Exercises for Peripheral Neuropathy in the Feet and Legs

Peripheral Neuropathy treatment is challenging. One may have foot tingling and numbness or possibly fingers and hand tingling from chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) or other medical reasons. In this video, I share exercises for relief from neuropathy pain with sensory treatment at home, balance training, and peripheral neuropathy exercises.
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[@CancerRehabPT]

𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘂𝘁? Shop my Foot and Toe Neuropathy Handout: bit.ly/Foot-Neuropathy-Exercises

[@rachadgibson4039]

😂❤

[@rockinrob2004]

@CancerRehabPT Thank you SO much for this video, this has helped me very much doing it on a daily. Between chemo & my diabetes + reading about certain meds & what they have done to my nerves. I don't know how or why my docs don't help me in the long run they just keep throwing meds, I appreciate your help & your calming voice.

[@littlemoms]

❤thank you so much!

[@annlucy9829]

Thankyou for this XX

[@RamrajiRoopnarine]

L77⁷​@@rockinrob2004

[@shineefive]

does anyone else feel like they're wearing socks when they're not?

[@roncoleman7813]

Yep!

[@user-eh3tt3th4j]

Yes!

[@staceyshields3118]

Yes

[@cindysmith6509]

Yep

[@samiam9365]

Yes

[@AuntyLaniLee]

THIS IS A VERY GOOD VIDEO! I am 83 and am almost wheelchair bound because of chemotherapy neuropathy. I have suffered since 2017. I hope it's not too late. Thank you.

[@Jacobcampoo36]

Thanks for sharing. Will try to do these execises.❤

[@lorettawatkins5024]

These are the exercises I learned to relieve heel spurs. Do in bed upon waking, where possible. Love you, and thank you.

[@bonitabonita3431]

Thank You!

[@brianlykins6663]

Thank you for this video. I hope you know just how much you help folks. God bless and stay safe.

[@annamelendrez8929]

Thank you. Will try it everyday!!

[@user-ms6rf5nh6q]

Thank you. Blessings!

[@fazeelalaher6250]

Thank you Kelly, much appreciated for your efforts, I started this week with the burning feet.

[@markl5007]

Yes I also get burning feet there are days where the pain can be very excruciating… some days hardly anything

[@greghall8535]

Thank you for sharing these

[@barbarahodges8835]

Thank you. Thank you. I love your video and did these exercises and they really helped me!!

[@barbarahodges8835]

Thank you for sharing this video. I am doing these exercises for my feet.

[@ruthbaker4562]

WONDERFUL!!!! THANK YOU KELLY,, ❤ YOU ARE SUCH A BLESSING@

[@CancerRehabPT]

Ahh thank YOU!! I really appreciate it!

[@lolitaray7936]

Thank you for these exercises. Experienced neuropathy pain for the first time ever due to chemo treatments and didn't know what to do to calm the effects. Cant wait to try these exercises. Im also experiencing swelling in the ankles and feet. Wearing light compression socks (15-20). This help control some of the swelling when put on first thing in the morning. Thank you. Subscribed & Following 👍

[@elizabethfeldman2332]

Thank you for making this video and make it available for everyone, you not idea how helpful it’s been for me , you’re professional in the ways you explain each exercise. Thanks

[@chandrakantlingadhal1151]

Thank you and Best wishes

[@fayiznalu8411]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏

[@academyofunlimitedpossibil8152]

Thank So much for these exercises. I know they will help heal me❤

[@annieyue9184]

Thank you for the excellent video of your clear instructions and explanation.

[@CancerRehabPT]

You’re so welcome!

[@vyvydinh6920]

Thank you …. Very clear instructions ❤

[@keebearfull]

Valuable content! Thank YOU! The beginnings of some relief are being felt.

[@CancerRehabPT]

That’s great! I’m hopeful you continue to find some with it 🙂

[@selvacoumarys2863]

Hi kelly, this video of yours is superb and thanks for sharing simple exercises with adequate demonstration. God bless you dear❤

[@CancerRehabPT]

Thank you for your kind words! I’m so glad it was helpful 🙂

[@debrabullion3766]

Thank you! I’m going to implement these. I do some. But you gave me good ideas. I find walking barefoot on the beach helps. It exercises, desensitizes the feet. The only place a can go barefoot. Uses muscles that don’t get used in shoes. Unfortunately it’s been mostly too cold to go. So I’ll try your recommendations. Thank you!

[@isabelcastillo2394]

Thank you. Shared with my brother as we both have diabetes and neuropathy. Very helpful.

[@syedmurtazajaffar8833]

Superb! Thanks a ton.

