--muscle building weight lifting can be problematic for someone with neuropathy, especially if the neuropathy is attempting to heal and nerve growth cones are fighting to go through/around tissue; increasing the size of tissue, or shifting the position of muscle-supporting tendons, might actually compress nerve tracts.

One should also consider the "double crush phenomenon"--nerves already insulted form one condition, such as diabetes or autoimmunities, tend to be more prone to compressive effects than those of "normals"--and when both of these things happen the symptoms tend to be more than "the sum of the parts".
(It's one reason why, for example, diabetics with neuropathy tend to have more symptoms with spinal radiculopathies than those without it.)