Nerve Surgery Can Give Back Life And Limb - Health News Story - WRC | Washington

http://www.nbc4.com/health/14697271/...l?dl=mainclick

Interesting article on PN on our local NBC4 news station.

Kat

Are they referring to just tarsel tunnel surgery?

Billye

It's wonderful to see the improvement in the 82 year old's lifestyle as a result of this surgery. I wonder if it's more widely available or has been studied. Anyone know?

It's got to be more then Tarsal Tunnel Surgary why didn't tthey say more,
what am I missing...Thanks again Billye for the pillow tip..Yes if this
can be done,it would be a miracle,I still believe...Sue

For the link...I caught the tail end of the newscast after hearing all the promos and it was NOT available right after the show... I believe IF you use the 'search' feature on the top blue bar and look for 'Dellon Tarsal Tunnel' in any combinations, you will find past posts about the virtues or not of the process. One KEY aspect is they 'carefully screen' patients who might most be successful for such a 'procedure'. I've checked it out myself [I am desparate at times?] and have found that most insurances [a KEY aspect in my budget, don't know about yours] consider this all EXPERIMENTAL and thus not covered. Don't know about you, but it is a LOT of money out of pocket with a vague sucess rate.
I am suspecting that a very, very small portion of the neuropathy community is eligible and an even smaller portion can afford to have it done. I truly hate to rain on your parade in this respect.
I have never, ever seen anyone tout their successes on this board or any others. Honestly I wish I could hear a first-hand, no several first-hand experiences.
Kat, please keep posting - maybe someone here can help you with docs, diagnosis or plain old living with this 'stuff'!!! 's - j

Hi everyone:

I wish they had given more specifics also, but the gentleman had
obviously been suffering. It's always nice to see a good result,
whether the patient is 8 or 82. Proves there is always hope.
Every person that is helped may bring help closer to others.

Hugs to all & wishes for pain-free days,
Kat

Sounds to me like a surgery to relieve pressure on a specific nerve, nothing that would relieve small fiber neuropathy. I could go on and on about peripheral neuropathy not being a disease but a symptom. There are so many hereditary and acquired reasons for the many different types of peripheral neuropathy. Articles like this are written by some person who touts themselves as a medical correspondent or medical writer and has no real concept of what they are writing about....kinda like me writing about how to fix the state of the economic crisis in America.

C thank you,and i can't agree with you more...Oh and I wish you could
the other as well...Hugs to all Sue

One could go crazy watching CNN and MSNBC...but you know, this has been coming for a long time.....instead it seems many of our citizens prefer to bury their heads in more pressing social issues such as Dancing with the Stars or the latest starlet's drama.

It will take a great deal to turn this country around, and if people work at anything they should consider that we need universal health care and solvent social security, both which mean taxing the people who can afford to pay it the most, all those new 'millionaires' out there, and all those corporations who are making a killing at our expense.

Trickle down theories are just that....a trickle. A trickle isn't enough to keep people who need help alive. Even a 30 year work record won't keep you employed or preserve your benefits anymore. Corporations are ruthless, and those employed by them are cogs in a wheel, and have little choice but to hold the corporate line....or they are out too.

I am not sure how many of those people sleep at night, but surely their heat is turned up higher than mine, and likely their home is a lot bigger....(the only saving grace is maybe their neighbor will get foreclosed on and some 'undesireable' will move next door. Of course, they will cry, that is 'so unfair!")

Sorry didn't mean to hijack the thread....back to the surgery subject. It would do me very little good unless they could decompress every little tiny small fiber in every inch of my body.