Peripheral Neuropathy Program

There are many types of peripheral neuropathy affecting more than 20 million Americans. More often than not, older adults suffer from neuropathy, but it can occur at any age. A survey of Medicare recipients found that peripheral neuropathy is the primary or secondary diagnosis in 8-9% of respondents, costing Medicare more than $3.5 billion a year. This often misdiagnosed and poorly understood disease is extremely common, may cause pain, weakness, numbness, temperature sensitivity, and/or blood pressure instability due to its affect on the motor, sensory, and autonomic nervous systems.

ProHealth & Fitness' Neuropathy Program focuses not only on symptom reduction through a variety of modalities such as NeuroFeedback, biofeedback, vibration electrical, thermal, and manual treatments, but on improving activity and function despite the symptoms through therapeutic exercise and activities. Treatments aimed to restore function are our goal in numerous categories of neuropathy including: Diabetic, Autonomic, Hereditary, Infectious disease, Cancer related, Immune mediated, Compressive, Drug induced and toxic neuropathies.  ProHealth's Clinical Director, Dr. James Nussbaum is involved with Weil Cornell's Neuropathy Center, and its affliate organization, the Neuropathy Association.