[@sandeeparadisi3301]

Excellent Video! Thank you so much!!!

[@charlesbale8376]

Very helpful, thank you.

[@jamesgeorge1709]

My friend Brook has it really bad just a couple months ago she had to have a big toe amputated, She used to be one of my favorite customers she had some back injuries and always had to wear a plastic back brace and thru all that adversity she was and still is a ray of sunshine. She always seems to be happy sometimes I could cry for her. Her husband understands and once in a while I take her out to eat. I get feeling sorry for myself and thinking about her makes me feel guilty about that. If there are such things as Angeles she is one.❤

[@fionaestherfortuin4185]

What a wonderfull person you are That's my story I have periferal heuropathy due to back failed op left me with severe sceptacimia an then 5 yrs later abcess removal on c4 c5 c6 very painfull op both times six weeks in hospital today I take widows or lovely oeople out for lunch or I take tea and what ever I bake with 2 or 3 friends an we put some sunshine in their life's...

[@kenaiello4851]

It can get that bad they will take your toe off dang.

[@hugovanderlaan8505]

They help me against cold feet. Thank you again, darling.

[@markl5007]

Cold feet yes I also get purple feet as well..due to no feelings in both feet the left side of my body is much weaker… I am thankful we got a makeover of our bathtub to a shower conversion… thanks to our apartment manager for there help as well… it’s been a huge help for both my wife and myself

[@LKalyuzhny]

thank you!

[@nicanoramosota3436]

Thank you so much for this video. I will try these exercises for my CINP .

[@user-re2kb6xy5w]

Thank you for this! I have been diagnosed with Peripheral neuropathy and wearing my HIGH HEELS caused it!!!! I am starting acupuncture because I've heard good things about that, but I'm going to incorporate these exercises in my day to day life as well to try and gain feeling again in my toes and soles of my feet :)

[@pasinettataylor1534]

Thanks lady thanks a lot I have to go on the 9 of this month for an MRI so my doctor can find out why my feet have soooo much burning and numbness in my feet omg this terrible I can't drive because of it smh I'm trying these great exercises NOW!

[@maryrose6302]

Thank you Kelly. Your videos are always so well done and professional.

[@CancerRehabPT]

Thank you so much for the kind words 🙂 I really appreciate it

[@lesliemiller6216]

Thank you.

[@nanaheather9994]

Thank you so much!!!

[@ivanhicks887]

Excellent Presentation Thankyou

[@user-ig4yy6fb4l]

Thank you!

[@BJocsak-qc2xt]

Great, clear instructions. Reminds me of exercises I was given in PT after chemo. Thanks for sharing these quality videos. Very helpful

[@BexfromTexas]

You are lucky. You must hv great doctors. I wasn't given any instruction on exercises after chemo.

[@BJocsak-qc2xt]

@@BexfromTexas PT is provided to help restore function after breast cancer surgery and chemo. Hope that clarifies. Neuropathy remains. Am very thankful for drs and nurses. Stay strong.

[@CancerRehabPT]

I love that! Thank you for sharing this and for the support!

[@PeghoueIreneNadege]

Thanks for sharing this

[@MunchosBunchos]

Thank you! Five days ago I randomly started having painful feet. No idea why or how. Definitely going to give some of these exercises a try

[@adamburns2452]

If you are drinking bottled water quit now

[@pierrelabounty9917]

Thanks for this.

[@happydays3678]

Thanks very much 🙏 ❤

[@manuelcuellar8954]

Great video thank u

[@anandadesilva6558]

I have been suffering from this for 6 years now after a major surgery for a Fistula in the lower spine. I hope this will help me. Thanks Kelly for an informative clip.

[@carolbattle8010]

Thanks for sharing.

[@user-bk7pg1ny5l]

Thank you for the video. It been informative and reinforces some of the stretches I find myself doing naturally. Thanks again...

[@robertocontreras1987]

Thank You ❤️

[@paintilludrop]

❤❤❤❤ great to see all i sm doing, silver sneakers slso. Chemo neuropathy in both feet, left worse .. i pratice balance. Its scary sad that it will can get worse. Not better. But we try..to stay upright active

[@fosterkhan8697]

Thanks. Madam. For. Very. Valuable. Information. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jimfournier9065]

Great ideas, thank you!

[@user-pt5fu8nb9n]

Thanks a lot

[@aloysiusschulte648]

From another old goat, I also experienced a great increase in foot neuropathy while taking statin drugs. The doctors said it was caused by alcohol. Stopped taking statins after some 15 years of taking them. The severe pain stopped within a few months and overall neuropathy is slowly fading.

