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Numbness and Tingling Causes and What To Do About it.

pins and footTingling hands, feet, or both is an extremely common and bothersome symptom. Such tingling can sometimes be benign and temporary. For example, it could result from pressure on nerves when your arm is crooked under your head as you fall asleep. Or it could be from pressure on nerves when you cross your legs too long. In either case, the “pins and needles” effect — which is usually painless — is soon relieved by removing the pressure that caused it. The medical term for this is peripheral-neuropathy.

Causes of Tingling in the Hands and Feet

Diabetes is one of the most common causes of peripheral neuropathy, accounting for about 30% of cases.
In another 30% of peripheral neuropathy cases, the cause is unknown or “idiopathic.”

The remaining 40% of cases have a variety of causes such as:

  • Nerve entrapment syndromes such as Carpel Tunnel
  • Systemic diseases Like liver disease, Kidney disfuntion
  • Vitamin deficincy
  • Toxins. These include heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, mercury, and thallium, and some industrial and environmental chemicals.
  • Infections. Such as Lyme disease or shingles
  • Inherited disorders.
  • Injuries. Often related to trauma, nerves can be compressed, crushed, or damaged, resulting in nerve pain. Examples include nerve compression caused by a herniated disc or dislocated bone.

How to Treat Numbness and Tingling in the hands and feet.

Cold Laser Therapy can help treat the underlying causes of neuropathy and help with symptom management.

Cold Laser Therapy helps by actually stimulating microcirculation around the nerve fibers, which increases blood flow to the nerves and helps to heal and reduce neuropathic pain. Laser light energy penetrates the skin and stimulates increased oxygen on a cellular level. This increase in microcirculation around the nerve has been shown to help regenerate fibers and help heal peripheral nerves. Cold Laser Therapy is painless and has been proven to decrease neuropathy, decrease inflammation and aide in the healing of wounds and tendons.

Recent research has shown that cold laser therapy can help treat the underlying causes of neuropathy and help with symptom management.

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