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Late in her career, reader has time to find her purpose
PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY AND CHRONIC PAIN WARNING! Our clinic is taking every precaution and we follow strict CDC guidelines to ensure that our patients, clinic and staff are SAFE! Mesa, AZ — The most common method your doctor will recommend to treat your chronic pain and/or neuropathy is with prescription drugs that may temporarily reduce your symptoms. These drugs have names such as Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin, and are primarily antidepressant or anti-seizure drugs. These drugs may cause you to feel uncomfortable and have a variety of harmful side effects. Chronic pain and/or peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating balance problems. This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves in the hands and feet which causes the nerves to begin to degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow.
evaluation. As long as you have not sustained at least 95% nerve damage there is hope!
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NOTE: Once you have sustained 95% nerve loss, there is likely nothing that we can do for you. 3) How much treatment will your condition require?
Aspen Medical will do a chronic pain and neuropathy severity examination to determine the extent of the nerve damage as a public service to you and/or your family and friends. This neuropathy/pain severity examination will consist of a detailed sensory evaluation, extensive peripheral vascular testing, and a detailed analysis of the findings of your neuropathy.
The treatment that is provided at Aspen Medical has three main goals. 1) Increase blood flow 2) Stimulate and increase small fiber nerves 3) Decrease brain-based pain The treatment to increase blood flow, stimulate small nerve fibers and get you back to health is our new $50,000.00 SANEXAS UNIT!
As you can see in Figure 2, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to not get the nutrients to continue to survive. When these nerves begin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numbness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms. The main problem is that your doctor has told you to just live with the problem or try the drugs which you don’t like taking because they make you feel uncomfortable. There is now a facility right here in Mesa that offers you hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (See the special neuropathy severity examination at the end of this article) In order to effectively treat your neuropathy three factors must be determined. 1) What is the underlying cause? 2) How much nerve damage has been sustained.
In addition, we use a state-of-the-art diagnostics like the TM Flow diagnostic unit to accurately determine the increase in blood flow and a small skin biopsy to accurately determine the increase in small nerve fibers! The Sanexas electric cell signaling system delivers energy to the affected area of your body at varying wavelengths, including both lowfrequency and middle-frequency signals. It also uses amplitude modulated (AM) and frequency modulated (FM) signaling. During a treatment session, the Sanexas system automatically changes to simultaneously deliver AM and FM electric cell signal energy. THE GREAT NEWS IS THAT SANEXAS IS COVERED BY MEDICARE AND MOST INSURANCE! Depending on your coverage, your treatment could be little to no cost to you! The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological and vascular
Aspen Medical will be offering this chronic pain and neuropathy severity examination from now until March 31, 2022. Call 480274-3157 to make an appointment to determine if your chronic pain and peripheral neuropathy can be successfully treated. Due to our very busy office schedule, we are limiting this FREE consultation offer to the first 15 callers. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SUFFER ANOTHER MINUTE, CALL Call 480-2743157 … NOW! We are extremely busy and if your call goes to our voicemail, please leave a message and we will get back to you asap.
480-274-3157 4540 E Baseline Rd., Suite 119 Mesa Az 85206 8
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MARCH 2022
BY MARISA PEER
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I’m at the age where I’m thinking about retirement and my children are grown up and are, more or less, out of the house. While I’m grateful to have had a stable career that’s provided for my family — if I’m honest with myself (and you) — I’ve never felt like I was really living my passion or dream. For years, I ignored thoughts of those feelings that I could be more fulfilled, thinking they were unrealistic or for younger people. I’ve always been very practically minded, something that when looking back, I realize was instilled in me by my parents when I was a young girl. So many people talk about having a “purpose” in life, but I’ve never felt that. Having a family and raising kids has certainly been meaningful and gratifying, but it doesn’t feel like it’s scratched that itch. I fear it might also be too late to figure it out. What would your advice be for someone who is winding down their career but still searching for their purpose? Is it too late for me? Signed, Searching
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Dear Searching, I have great news for you: It’s not too late and you are in a perfect position to find your fulfilling life purpose as you embark on retirement. One of the most common causes of depression I’ve seen in my years as a therapist is people who don’t follow their purpose or deepest desires. Of course, this doesn’t mean everyone should quit their jobs to pursue a career as an actor or musician or pilot; sometimes, as you’re well aware, that’s just not feasible. But we limit ourselves when we think that “finding our purpose” has to equal a full-time, salaried career. Our careers are certainly one way to find our passion and purpose, but far from the only way. I assume, because you mentioned a stable career up until this point, you are relatively set up financially for the next phase of your life, which is wonderful. But
before I give you advice on how to figure out what you’d like to do next, I want you to open yourself to a concept from Zen Buddhism known as “beginner’s mind.” Beginner’s mind is an attitude of openness, eagerness and curiosity we can bring to everything we do. It’s something children naturally possess, but we tend to lose it as we get older — which only makes us age even faster. If the practical mind says, “I can’t do that, I’ve never tried it before and I’ll surely look like a fool,” then the beginner’s mind says: “I wonder what interesting and exciting thing might happen if I tried that for the very first time. Perhaps I’ll give it a try without expectations.” Even if it feels uncomfortable and unfamiliar to you, try to embark on this next stage with this mindset, and let your practical self take a bit of a rest. When it comes to finding what you might be interested in doing next, ask yourself: What did you love to do as a child? Often, the activity, hobby or thing we spent our time doing between the ages of 7 and 12 says something about our core, intrinsic nature and desires — in other words, what we loved before we got bogged down by expectations and responsibilities of society and adulthood. You may think, “well, I’m looking for my purpose, not a mere hobby!” But that’s just it, very often the things we’re curious about and enjoy lead us down an unexpected path to what we’re passionate about. My advice is that you don’t set out to find your one true passion right away and expect to pursue it single-minded zeal. It rarely works like that. Instead, use beginner’s mind to explore several things that pique your interest and curiosity. Allow yourself to fail, to be surprised, to change your mind. In other words, allow yourself not to be practical. Secondly, expand your definition of what purpose might look like. I once had a client who longed to be a doctor and
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