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Condition
Neuropathy treatment
in Lakeland and The Villages, FL
Burning feet, numbness and unsteadiness are worth taking seriously. We will tell you plainly what care can change and what it cannot, then build a non-surgical plan around the honest answer.
- Neuromed protocol on site
- 22 years in practice
- $47 new-patient exam
- 22 years in practice
- $47 new-patient exam
Medically reviewed by Dr. Justin Bergin, DC Updated September 14, 2026
Quick summary
Peripheral neuropathy is damage to the nerves serving the hands and feet. Diabetes is the most common driver. Established nerve damage is not undone, and no clinic can honestly claim otherwise. What good care does change is pain, burning, numbness, balance, sleep, daily function and often the rate at which the condition progresses. ChiroMed treats it without surgery or nerve medication. First visit $47.
Understanding neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy is damage to the nerves that carry signals between the spinal cord and the rest of the body. When those nerves are damaged the signals they send become unreliable, which is why symptoms feel strange: numbness in one place, burning in another, and often worse at night.
It is a category rather than a single disease, and more than a hundred types have been described. The nerves most often affected are the longest ones, which is why symptoms usually start in the toes and work upward, and why they appear in both feet rather than down one leg. Three fibre types can be involved. Small sensory fibres produce the burning and the electric jabs. Large sensory fibres produce the numbness and the loss of position sense that makes balance so hard in the dark. Motor fibres produce weakness and cramping. Timing matters too: nerves that are irritated or compressed behave very differently from nerves damaged for years.
Most people arrive at this page after a long stretch of being told there is nothing to be done. The feet burn at night. The floor feels padded, or distant, or not quite there. You have started watching where you put your feet on the stairs, and you have started declining things because of it. Somewhere along the way a clinician said the word neuropathy, wrote a prescription that made you foggy, and moved on. What ChiroMed offers is not an extravagant promise, and you will not find one anywhere on this page. It is an honest examination by Dr. Justin Bergin, DC, a plain account of what is realistically changeable in your case, and a non-surgical, drug-free plan when something can be. The first conversation costs $47.
Independent background: Peripheral Neuropathy, Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Symptoms
Most people recognise their own version somewhere in this list. Each one maps to a specific finding the examination checks for.
- Numbness in the toes, feet or fingertips
- Tingling or a pins and needles sensation
- Burning, often worst at night in bed
- Stabbing or electric shock pains
- Loss of balance, and near falls
- Reduced sensation, as though walking on padding
- Muscle weakness in the feet or hands
- Cramping in the calves or the arches
- Sensitivity to touch, even to bedsheets
- Feet that feel cold without being cold
Common causes
Diabetes
The most common cause by a wide margin. Sustained high blood glucose damages the small vessels feeding peripheral nerves, and the longest nerves suffer first.
Chemotherapy-induced nerve damage
Several chemotherapy agents are toxic to peripheral nerves, and symptoms often begin during treatment. Anything we do is coordinated around your oncology team.
Spinal nerve compression
Pressure on a nerve root at the spine can produce symptoms that look peripheral but come from somewhere else. It is mechanical, identifiable, and the most important thing to rule out.
Vitamin B12 deficiency
B12 is essential to the myelin sheath around nerves. Deficiency is more common than people expect, and it is worth a blood test through your physician.
Alcohol-related nerve damage
Long-term heavy alcohol use damages peripheral nerves directly and through the nutritional deficiencies that follow. We raise it without judgement.
Idiopathic neuropathy
In a meaningful share of cases no cause is ever identified, even after thorough investigation. That is a genuine medical answer rather than a failure.
How we treat neuropathy in Lakeland and The Villages
Care is aimed at the symptoms, the circulation and the function, not at a claim about the nerve damage itself. The plan combines Neuromed electroanalgesia for the pain signalling, cold laser therapy, and decompression where the examination shows the spine is contributing.
Neuromed electroanalgesia for the pain signalling
Neuromed delivers targeted electrical stimulation aimed at the abnormal pain signalling rather than at masking it with a prescription. It is the anchor of the protocol here and suits patients who want to avoid gabapentin and duloxetine, or who tried them and disliked how they felt.
Cold laser therapy for the affected tissue
Low-level light applied over the affected regions of the feet, ankles or hands, used alongside the neuromodulation rather than on its own. Where it helps, patients describe the burning becoming easier to sleep through first.
Spinal decompression where the spine is contributing
Some people carrying a neuropathy label actually have a nerve compressed at the spine. Where the examination points that way, computer-controlled decompression addresses the mechanical part directly.
What recovery usually looks like
Examination and baseline Your first two visits
Sensory testing, reflexes, balance screening and a review of your history and bloodwork. We map what sensation is present now, so later there is something objective to compare against.