[@KgotlaMogotsi-il7il]

Thanks so much 🙏

[@annettechattree5910]

Thanks for sharing these simple ex

[@otalexander1]

Thank you

[@juliestout4692]

Thank you for the video exercises. They are easy to do and gentle. I was diagnosed with RSD in 1993 and am having a flare up now of burning at the bottom of my feet alternating with icy cold feet. Have made major changes in diet the past y

[@juliestout4692]

Year,with no ulterior up in pain. Believing exercises will help. Most of these can be done in a pool also,less strain on muscles and tendons.

[@user-dd3mk8zm2x]

God bless...thank you for your excellent videos

[@tasneemcyclewala4082]

Excellent vedio dear

[@graceaded5]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@rs-bi8yf]

Thank You ! Also diet very important to me , I also do way better When I stay away from sugar !

[@paulinemusa8823]

Great exercises..i am a beneficiary ❤

[@LittleOrla]

Thank you so much. Easy exercises that can be done throughout the day while washing dishes, standing in line, watching tv, . . .

[@CancerRehabPT]

Exactly! I hope they help 🙂

[@TonniWilliams]

This was a very helpful video :).

[@pritirai447]

Thank you ❤

[@eugenemason1299]

Your tips was great

[@jamesreid8638]

These are great exercises. Thank you🙏🏼🌺🙏🏼

[@robertpirrotta8747]

Great video. I do have these symptoms. I also have Foot Drop with the same foot. Any suggestions for exercises. Thank you

[@tompwwoodward526]

I try to do these foot and leg as my left leg is nunb from a lower back surgery plus I am type two diabetes And I thank you for info this does give me balance issuses also use a cane and a walker thank you again

[@user-oz9fs1xs9u]

Thank you so much for ALL your videos! I share them with friends and family, now we are all getting older. I experienced the strangest thing when going for a walk around the block, only half mile or so- my feet got NUMB! This was very concerning as I immediately thought I might fall. It happened a few times, but not consistently. It DID make me admit I'm getting old, and better take action to recover function.

[@luvernelymon2622]

Thanks

[@nancyv6006]

I just had knee replacement and the tightness in the knee and foot is excruciating so much that it’s hard walk. This sounds similar to some of my PT so excited to use this information thank you.

[@jamesgordon8867]

Photobiomodulation lights really helps

[@Mansmatters]

These exercises can be really beneficial for so many people

[@margaretmolloy257]

Thanks so much these exercises are really helpful. ❤

[@gipsiesrealm]

Don’t know if this will help anybody but I had neuropathy in my feet and hand had to cut out sugar and I had to add vitamin B‘s back into my system. They were just destroyed vitamin B helps with restless leg syndrome as well as neuropathy, but it is the full spectrum of vitamin B I use nutritional yeast, that does not have all the amino acids in it just plain nutritional yeast and it works great

[@iqah0701]

Thank you! So you get vitamin B from nutritional yeast or which supplement brand do you take?

[@agathacuffy7910]

Wow! Thanks much, i learned a lot from this exercise program, i am going to try them all, thanks again, i really do appreciate it. 😂❤❤❤

[@johngraham5948]

Great video

[@leelaaloori8328]

Thank you madam 🙏

[@cynthiadaniels2887]

Hi Kelly ...thank you very much for the exercises..❤ just wane find out if a person can use medical for it aswell...?

[@angelessanchez9380]

Lately I feel pain on the back of my feet. It is the padding under the Achilles tendons. I am going to do these exercises to see if they help me. I will keep you posted. Thank you

[@jacquiedeforest2986]

I have neuropathy in the toes on the left foot only. I do not have Diabetes or Cancer. (I'm guessing this problem started later in life - maybe due to a stroke I had in 1999 caused by a Chiropractor's neck adjustment!) I notice more tingling when I'm stressed or even when I've finished step/exercising. Many times it gets worse at night when I'm trying to fall asleep. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with these exercises. 😍

[@sheilaroberts1534]

Thank you 🎉

[@CancerRehabPT]

You’re welcome! 🙂

[@habibakishimi2630]

Thank you is very interesting, i have neuropathy due to bogging of the disc

[@tommytatum9396]

Thanks!

[@CancerRehabPT]

Thank you so much for your generosity and support! I greatly appreciate it!

[@nowakezoneforever6021]

These exercises are great!! I don’t have neuropathy but my feet ache at the end of the day. I tried these exercises earlier this evening and my feet and ankles felt so refreshed! Great job Kelly!! Thank you!!

[@CancerRehabPT]

Wonderful! I’m so happy to hear that!

