Abstract:Background: Diabetes mellitus has become a rapidly rising global health-care problem in the recent decades. Amongst the wide spectrum of concurrent complications, Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is quite common and distressing. The sensory symptoms may vary from numbness, hypo-aesthesia, allodynia to severe paresthesia. Long term consequences of these sensory disturbances are foot ulceration, imbalance, increased risk of fall and even amputations too. Since these symptoms interfere with the quality of lif… Show more
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