Weeks 1–2
Pain
Turn the volume down.
Manual therapy, soft tissue release, laser therapy and circulation-focused work calm an irritated nerve and take the edge off the burning.
What We Treat
Neuropathy treatment in Richardson.
Feet that feel like they belong to somebody else. Burning that gets louder the second the lights go out. We go after what’s irritating the nerve with a cause-first evaluation, instead of just quieting the signal.
Sound Familiar?
Does this sound like you?
- Burning in your feet that gets louder the second you lie down
- Socks that feel bunched up when they’re perfectly flat
- Watching the floor as you walk, because your feet stopped reporting back
- Pins and needles in your hands that turn a shirt button into a two-minute job
- Skimming one hand along the wall in a hallway you’ve walked for twenty years
- Feet so sensitive that a bedsheet across them is too much
Two or more? Keep reading.
Why It Happens
Numbness is a symptom. Something causes it.
Neuropathy is what happens when peripheral nerves get irritated, compressed or damaged. Nerves need two things to behave: blood flow, and room to glide as you move. Take either one away and they start sending noise instead of information, which is the burning, the pins and needles, the numbness. The reasons vary: diabetes, chemotherapy, a compressed nerve root in your low back, circulation deficits, chronic inflammation, scarring after surgery, or a stiff foot and ankle that keeps pinning the nerve every step.
That matters, because those need different plans. A cause-first evaluation is how we tell them apart: sensory testing, strength, gait analysis, balance screening, foot and ankle mobility, neural tension testing at the low back, and a look at circulation and swelling. Once we know where the nerve is actually getting shortchanged, the treatment stops being generic.
The Honest Truth
Numb feet don’t stay a foot problem.
If you keep waiting
- Your feet stop feeding your brain information, so balance gets worse than the numbness alone explains
- You walk less to feel safe, which weakens the calves, feet and hips that were keeping you upright
- A stumble you would have caught last year becomes a fall this year
If you start this week
- We map where the nerve is getting squeezed: the foot, the ankle, or up at the low back
- Your balance and your walking get measured, so progress is something you can see, not guess at
- You get a plan with an endpoint, aimed at confidence on your own floors and curbs
You’ve managed everybody else’s appointments for years and kept moving your own down the list. Numb feet aren’t something you simply live around. Get them evaluated while there’s more to work with.
How We Fix It
The same four phases. Built for your nerves.
Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what Pain, Prime, Perform and Prevent look like for neuropathy, one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit.
Weeks 2–6
Prime
Give the nerve room to move.
Guided neural mobility and decompression work, plus foot and ankle mobility, so the nerve can glide instead of getting pinned every step.
Weeks 6–10
Perform
Rebuild the base under you.
Strength for the small foot muscles, ankle control, calves, hips and core, paired with single-leg stability, proprioception and gait retraining.
Weeks 10+
Prevent
Keep your footing.
Reactive balance drills, fall prevention, footwear and home setup, and a program you can hold on your own. That’s the endpoint, not another standing appointment.
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Questions, Answered
What people ask before booking for neuropathy.
Yes, and here is the honest version. Therapy does not reverse nerve damage. What it does change is strength, balance, walking tolerance and how loud the symptoms are, by improving nerve mobility, circulation, foot and ankle mechanics and the muscles that keep you steady. It starts with a cause-first evaluation, because numbness driven by a compressed nerve root in your low back needs a different plan than numbness driven by diabetes.
Often they do, as nerve mobility, movement quality and circulation improve, and that is exactly what treatment targets. We will not hand you a number or a date, because nobody can know that before they have examined you. What you will get is a clear read on what is driving your symptoms, the plan we are using against it, and the measurements we will use to tell whether it is working.
That fear is the reason to train it, with somebody standing next to you. Neuropathy takes away the feedback your feet normally send, so your balance leans harder on vision and on strength. We rebuild that in a controlled setting, one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit, starting at a level that is safe for you today. If getting here is the hard part, ask about our concierge mobile clinic and we can treat you at home.
Book Your Visit
Ready when you are.
Request a time and a real person calls you back during business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.
- Hours Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm
- (972) 526-5693 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
- No referral needed to start
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Visit Us
Care this good, this close.
On Point Movement & Performance
- 445 Walnut St. STE 109, Richardson, TX 75081 (opens in a new tab)
- (972) 526-5693
- Fax: (469) 784-9424
- info@onpointmvp.com
- Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm