Neural Therapy

Lower Extremity

There are also many conditions affecting the lower extremities that can be treated with great success using Huneke’s neural therapy.

Here, too, a detailed medical history and a thorough physical examination are an indispensable part of the neural therapist’s work.

As with the upper extremity (see there), one of the greatest challenges is distinguishing between radicular symptoms (usually caused by pressure on the nerve roots near the spine, e.g., in the case of a herniated disc) and pseudoradicular symptoms. This is because, otherwise, the therapy may fail to address the true causes, and surgical procedures — with their associated risks — may be performed unnecessarily.

Typical indications (selection) include:

• Coxarthrosis
• Periarthropathia coxae
• Iliac crest pain
• So-called trochanteric bursitis (inflammation of the hip bursa)
• “Unclear groin pain”
• Pain in the thigh muscles
• Gonarthrosis and gonalgia (painful knee)
• Discomfort in the area of the kneecap and patellar tip syndrome
• Calf pain or pain in the lower leg muscles
• Runner’s knee (also known as ITBS = iliotibial band syndrome, tractus syndrome, or “runner’s knee”)
• Achillodynia
• Ankle osteoarthritis (upper and lower)
• Supination trauma of the upper ankle joint
• Heel spur (pain), calcaneodynia, and plantar fasciitis
• Metatarsalgia, including Morton’s neuralgia
• Hallux valgus—including post-surgical cases
• Painful conditions affecting the toe joints
• Sudeck's disease (Morbus Sudeck or complex regional pain syndrome [CRPS Types 1 & 2])
• All painful conditions following surgery