How does the nerve decompression procedure work?
It is known that in the majority of patients with PN (except sometimes in the case of PN due to injury for example) the peripheral nerve fibers that run between your spine and your hands, or your spine and your feet , become “swollen”. For example, in the case of PN caused by Diabetes, the nerves become swollen due to osmotic pressure from higher than normal (non-diabetic) blood sugar levels. As these swollen nerves pass through certain fixed anatomical bony narrowings or “tunnels” in the arms and legs (i.e. in the elbow, wrist, behind the knee, in the ankle or the foot) the Peripheral Nerves can become “Compressed” against the inner “walls” of the tunnels if the nerves become swollen. As the nerves are essentially “choked off”, the amount of oxygen and nutrients traveling to the nerve past the “choke point” can become limited; therefore resulting in the symptoms of pain and loss of sensation as the nerve fibers start to become compromised and eventually start to die. By opening up the
