Stop neuropathy pain…in your own home

By Mimi Vanderhaven

Peripheral neuropathy is a common condition resulting from damage to smaller blood vessels and nerves, most often in the extremities. Its symptoms include weakness, numbness, burning, a painful sensation of “pins and needles,” being either hot or cold all the time and loss of feeling or difficulty with balance and walking.

It’s often associated with diabetes, pre-diabetes, chemotherapy, and past trauma.

“Many of our patients who suffer from neuropathy say they feel like they’re walking on tacks or broken glass,” says Dr. Frank Dachtler, the founder of Broadview Health Center. “Some lose sleep because they can’t stand the bed sheets touching them. They also say doctors have told them there is nothing they can do short of prescribing drugs like gabapentin or Lyrica, which require continual increases in dosage as the body adjusts. These drugs are designed to block nerve signals, which runs the risk of further damaging your system. Instead, we’re finding success with our patients every day—without drugs.”

Effective, Leading-Edge Therapy
Dr. Dachtler’s multi-pronged approach includes infrared light therapy and low frequency nerve stimulation ,each of which have been proven to reverse the damage of peripheral neuropathy and thus the pain and other symptoms associated with it.

“The light therapy produces infrared light at the ideal frequency to promote the release of nitric oxide from endothelial cells, increasing blood flow and stimulating angiogenesis—the formation of new blood vessels,” Dr. Dachtler explains. “The electric nerve stimulation therapy is a nerve ‘ReBuilder’ that opens nerve paths, re-educates the nerves, and remineralizers the synaptic junctions between nerve cells. The result is a 92 percent success rate in reduction of both pain and numbness.”

The good news is these therapies actually work. The only downside is the protocol involves frequent 30- to 60-minute treatments. That means a lot of expense and a lot of time in the doctor’s office.

But not anymore.

In-Home Treatments
“We understand how inconvenient these treatments can be, but they are life-changing,” Dr. Dachtler affirms. “So we’ve developed a way to make them much more convenient. You do them yourself at home.”

“We help make it affordable for everyone by allowing you to do the therapy yourself in your own home and with your own equipment instead of multiple office visits,” he explains. “You buy the equipment directly from the manufacturer and we train you how to do the treatments, then we monitor your progress either monthly or bi-monthly.”

In this way, Dr. Dachtler says, you get the tremendous benefits of treatment without the hassle. You can do them while you’re checking your email, reading the paper, having your morning coffee, or doing the daily Wordle and other puzzles. “It doesn’t have to put a damper on your schedule at all,” he says.

The treatment plan also includes a nutritional component to optimize your body for healing.

Who is a Candidate?
To get started, Dr. Dachtler will do a complete evaluation to determine that your symptoms are indeed related to neuropathy. “Neuropathy is sometimes misdiagnosed, so we want to make sure we are on the right track,” he says. “Rebuilding nerves and blood vessels takes time. Some people report improvement in just a few days, but true healing will take a couple of months, after which you can do less treatment or not at all ,we can determine through an in office appointment every couple months or communication through phone calls or texting.”

Candidates for this in-home therapy are those who want to improve their quality of life. “Patients include fathers who want to be able to walk their daughters down the aisle, tradespeople who want to extend their careers, people who want to travel, to go on cruises, and those who simply want to stay out of a nursing home. Regardless of what you have told, there is hope.”

Broadview Health Center is at 1100 W. Royalton Road, in Broadview Heights. To schedule a consultation, call 440-230-1113. Please visit BroadviewChiropractic.com to learn more.