the present study, researchers evaluated massage therapy as primary prevention and as a treatment option for CIPN.

For this prospective study, investigators enrolled 62 patients receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy. All participants underwent 2 massage therapy sessions; CIPN was measured using a validated survey instrument at baseline, after the first session, and after the second session.

Nearly all patients reported at least 2 CIPN-related symptoms. The most common symptoms were numbness and tingling of feet, numbness and tingling of feet, feeling weak all over, trouble walking, and joint pain or muscle cramps.

After the first massage therapy session, between 52% and 100% of patients reported improvement in CIPN-related symptom categories. Improvement in CIPN-related symptoms, with the exception of vestibulocochlear symptoms, continued from the first session to the second session of massage therapy.

Among the 25 patients initially prescribed analgesics, 56% had no progression of CIPN-related symptoms following the first session of massage therapy. After the second session, 38% of the 13 presenting patients reported no progression of symptoms, and 31% reported complete symptom resolution. Nearly one-third had symptom progression.

The findings suggest that clinicians should consider incorporating massage therapy as an approach to improving CIPN.
                          
Reference

1. Menendez AG, Cobb R, Carvajal AR, et al. Effectiveness of massage therapy (MT) as a treatment strategy and preventive modality for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) symptoms. Poster presented at: 2016 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium; September 9-10, 2016; San Francisco, CA.
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