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PRT Pain Relief Therapy - can it be beneficial for idopathic peripheral neuropathy?
I'm looking for research & personal experience as I have the chance to take an online course teaching PRT.
I've had severe tingling, burning, swelling & prickling in both feet for 2 years now. It keeps me up at night & limits my physical activity. I'm currently on 75 mg Pregabalin twice a day which helps a bit but not enough.
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Hello, Is "Pain Relief Therapy" the same as "Pain Reprocessing Therapy"? Just curious. I don't have an idiopathic issue myself since it's known what's causing my neuropathic foot problems, but I can understand your challenges and frustrations. For my case I had to stop pregabalin as it wasn't helping that much and the side effects with dulling my mind made it unsuitable for daily work and concentration. On the research side, I have used Claude Opus 4.6 extended and ChatGPT 5.4 extended in "research" mode (preferring Claude). I wish you luck and if you find anything interesting, please post.
Have you had surgery on your toes/feet and How old are you?
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Can you explain what Claude 4.6 and ChatGPT5.4 are? And did thuey help with your neuropathic problems?
@martyk Those are the top AI frontier models. Google Gemini is the other. The numbers are just their latest versions. I have used them all and find I consistently obtain better results from Claude. Plus, I like Claude's company Anthropic more than ChatGPT's company OpenAi. Anthropic still has some morals. For deeper research I suggest switching Claude's model mode from Sonnet 4.6 over to Opus 4.5 and select the "research" option. I hope that helps. Other readers may have different opinions than me.
These tools help me with research. The trick is know how to describe your questions for the AI prompt. There are many videos on YouTube that could help you get started as a beginner if you give it a try. Just keep in mind that AI gets its training from the internet and does its search on the internet, so junk in junk out. However, there's real intelligence in those systems.
It's amazing what they can find and explain. However, they shouldn't be a substitute for your providers but instead a way to prepare questions for the next time you meet them. For me personally, I've been getting much more information from AI than from my medical providers. Think of it this way, the AI can quickly scan millions of medical articles, research papers, etc. within seconds. My doctors only knows what's in their heads and so little research because they are booked with patients. I think once all doctors adopt AI as a tool, we should see the level of care quality increase. Or at least they will have more information at their fingertips.