Neuropathy of the Foot

If the terminology of nerve related words gets confusing, please refer to our Overview of Nerve Related Terms further down the page.

Neuropathy Overview

A not necessarily common yet not infrequent cause of chronic ongoing bouts of soft tissue strain can be traced to a pinched or damaged nerve. A pinched nerve can cause a variety of symptoms, including muscle spasms, tingling and numbness in the arms or legs. To understand more about how this happens, it is necessary to understand the basics of your nervous system.

What Is A Nerve?

Nerves are pathways that carry messages in the form of electrical impulses between the brain and ALL parts of the body in both directions. It is these electrical impulses that allow you to feel sensations, move your muscles, control your heartbeat, sweat, breathe, digest food and many other functions as well.

Peripheral Neuropathy

Peripheral neuropathy is any disorder that affects nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. Peripheral neuropathy can cause pain and numbness in the arms, legs, hands, feet or other areas of your body. These symptoms are often described as “burning” or “tingling” because they may feel like there is an electric shock going through your body. In most cases, this condition causes mild to severe pain that can interfere with daily activities such as walking and working out at the gym.

Nerves are like wires that carry sensations and information to the brain and spinal cord. Peripheral nerves are found in every part of your body, but peripheral neuropathy most often affects the arms, legs and hands.

Peripheral neuropathy can cause numbness or tingling that spreads along a nerve, pain (usually burning), muscle weakness and loss of reflexes. It can also cause problems with sensations such as touch, temperature and vibration. The most common symptom is pain (particularly at night) in one or more areas below the waist on both sides of your body. The pain usually starts slowly over time before progressing rapidly if left untreated.

Symptoms of Peripheral Neuropathy

Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy can be mild or severe, depending on the type of condition causing it. The most common symptoms include:

  • numbness and tingling in the feet and hands
  • pain in your feet and/or legs when walking
  • burning pain that feels like pins and needles

Diagnosis & Treatment for Peripheral Neuropathy

The symptoms of peripheral neuropathy can often be treated with the help of a doctor or physical therapist. If the nerve is symptomatic due to compression, there are often ways to resolve it. If the nerve is damaged however, there will likely be a less chance of a successful outcome. Many different medications are available to help ease the pain and discomfort, though some medications may have side effects. Physical therapy may also help ease your symptoms by helping you stay active and increasing blood flow to the extremities.

An Overview of Nerve Related Terms:

  1. The Nervous System

    The system of nerves in the body, the brain, and the spinal cord make up the foundation of the nervous system. There are 2 main types of nerves:

    • Sensory Nerves - these nerves carry impulses to the brain helping you feel, taste, smell, see, etc.
    • Motor Nerves - these nerves carry impulses to muscles and glands, helping you move & function (ie digest, breathe, heartbeat, etc)
  2. Neurons

    Nerve cells are also known as "Neurons" and are present all over your body - especially in your brain and spinal cord.

    Adopting Healthy Habits. (2023) Nerves: Types, Function & Anatomy. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/22584-nerves
  3. Peripheral Nerves

    Peripheral nerves make up the peripheral nervous system which is the network of nerves that carry electrical impulses from all over your body to your spinal cord.

  4. Neuropathy

    Neuropathy means nerve damage. Peripheral Neuropathy means nerve damage to peripheral nerves - nerves that lie outside the brain and spinal cord.

  5. Central Nervous System

    This is essentially your brain and spinal cord. They receive and interpret electrical impulses from the peripheral nervous system

    Your brain integrates these messages (inputs) to inform everything you do, including how you move, feel, behave and think. Some reactions are reflexive, happening below the level of consciousness, like moving your hand away from a hot stove.

    Adopting Healthy Habits. (2023) Nerves: Types, Function & Anatomy. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/22584-nerves
  6. Radiculopathy

    Your spine is made of many bones called vertebrae, and your spinal cord runs through a canal in the center of these bones. Nerve roots split from the cord and travel between the vertebrae into various areas of your body. When these nerve roots become pinched or damaged, the resulting symptoms are called radiculopathy.

