Mike Foxworth

Help operate the only support group focused on Peripheral Neuropathy patients in the DC area, including planning, developing & presenting material, assisting with technical aspects (including its web site) and, currently, helping with a working group on public awareness for the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy.

PN Support Groups Offer Particular Ostacles

Unlike Alsheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, which seems to have a lot more information available to educate people, PN has fewer sources from which to draw. Following a diagnosis, medical professionals sometimes offer patients little more than pain medication before sending them on their way. There is so much more to be learned and practiced, especially

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Loss of Full Life: Pain (A work in progress)

Summary: PN is uncomfortable. Virtually every PN patient has discomfort or pain.  This reflects the standard pattern: discomfort, possibly substantial, while PN silently destroys our ability to stand.   A substantial minority of patients report major problems with pain. To many of them pain is the primary problem, not the degradation that destroys balance. Many have

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Overcoming PN’s Unique Support Group Barrier

Overcoming PN’s Unique Support Group Barrier By Mike Foxworth Peripheral Neuropathy (PN) is a massive problem for our country. It rivals Alzheimer’s disease in complexity and cost. Yet all attempts to confront it on the scale it merits have been met with meager responses. The last few years have revealed some exciting research developments. Those

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