The active phase The opening block of care
Visits sit closer together while the protocol is established. Where it works, the first changes people report are sleep and the night-time burning.
Honest reassessment At a set checkpoint in the plan
We repeat the same sensory and balance testing from the baseline. If nothing measurable has moved, you are told and the plan changes or stops.
Maintenance and risk management Ongoing, where it is earning its place
For patients who respond, attention shifts to holding the gain, protecting the feet and managing fall risk. For diabetic patients the largest long-term factor stays with your physician.
When to seek care sooner
There is real work you can do at home, and for diabetic neuropathy it matters more than anything we do in the office. Check your feet every single day, including between the toes and under the heel, using a mirror if you cannot see them easily. Never walk barefoot, indoors included. Buy shoes at the end of the day when feet are largest. Moisturise the skin but not between the toes. Have toenails and calluses managed by a podiatrist if sensation is reduced. Walk daily if you can. Ask your physician about a B12 level. Some things need attention this week. Get seen urgently for new or worsening weakness, a foot wound or ulcer that is not healing, spreading redness or discharge, symptoms that came on suddenly or affect one side far more than the other, or symptoms climbing rapidly up the legs.
Red-flag findings belong with a physician, promptly, and not with conservative care alone.
Cost, insurance and financing
What neuropathy care costs depends on what the examination finds and which parts of the protocol are genuinely indicated for you. Your first visit is $47 and covers the consultation, examination, X-rays if needed and the report of findings, including the honest prognosis.
The one published price
Consultation, Exam, X-Rays (If Needed) & Report of Findings: Only $47
What moves the cost
- Whether the picture is peripheral, spinal, or a combination of both
- Which elements of the protocol the examination actually supports
- How advanced the sensory loss already is, which shapes what is realistic
What a course includes
- Sensory, reflex and balance testing, plus the report of findings
- Repeat testing against your own baseline at the reassessment point
Payment: This line sits on the cash-pay side of the practice and we would rather tell you now than later. Where chiropractic care forms part of the plan, that portion bills insurance. Neuromed and cold laser are self-pay. Medicare coverage varies by plan and by service, and neuropathy is an area where policies differ a great deal, so our front desk will check your plan and tell you exactly what applies before you commit.
Who you would be seeing
Dr. Justin Bergin, DC has 22 years in practice and does the neuropathy examination personally at both offices. His position on this condition is deliberately plain: measure what sensation is there, say honestly what is likely to change, retest against that baseline, and tell the patient when the answer is no. He built ChiroMed to reject the rushed-appointment model, and this is where that matters most, because the honest version of the conversation takes longer than the optimistic one.
Dr. Justin Bergin, DC, 22 years in practice, performs the examination personally and explains the findings before any program starts. Lakeland: 6595 Florida Ave S, Suite 13, Lakeland. The Villages market office: 929 US-441 #404, Lady Lake. Both offices run the same program.
Getting to us
Neuropathy brings a great many Villages residents to the Lady Lake office on North US-441, just above CR 466 and reachable on the cart paths from Spanish Springs, Lake Sumter Landing and Brownwood Paddock Square, as well as by car from Summerfield, Oxford, Wildwood, Fruitland Park and Leesburg across Sumter, Lake and Marion counties. Balance and fall risk are the concerns we hear most often in that market. In Lakeland, the South Florida Avenue office serves Highland City, Christina, Scott Lake, Dixieland and the Polk Parkway corridor, about fifteen minutes south of Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center.
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Options compared, honestly
This is treated very differently depending on who you walk in to see. Here is the full set, including the options this practice does not provide.
| Criteria | Our approachNeuromed electroanalgesia with cold laser | Omniwave shockwave therapy | Nerve rehabilitation and balance work | Prescription medication such as gabapentin or duloxetine | Surgical nerve decompression |
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| What it is | In-office neuromodulation aimed at abnormal pain signalling, with low-level laser over the affected tissue | Acoustic pressure waves delivered by the Omniwave unit to targeted soft tissue and its blood supply | Graded exercise, proprioceptive drills and gait work to reduce fall risk | A daily prescription that dampens abnormal nerve firing throughout the body | An operation to release a peripheral nerve at a specific entrapment point |
| Typically considered when | Pain, burning and abnormal sensation dominate and you want to avoid daily medication | A localised soft-tissue or circulatory target is identified on examination | Balance and weakness are the limiting problem, which is often the case in older patients | Pain is severe and a physician judges the trade-off worthwhile | Imaging and testing confirm a discrete entrapment rather than diffuse nerve damage |
| Invasive? | No. Nothing injected, nothing cut | No | No | No, though the side effects are systemic and often limiting | Yes. Surgery with a genuine recovery period |
| Offered at ChiroMed? | Yes, at both offices | Yes, where the examination identifies a suitable target | Yes, built into the plan as rehabilitative work | Not prescribed here. Appropriate when pain is unmanageable and your physician judges the benefit worth the side effects | Not performed here. Appropriate when testing confirms a discrete entrapment that has not responded to conservative care |
There is no treatment anywhere, ours included, that undoes established nerve damage. Johns Hopkins Medicine and the American Diabetes Association both say so plainly, and we are not going to say something different in order to win your business.
