What are the treatments generally available to treat PN? What are the options?
In our experience, the only option offered by most physicians is medication to help ease pain. As a matter of fact, according to one recent report, over 98% of patients have been told by their doctors that nothing could be done to help them, except the use of pain medication. You may also come across several “novel” or “alternative” treatments involving different types of gadgets that are unproven, and are probably a waste of your time and money. None that we have seen are backed by what we consider to be responsible medical doctors. However there is a procedure available called “nerve decompression” which we find is highly effective in treating the pain, loss of sensation and other symptoms associated with PN in most patients. It is a straight forward procedure, similar in many ways to the well known “Carpel Tunnel Procedure” that takes about ninety minutes, and the patient goes home the same day. It is done in a hospital or on an outpatient basis.