[@ramatsimelarmamosebo9660]

Thank U for the exercise because my feet are tingling

[@tonic2335]

Doing this along with Melt for my feet

[@harundemirtas1181]

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[@clavo3352]

Excellent , Excellent, Excellent !!! Would like to buy some large laminated cards showing Quick Exercise Reminder Illustrations .

[@JoeHienSia]

Depending on where the entrapment is,which nerve, if hypertonicity or fluids is involved and whether its more towards the periperal of a nerve root problem.. these intervention may either decrease or amplify the pain

[@MultiLinlyn]

❤thank you

[@user-zz3bv6zf1h]

Thank s ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@zebeldog]

Thanks for the different exercises. One question you took a ball for stimulation what if I used a spiked ball? Plus would an electrostimulation device help?

[@walterschilling4512]

I have been dealing with this condition for about 3 years now, I walk 30 minutes everyday , and until recently, I have found that absoultely no sugar what so ever! The slighest of a rasin or cranberry can set off a reaction for stiffness and burning..I am maintaining a calming feeling as long as I watch not even eating fruit. so I do a lot of vegatbles and my condition is stable. I have done everything under the sun ,but to no advail. I am learning to squat on my total gym and hold at that position for a couple minutes. I also suffer from L-4 & L-5 stenosis.... this helps a lot...I have also noticed that some of your toe & heal lifts can also be acomplished on the machine.

[@cynthiajohnson798]

Carnivore diet. All fruits and vegetables have oxalates that crystalize within us turning into glass shards that cut us microscopically inside causing inflammatory issues. Yesterday go to our nerves. Fruits and vegetables are fullof neurotoxins.

[@cathylangfitt]

Hello Cancer Rehab PT. This is Cathy and it is nice to meet you. Do you have your fingernails painted or just your toenails in this video?

[@WinsMang]

Yes

[@DorisMorris-uv2fc]

This is Doris morris thank you i have a nerve ending in my Ankle.

[@jennymisteqq695]

Any relation to the late Jean Morris who married the late Jack Mister?

[@sillylindomatador]

I was suffering from this. My feet and hands was having this tingling/burning sensation. It was horrible. I wasn’t able to sleep, the burning and numbness was insane. However, if i was able to heal, you too. I will share it below

[@jennymisteqq695]

So far, all the Comments are people thanking the video’s host on the exercises presented. No one has come back and Commented about how helpful they were. If your reading this, come back after you've done the exercises for a considerable length of time and let the viewers know how well they worked for you. I plan on doing that!

[@prakashchopde9227]

Doing some of these foot exercises in sleeping positions will give similar exercise benefits ?

[@jnewman1718]

👋 I hope you'll read my comment/question. This is one best specific exercises (video) I'm looking for. I want to confirm something first with you. Does neuropathy always involve pain? I have been experiencing some "weird" feeling in my toes and ball of foot area in both feet for over a year now. But there's no pain. Just feeling as if I'm wearing on bunched up socks but there's none. Again, no pain whatsoever. Is it possible that I might have a foot neuropathy? Need your insight.🙏🏽

[@Grannynan]

I have neuropathy in my feet. I am not experiencing numbness, but "bunched up socks" describes it perfectly! I used to get shooting pains at night, but my doctor prescribed gabapenton. I tolerate it well, and it stopped the pain, but I am hesitant to stay on it. I will try these exercises. Good luck with your treatment!

[@michaelmoody9097]

God ,first time someone is saying what i feel,i ve been having these sensations since a year ago,toes burning,feels like crumbeled togheter,tingling,it is worst when i we are socks,it is like i walk on little marbles in front,from the ball of the foot and toes.Been to MRIs,electrodes in my muscles for the nerves,taken fluid in my spine,all the blood test were fine,no diabetes at all.I am a mystery .Not much pain but like ants are running on my toes,but still feel them.

[@michaelmoody9097]

Wow same times as me,some of things i ve seen on the internet about covid,cause i ve had the virus in october 22 and my toes started tingling in January 23

[@Reddot1954]

I have the same issue. I’m glad I’m not the only one, thought I was just loosing it. It Started a year ago. Feels like bunched sucks or packing tape at the ball of my feet. No reason why this started. Circulation I think is part of the issue. Compression socks only help a little. I’m going to try these exercises more often.

[@lindacarmelle8333]

I have CRPS and lymphadema coes with that.Programs often dont mention CRPS it is considered an invisible illness .Are there any specific programs you candirect those who have CRPS towards? Yes many of these exercises have been sharedwth me by past physicaltherapists.