Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
You are doing the hardest thing a body can be asked to do. And while everyone watches the scans, your hands and feet are quietly carrying the chemotherapy with them: tingling, burning, fumbling buttons, dropping keys. Getting through this is supposed to be the prize. It shouldn’t come with a toll.
Taxanes, platinum agents, vinca alkaloids, bortezomib, the same drugs that killed the cancer also injured the long peripheral nerves, starting with the longest: the ones serving your feet and hands. For some it fades. For many, it plateaus and stays.
You were braced for the hair, the nausea, the fatigue. Nobody warned you the neuropathy might outlast all of it, or how guilty it feels to complain about anything when you’re the one who survived.
You didn’t go through this to spend the rest of it measuring your steps. Getting the cancer out and being well are not the same thing, and you’re allowed to want both.
Oncology’s job is to save your life, and it does that. But the nerve damage it leaves behind is usually handed a prescription (gabapentin or duloxetine) and a shrug: give it time. Your oncologist is watching the cancer. Your primary care doctor is watching everything else. Nobody’s job description includes your feet, so nothing in the standard handoff is built to rehabilitate the injured nerves. That is the gap, and it is the one this clinic works in.
CIPN patients arrive here with a particular weariness, they’ve already done a year or more of appointments and don’t want another open-ended one. Susan Mitchell, AP, treats CIPN inside a defined, staged structure with measured progress, because survivors deserve a finish line, not a treadmill.
The clinical logic: The acupuncture addresses the misfiring signal patterns that keep tingling and burning alive after the original insult has ended. ATP Resonance BioTherapy® supports the cellular energy production that chemo-injured fibers need to repair. O3 ReBoot Therapy® restores the microcirculation that delivers the raw materials.
We see patients during cancer treatment and after it, and the plan is built around your case. Where cancer is active, that changes what belongs in the plan and what doesn’t, and Susan weighs it at evaluation rather than applying a formula. Nothing changes with your medications except through your prescriber. Oncology teams across Broward County send us their patients, and many patients simply send themselves.
Susan Mitchell, AP
Clinical Director · 30+ years
Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set as a plan at your evaluation, built around your case. We hold to that plan for the most part, and adjust it as needed when your response calls for it.
How long you’ve had symptoms and how much sensation has changed sets your starting intensity.
Your baseline is measured at the evaluation, and adjustments follow what those numbers do over the course of care.
For some cases the finish line is regained sensation; for others, stopping the spread. We define it with you, not for you.
Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your case, then we discuss the investment in person.
Bring your treatment history and where the tingling and numbness sit now. We evaluate your case, including whether you’re not a candidate.
A staged, personalized plan built around your chemotherapy history and measured against your day-one baseline, not guessed.
The fine motor, the steady walk, and the full nights the bell was supposed to come with.
Fingertips that cooperate again, no more asking for help with the small things.
Feet that report the ground accurately, without the gravel-in-the-sock illusion.
Sleep that doesn’t require positioning your feet outside the covers.
Days that aren’t organized around what your hands and feet will allow, the way you pictured it when this started.
Some CIPN fades on its own in the months after treatment ends. A lot of it does not: signaling patterns entrench, balance erodes, and neuropathic feet quietly reorganize a life around what they can’t do. If you have already given it time and it hasn’t left, it isn’t planning to.
Your initial consultation is $45. Tell us your story, and we’ll evaluate your case.
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