What to expect
From evaluation to a plan for your neuropathy
A course, not a single visit. The examination decides the length and the cost, and both are written down first.
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01Evaluation
Orthopedic and neurological testing, with imaging on site where it changes the plan.
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02Findings, in plain language
What the examination actually found, and honestly whether this is a case conservative care can help at all.
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03A written program
Which disciplines, how many visits, over what period, and what it costs. Decided before anything begins.
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04Reassessment as it runs
Function is re-measured through the course. If the response says the plan should change, it changes.
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Find out what is actually driving it before choosing a program.
“I have had sich a great experience seeing Dr. Bergin. When other offices have told me I just had muscle damage or the only thing they could do for me was give shots, he said he had others ways to manage my pain and numbness, along with improving mobility. And he was right! I feel so much better!”
“I have had pain in my right upper back quadrant by my shoulder blade for at least a year now and the doctors have been unsuccessful in making the pain go away. I came to Dr. Bergin looking for some help. Within 3 to 4 weeks. My pain in that area is completely gone.”
“Dr. Bergin is phenomenal. Chronic lower back issues led a different doctor to mention back surgery to me. That was not an option I wanted to entertain. After a consult with Dr. B, he was confident that he could help resolve my back issues. I’ve been seeing him weekly to resolve the issue, and I am so pleased with the results so far! More mobility, less pain, and a great customer experience.”
“I bless the day that Dr. Bergin started working on me. I have had long standing pain for so long. After just a few visits my pain left and I feel so good. He is very patient oriented and caring. I regard him highly.”
“Dr. Bergin was instrumental in relieving my back pain which I had for many years. The techniques he used on relieving my back pain were impressive. I been going to chiropractors for years and Dr. Bergin is the best.”
Get in touch
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Exam and answers
History, orthopedic and neurological testing, imaging on site when it changes the plan.
- $47 consultation, exam, X-rays if needed and report of findings
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Neuropathy questions
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Is neuropathy a condition you can get rid of for good?
For most people with peripheral neuropathy, no. Johns Hopkins Medicine states plainly that peripheral neuropathy usually cannot be eliminated, though a great deal can be done to stop it worsening. Where an underlying cause is treatable, such as a B12 deficiency or a compressed nerve, the outlook is better. Anyone promising you more than that is selling something.
the clinic teamCan nerve damage in your legs be undone?
Established nerve damage is not undone. The American Diabetes Association says there is no treatment that repairs nerve disease once it is established, and that the focus belongs on keeping the feet and legs healthy and on managing pain. That is our position too. The realistic targets are symptoms, balance, sleep, function and the rate of progression.
the clinic teamWhere is the best place to get treatment for neuropathy?
Look for somewhere that examines you before proposing a plan, tests sensation and balance to create a baseline, tells you honestly what is and is not achievable, retests against that baseline, and refers you on when the answer is a neurologist or your physician. Ask any clinic what happens if you do not improve. The answer tells you a lot.
the clinic teamWhat is the most successful treatment for neuropathy?
It depends entirely on the cause, which is why the examination comes first. For diabetic neuropathy, glucose control managed by your physician does more than anything else. For a compressed spinal nerve, decompression addresses the mechanism. For symptom management without daily medication, neuromodulation and laser are the options we offer here.
the clinic teamWhat does Vicks Vaporub do for neuropathy?
It is a fair question and a common one. The menthol produces a cooling sensation on the skin that some people find genuinely soothing on burning feet at night, and it is harmless on intact skin. It does not act on the nerves themselves and it changes nothing about the condition. If it helps you sleep, use it, and do not put it on broken skin.
the clinic teamDoes Medicare cover neuropathy treatment?
Coverage varies by plan and by service, and neuropathy is an area where policies differ more than most. Some chiropractic services may be covered while device-based care commonly is not. Rather than guess, give our front desk your plan details and we will tell you exactly what applies to you before anything is scheduled.
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Find out what is actually driving it before choosing a program.
- 4.8 out of 5 on Google
- $47 consultation, exam and report
- 22 years in practice
Consultation, Exam, X-Rays (If Needed) & Report of Findings: Only $47