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5 Tips for Maintaining Good Balance & Preventing Falls

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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Managing Diabetes with Exercise: 6 Tips for Nerve Pain

If you have diabetic nerve pain in your feet, legs, arms, or hands, consider this: research published in The Journal of Diabetes Complications showed significant benefits of exercise in controlling peripheral neuropathy. The study showed that for people who took a brisk, one-hour walk on a treadmill four times a week, exercise slowed how quickly their nerve …

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Weight-bearing versus Non-weight-bearing Exercise for People with Diabetes and Peripheral Neuropathy

Results of a randomized controlled clinical trial are being published to report on the effects of weight-bearing versus non-weight-bearing exercise for people with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Participants were recruited from a university-based physical therapy clinic. A relatively small study group had six-minute walk distance and daily step counts measured for 12 weeks, with the weight-bearing …

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Another Reason to Exercise: Pain Relief

Physicians in Taiwan have published a new study that finds that getting active may actually help alleviate some pain, including that related to nerve damage. Researchers, including Yu-Wen Chen, PhD, studied the effects of exercise as a treatment of nerve-related pain in laboratory animals. The article provides a link to the exercise page on the FPN …

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