To put many people's minds at ease, today's short ABC video talks about idiopathic neuropathy. That is the term given to neuropathy for which no cause is known and a great many people are diagnosed with it. It's important to realize that idiopathic neuropathy is real enough - your symptoms are the same as those for which a cause can be identified and the treatment will follow the same lines too. Just because the doctor has told you that your neuropathy is idiopathic doesn't diminish it in any way but it proves that science has a long way to go before they completely understand why neuropathy happens. One small note: the doctor in the video says that there are over 50 forms of neuropathy - most sources say that there are over one hundred!
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/DiagnosingPain/idiopathic-peripheral-neuropathy/story?id=4171536
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