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Numbness After a Nerve Injury: What Electrical Stimulation Can and Cannot Do
If you've lost sensation in a hand or foot due to nerve injury, you'll notice that most of the information available focuses on muscle. Muscle wasting, muscle strengthening, preventing atrophy, stimulating a weak limb. Page after page of content. Then you look for something about the numbness, the part that actually bothers you most, and there is very little content available.
I want to address that gap, because there is real evidence that electrical stimulation improves sensory recovery. There is also, as far as I am aware, no evidence that any device you can buy and use at home will bring feeling back to a numb hand. Those two statements sit together and seem to be opposing; the difference between them is worth understanding before anyone sells you anything.