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5 Tips for Maintaining Good Balance & Preventing Falls

Balance, Exercise, Lifestyle, Living Well, News / By [email protected]

Falling is no laughing matter. Patients with Parkinson’s disease, peripheral neuropathy, lower extremity weakness, sensory loss, and substantial vision loss have a higher risk of falling. Good balance requires reliable sensory input from an individual’s vision, vestibular system (the balance system of the inner ear), and proprioceptors (sensors of position and movement in the feet …

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Using The Arts As An Integrative Treatment for Pain (Part 1) – Music Therapy

Alternative Medicine, Lifestyle, Living Well, News, Therapies / By Lindsay Colbert

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Blueberries, Apples, Grapes May Reduce Diabetes Risk

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, Lifestyle, Living Well, News, Nutrition, Research / By Foundation for PN

A new study suggests that eating more fruit, particularly blueberries, apples and grapes, may reduce the risk of diabetes. The researchers found that for every three weekly servings of blueberries, grapes, and apples, diabetes risk reduced by 26 percent, 12 percent and seven percent, respectively. READ MORE Source: Natural Medicines

Want to Live Longer? Try Tai Chi

Alternative Medicine, Exercise, Lifestyle, Living Well, Mind + Body, News, Research / By Foundation for PN

Dr. Xianglan Chang, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has just published results of a recent study indicating that Chinese men who practice Tai Chi were less likely to die over a five-year period than men who didn’t exercise at all. READ MORE Source: Denver Post

Ed Tomezsko: Looking For A Miracle

Exercise, Faces of PN, Idiopathic Neuropathy, Lifestyle, Living Well, News, Stories / By [email protected]

Ed and Jean Tomezsko share more than most married couples….they both have PN. Ed can trace his back to about 1985 while on a business trip to Colorado. Hiking in the mountains and hopping from rock to rock, Ed noticed an unusual balance issue – wobbling as he crossed a stream on the rocks. Feeling …

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Friends Make Pain Less Painful

Alternative Medicine, Living Well, Mental Health, News, Research / By Foundation for PN

Researchers studied two separate groups of lab mice to find that social interaction can lessen the pain from nerve damage. Mice who lived with a ‘social partner’ were able to withstand much higher levels of pain. These results imply that simply not being alone can be effective as an alternative treatment for PN. READ MORE …

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Acupuncture Soothes Chemo-Induced Neuropathic Pain

Alternative Medicine, Chemo-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy, Living Well, News, PN treatments, Research / By Foundation for PN

According to the results of a small pilot study published in Acupuncture in Medicine, acupuncture may help relieve the severe pain associated with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. READ MORE Source: Medscape

Dianne Jones: Chicago to Cleveland

Exercise, Faces of PN, Idiopathic Neuropathy, Lifestyle, Living Well, News, Stories / By Foundation for PN

Some might say Dianne Jones is one of the lucky ones. Diagnosed with idiopathic peripheral neuropathy 25 years ago, she experiences numbness and tingling but she has no pain. Her hands and feet are numb; moving around is difficult. She loses her balance, bumps into things, her gait is uneven. She is stiff and uncoordinated, …

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