--is not that his technique for lower extremity nerve release is not helpful to some; there are people with compressive nerve situations that have been helped by such surgery, and it would possibly help people with other neuropathic foot pain who are subject to the "double crush" phenomenon (neuropathic symptoms from some other cause exacerbated by constriction--this happens often to diabetics), but that the claims that are made about how many peole the technique will help, and the marketing apparatus around it, seem to be overreaching.

To those of us who know the many manifestations and causes of neural symptoms, it seems the claims are too broad, and don't admit that there are some people who cannot be helped by surgery in that area--it cannot help those with neural symptoms from lumbar problems, for example, or who have neuropathies that do not have compressive or ischemic etiologies (such as from celiac, vitamin deficiency, toxins . . .) but the way those ads and websites are set up, and the way people have reported being interviewed by the staff at these centers, it sounds as if this the place to go for anyone with lower extremity neuropathic symptoms. When that happens, suspcions rise that this is a way to make money from people who are less-informed, who are in severe discomfort, and who haven't had anywhere near as extensive a work-up for cause as they should have (unfortunately, the fact that so many docs have no clue when it comes to neuropathy plays right into this).