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| Itching that can't be relieved, pins and needles or crawling sensations,
hypersensitivity to hot and cold, unexplained tingling
or numbness in fingers and toes, weakness, pain
- all are symptoms experienced by people who suffer
peripheral nerve disease.
Dr. Jose Ochoa, medical director of the neuromuscular unit at Portland's Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center where a highly trained team specializes in treating and researching nerve dysfunctions, sympathizes. Peripheral nerve problems are common, Ochoa said. Causes include physical injury such as trauma suffered in accidents; jobs in which nerves are repeatedly pinched; generalized illness (such as diabetes, kidney disease, vitamin deficiency, alcoholism, cancers in which nerve fibers decay. Click For More |
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