    The Pinching Of. (2023) Radiculopathy | Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/radiculopathy

    Location specific terms:

    • Cervical Radiculopathy - Neck Area
    • Thoracic Radiculopathy - Upper Back (least common occurring)
    • Lumbar Radiculopathy - Lower Back [also termed "Sciatica"]

Conservative Treatment Tools Our Clients Have Used to Help Limit Foot Damage & Boost The Body's Soft Tissue Repair Process at Home:

If you are truly looking for the home treatment options to reduce inflammation, increase range of motion, and treat the source of pain quickly, a conservative treatment protocol including the following are what we consider to be the most effective:

  • A Cold Compress or Ice Pack to reduce inflammation wherever there is pain and/or swelling (as soon as possible).
  • A Plantar TShellz Wrap® [or a Sesamoid TShellz Wrap® if the location is at the metacarpals or toes] to increase blood-flow to the targeted treatment area (a Localized Enhanced Circulatory Response® Treatment).
  • MendMeShop Arnica Pain Cream for powerful, temporary relief of pain due to sore muscles and joints.
  • Perhaps a High Quality Knee Pillow for comfort while sleeping, sitting and raising the foot.
  • If you need compression, a Plantar Compression Band for compression and support in the foot - adjustable from heel to toe.
  • An Exercise & Stretching Plan to prevent muscle atrophy, shortened tendons/ligaments/fascia. A proper plan will increase soft tissue elasticity and strength in the affected area.

Conservative treatment tools just like these have been used successfully by thousands of foot injury sufferers - just like you.

The TShellz Wrap®: Intended to Enhance Blood Flow in the Treatment Area

We believe the use of TShellz Wraps® for boosting blood flow to soft tissue in the area of application is one of the most under-utilized home treatment options available on the market today. We have client after client that have tried many options out there and have been amazed at how effective and fast the TShellz Wrap® treatment has helped in their recovery.


Increased Blood Flow Stimulates the Bodys' Ability to Heal

With regular use of the Plantar, Sesamoid and/or Achilles TShellz® Circulatory Boost Wrap:

  • Your pain will be reduced*.
  • Due to increased blood flow, soft tissue in the treatment area on the foot will be expected to recover at an accelerated rate with reduced potential for re-injury*.
  • Tissue in the treated area should experience a larger range of motion and increased extensibility of collagen tissue* due to the heat effect on soft tissue. This should translate into a reduced rate of re-injury occurrence as soft tissue is known to lengthen and become more flexible when exposed to warm temperature. (*Chapter 9 of "Therapeutic Heat and Cold", 4th edition. - Ed. Justus F. Lehmann, M.D., Williams, and Wilkin)

*Know that every personal soft tissue injury is unique and the TShellz Wrap may not work for everyone. This is why we offer a 60-day money back return on all our TShellz Wrap devices.

When to use a TShellz Wrap®:

  • After swelling and inflammation are reduced.
  • BEFORE getting out of bed in the morning. BEFORE going to bed at night.
  • BEFORE exercise, workouts or activity of any kind to warm up the foot and increase length & elasticity of muscles, ligaments & tendons at the base of the foot. Increased elasticity and length of soft tissue is intended to help reduce risk of of re-injury.
  • AFTER surgery (once the skin wound has healed over and your physician approves) to boost blood circulation, helping surgically repaired tissues rebuild for long-term health and minimize scar tissue growth at the surgery location.
  • Anytime BEFORE you feel you might undertake activity that will put significant strain on your foot.
  • Any other situation where you need to increase blood flow to soft tissue in the foot to relax the area, relieve pain / spasms, prevent re-injury and enhance flexibility of tissue in the treatment area.
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Suffering from Achilles Tendonitis? This wrap is designed to treat lower calf and achilles location specifically.

For consistently active people with chronic achilles injury history, (ie. skiers, runners) we recommend an Achilles TShellz Wrap treatment prior to activity for re-injury risk reduction.

