Physiotherapy for people with painful peripheral neuropathies: a narrative review of its efficacy and safety.

ABSTRACT: Pharmacological treatment for peripheral neuropathic pain has only modest effects and is often limited by serious adverse responses. Alternative treatment approaches including physiotherapy management have thus gained interest in the management of people with peripheral neuropathies. This narrative review summarises the current literature on the efficacy and safety of physiotherapy to reduce pain and disability in people with radicular pain and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, 2 common peripheral neuropathies. For chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, the current evidence based on 8 randomised controlled trials suggests that exercise may reduce symptoms in patients with established neuropathy, but there is a lack of evidence for its preventative effect in patients who do n

SUBMITTER: Jesson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7808681 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature