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• Laser Phototherapy, a New Modality in treatment of Long-Term Incomplete Peripheral Nerve Injury: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study
• Double-blind Randomized Study Evaluating Regeneration of the Rat Transected Sciatic Nerve after Suturing and Postoperative Low-Power Laser Treatment
• Documentation of posttraumatic nerve compression in patients with normal electrodiagnostic studies.

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Tucson Neuropathy Institute

The most common form of peripheral neuropathy is diabetic peripheral neuropathy which afflicts millions of Americans. More than 60% of non-traumatic lower limb amputations are due to diabetic neuropathy. One in six diabetics will have ulcers of the lower extremity. One in six diabetics who have ulcerations will have amputations. Over 200,000 lower extremity amputations were performed in the United States and Europe last year. This is simply too much!

There is now hope for patients suffering from diabetic neuropathy. A new truly miraculous surgical technique is allowing diabetic patients to retain their limbs, live pain-free and have a better quality of life. For patients who had little chance for symptomatic improvement, we may now have the real opportunity to prevent ulcers and amputations.

Other causes of peripheral neuropathy are related to alcoholism, various chemotherapeutic agents, certain drugs, as well as, a large group known as idiopathic neuropathy (unknown cause). There are several scientific studies available that suggest an underlying theme with many of these varying types of peripheral neuropathy. Many of these peripheral neuropathies may be aggravated by a compression or squeezing of the nerve in tight tunnels that the nerves must pass through.

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Library for Tucson Neuropathy Institute:

• Double-blind Randomized Study Evaluating Regeneration of the Rat Transected Sciatic Nerve after Suturing and Postoperative Low-Power Laser Treatment   
• Laser Phototherapy, a New Modality in treatment of Long-Term Incomplete Peripheral Nerve Injury: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study   
• Documentation of posttraumatic nerve compression in patients with normal electrodiagnostic studies.   
• Surgical Treatment of Peripheral Neuropathy: Outcomes from 100 Consecutive Decompressions   
• Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy: Treatment by Decompression of Peripheral Nerves   
• Surgical Decompression in Lower-Extremity Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy   
• Relationship between peripheral nerve decompression and gain of pedal sensibility and balance in patients with peripheral neuropathy.   
• Detection of neuropathy due to Mycobacterium leprae using noninvasive neurosensory testing of susceptible peripheral nerves.   
• Glycemic control and nerve conduction abnormalities in non-insulin-dependent diabetic subjects.   
• Treatment of symptomatic diabetic neuropathy by surgical decompression of multiple peripheral nerves.   
• Atrophy of foot muscles: a measure of diabetic neuropathy.   
• Postural stability in diabetic polyneuropathy.   
• Effect of glycemic control on electrophysiologic changes of diabetic neuropathy in type 2 diabetic patients.   
• Subclinical diabetic neuropathy: similarities between electrophysiological results of patients with type 1 (insulin-dependent) and type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus.   
• Nerve glucose, fructose, sorbitol, myo-inositol, and fiber degeneration and regeneration in diabetic neuropathy.   
• Treatment of diabetic neuropathy by decompression of the posterior tibial nerve.   
• Effect of tarsal tunnel decompression in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat.   
• Decompression of peripheral nerves for diabetic neuropathy in the lower extremity.   
• Effect of various nerve decompression procedures on the functions of distal limbs in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats: further optimism in diabetic neuropathy.   
• Results of decompression of peripheral nerves in diabetics: a prospective, blinded study.   

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Web Resources for Tucson Neuropathy Institute:

• Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons

  Description: AENS is a specialty medical society open to all medical professionals which promotes the collaborative study & development of research and techniques regarding the treatment of extremity peripheral nerve disease.

• The Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery

  Description: The Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery® owe their name to A. Lee Dellon, M.D., PhD., an accomplished Plastic Surgeon as well as a Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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