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This wrap is designed to:

  • increase extensibility & flexibility of metatarsals/sesamoid/toe areas during treatment & for a short while after
  • increase blood flow in the application area
  • be used on the TOP or BOTTOM of the foot

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Augment your recovery while reducing risk of re-injury. A Plantar TShellz application is intended to:

  • increase extensibility & flexibility of bottom foot fascia during treatment & for a short while after
  • increase blood flow in the application area

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New Technology For The Best Therapy Available!

TShellz Wraps® are what we believe to be the most highly effective home medical devices out there - helping boost blood circulation, increase elasticity of soft tissue, reduce inflammation and minimize pain. It is a product we have developed specifically for this purpose. You can be certain it will do this, as we give full refunds if this is not the case.

The Energy Pad stimulates all the tissue beneath it evenly. The parts of your body that are healthy will rapidly respond with increased blood flow and there will be little sensation in that area. As your body continues to recover you'll also notice a decrease in pain and the range of motion in your foot should slowly start to improve. So not only does pain and inflammation go away, but with every treatment you can feel the difference - you can tell your injury is getting better.

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Plantar TShellz Wrap for Injury Treatment

Like all our products, TShellz Wraps® are high quality wraps you will find nowhere else. We have them for every part of the body. And, of course, we guarantee our wraps with the MendMeShop 60 day, money back guarantee. If you are not finding any improvement after using our TShellz product over a 60 day period, contact us for a full refund. We also provide a full year warranty on our TShellz Wrap® devices.

So, if you're really looking for an effective home therapy to treat torn or strained connective tissue; if you're looking to reduce inflammation, treat scar tissue, boost blood circulation and strengthen soft tissue, the TShellz Wrap® is what we recommend. We feel it is an exceptional home based approach to maximizing your soft tissue injury recovery process.

AidMyPlantar is committed to bringing you quality products for helping you relieve pain and boost blood flow to maximize your home recovery. These products are quickly revolutionizing the way the therapeutic industry thinks about soft tissue treatments and come highly recommended by our customers. If you have injured soft tissue that you want to deal with quickly, harness the power of your own body to heal itself and boost blood flow to the area, accelerating the body's own healing bio-mechanism.

Post Surgery Recovery

For Post-Surgery Recovery, cold is recommended by doctors to treat pain and swelling in a natural, non-addictive way.

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After the incision site has healed, use our TShellz Wrap® home treatments to stimulate blood flow in the area. Using the TShellz Wrap® as soon as pain & swelling has reduced following your surgery will help minimize scar tissue growth that forms in soft tissue at the surgery site as you heal. Treating scar tissue is often one of the most important steps following surgery, especially the more invasive surgeries as they typically result in high growth levels of scar tissue. This is also why you should never skip phyical therapy appointments - their primary goal is to get you limber - much of the work in physical therapy is to break up scar tissue and get you mobile again; physical therapy is a crucial component in the recovery process.

Leaving post-surgery scar tissue untreated can lead to stiffness, chronic pain, osteoarthritis or other chronic conditions. You're more likely to end up with another injury if you choose not to deal with the scar tissue that develops in your soft tissue - this is why pretty much all post surgery recoveries involve physical therapy. The TShellz® Circulatory Boost Wrap encourages more oxygen and nutrients to flow to the area to help your body in its recovery process. An increase in blood flow should also help improve the strength of soft tissue in the area.

Our Formula is Proven to Work!

We are very confident our T•Shellz home therapy products will assist you in recovering from your injury by reducing your swelling and inflammation induced pain, maximizing blood flow where it's needed most and increasing the flexibility, range of motion in the area.

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Here at AidMyPlantar we pride ourselves in helping you with your healing and recovery process. Everyone at AidMyPlantar has tested and used the products. Dedication to our customers and our products goes hand-in-hand with our guarantees to you as a customer:

  • Guarantee #1 - Use your products diligently for up to 60 days and you will experience a significant reduction in pain. If not, I encourage you to send back the items for a 100% refund.
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