This monograph presents a five-step treatment protocol to prevent and reverse Peripheral Neuropathy (PN)/Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), based on the following systemic medical principle: at the present time, removal of cause is a necessary, but not necessarily sufficient, condition for restorative treatment to be effective. Implementation of the five-step PN/PAD treatment protocol is as follows: Step 1: Obtain a detailed medical and habit/exposure history from the patient.
Step 2: Administer written and clinical performance and behavioral tests to assess the severity of the higher-level symptoms and degradation of executive functions
Step 3: Administer laboratory tests (blood, urine, imaging, etc)
Step 4: Eliminate ongoing PN/PAD contributing factors
Step 5: Implement PN/PAD treatments
This individually-tailored PN/PAD treatment protocol can be implemented with the data currently available in the biomedical literature. Additionally, while the methodology developed for this study was applied to comprehensive identification of diagnostics, contributing factors, and treatments for PN/PAD, it is general and applicable to any chronic disease/condition that, like PN/PAD, has an associated substantial research literature. Thus, the protocol and methodology developed to prevent or reverse PN/PAD can be used to prevent or reverse any chronic disease (with the possible exceptions of individuals with strong genetic predispositions to the disease in question or who have suffered irreversible damage from the disease)
