The wide variety of symptoms resulting from neuropathy (also known as peripheral neuropathy) reflect the fact that it can be caused by an equally wide range of conditions involving disease and damage to peripheral nerves.
Although there’s a wide range of symptoms related to neuropathy, there are commonalities to the pain that people experience, notes says Vernon Williams, MD, a sports neurologist who is director of the Center for Sports Neurology and Pain Medicine at Cedars-Sini Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles.