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Physiotherapy for people with painful peripheral neuropathies: a narrative review of its efficacy and safety.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of Type and Dose of Exercise on Neuropathic Pain After Experimental Sciatic Nerve Injury: A Preclinical Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The journal of pain · 2023Pooled it
- How effective are physiotherapy interventions in treating people with sciatica? A systematic review and meta-analysis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of spinal cord stimulation on pain, physical activity, and self-efficacy among patients with neuropathic pain.Pain management · 2026Trial
- A multimodal manual therapy, exercise, and psychological intervention for painful diabetic neuropathy: the NeuOst feasibility randomised controlled trial.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Sensory comfort: an overlooked dimension in neuropathic pain trials and management.Pain reports · 2026Article
- The Current Role of Physiotherapy in Systemic Light-Chain (AL) Amyloidosis and Multiple Myeloma.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The presence and prognosis of nerve pathology following whiplash injury: a prospective cohort study.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Understanding How Patients With Lumbar Radiculopathy Make Sense of and Cope With Their Symptoms.Cureus · 2024Review
- Chronic pain and local pain in usually painless conditions including neuroma may be due to compressive proximal neural lesion.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- [Quantitative sensory testing for neuropathic pain and its relevance for physiotherapy].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2022Review
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Pharmacological treatment for peripheral neuropathic pain has only modest effects and is often limited by serious adverse responses. Alternative treatment approaches including physiotherapy management have thus gained interest in the management of people with peripheral neuropathies. This narrative review summarises the current literature on the efficacy and safety of physiotherapy to reduce pain and disability in people with radicular pain and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, 2 common peripheral neuropathies. For chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, the current evidence based on 8 randomised controlled trials suggests that exercise may reduce symptoms in patients with established neuropathy, but there is a lack of evidence for its preventative effect in patients who do not yet have symptoms. For radicular pain, most of the 21 trials investigated interventions targeted at improving motor control or reducing neural mechanosensitivity. The results were equivocal, with some indication that neural tissue management may show some benefits in reducing pain. Adverse events to physiotherapy seemed rare; however, these were not consistently reported across all studies. Although it is encouraging to see that the evidence base for physiotherapy in the treatment of peripheral neuropathic pain is growing steadily, the mixed quality of available studies currently prevents firm treatment recommendations. Based on promising preliminary data, suggestions are made on potential directions to move the field forward.
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