Peripheral Neuropathy Pain Relief (Pro Football Injury)

hello I'm Dr. Ekberg and tonight I have Allen with me Allen was a professional

football player and he hurt some discs in his back and then he started so a few

years later he lost some strength and sensation in his leg and you want to

tell us a little more about that I had some herniated discs and L three four

and five s1 so I'm not sure which one effectively

the leg but it did go numb from my big toe all lipped about my knee and it's

been that way since about 1997 so about 18 years and I felt my muscles

deteriorate where I have leg cramping and my gluteus maximus a little atrophy

and what did they you never had surgery or anything right no no and what did the

the doctors have to offer they pretty much said that there was nothing they

can do once a nerve dies it dies okay and it can only get worse and

actually at one point I met someone who had what they call dead foot syndrome

and he was dragging it like a mummy and he said this is your future so I was

a little concerned about that he had developed quite a limp yes yeah and then

we've been working on you for a few weeks now and what's happened it almost

seems to happen overnight one night I said to my wife that my foot is feeling

I feeling better and I actually have some feeling and some strength coming

back to it and it's slowly been getting better and better where I think at this

point I'm I probably have about 90 percent sensation back wonderful

because you said before you you couldn't feel the foot so on you drive while

driving the foot would slip off the pedals as you just didn't know where it

was exactly and and now that you can feel that you have that sensation I feel

that also at night when I'm laying in bed with the sheets are covering it was

an annoying feeling because it accentuated the deadness the numbness

and now I actually feel the sheet yeah so that's it it's a good feeling very

good we wanted to share that that story cuz I had no expectation after after 18

years that the feeling would come back that quickly errantly there was no

actual nerve damage because then we wouldn't be able to bring it on it was

just it was there all along there was just something that wasn't connecting

and we were able to make a difference so I'm excited for you doctor

thank you thank you