Serving the City of St. Louis
Neuropathy Treatment in St. Louis City
City residents living with burning or numb feet do not have to settle for another prescription — from the Central West End to South City to the near north side, the clinic is a short drive.
Close to the city, focused on the cause
The clinic at 4477 Woodson Rd is fifteen to twenty minutes from most city neighborhoods via I-64 or I-70, directly beside Lambert Airport with on-site parking. That matters more than it sounds: this is a program of visits, and a short drive is what makes finishing one realistic.
What is actually wrong with the nerve
City patients are usually managed on symptom drugs alone — gabapentin, pregabalin, duloxetine — which quiet the signal and leave the cause running. What we look for instead is the failing system underneath: narrowed microvessels suffocating the nerve, glucose degrading conduction, or myelin and autonomic decay, frequently mixed with nutritional or autoimmune drivers. See what your symptom pattern means.
The therapies that follow
Vascular work, regenerative signaling, infrared and light therapy, neuromodulation and metabolic correction — chosen from the evaluation, not from a menu. Detail on advanced neuropathy treatments, with the plan issued in large print and plain language.
Why symptom control stalls
Because the nerve keeps degrading while the signal is muffled. Treating the environment the nerve lives in — circulation, metabolism, inflammation — is what changes the trajectory rather than the volume. Explained at the science of nerve terrain rehabilitation.
The first step is free
The Nerve Damage Score is five large-print questions and about two minutes, with a plain-language report emailed to you. Start here.
Frequently asked questions
How long is the drive from the city?
Fifteen to twenty minutes from most city neighborhoods via I-64 or I-70 to 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 104, next to Lambert Airport with on-site parking.
My doctor says it is idiopathic. Does that mean nothing can be done?
It usually means the cause has not been found yet, which is not the same thing. There are eleven drivers that routinely go unlooked-for. Start here: the 11 hidden drivers your doctor missed.
What is the Regenerve Protocol?
A sequence that establishes the drivers first and treats the terrain the nerve lives in, rather than managing the symptom indefinitely. Detail: the Regenerve Protocol.
Nearby: St. Louis County · University City · Clayton · Ferguson
Who we see from the City of St. Louis
City patients often reach us through a hospital system rather than a private office, and frequently after an emergency department visit for a foot problem that turned out not to be an emergency. That route tends to produce a diagnosis without a plan — the acute issue is addressed, the underlying nerve problem is noted, and nothing follows.
Getting here from the central corridor is a straightforward run out I-64 or I-70 to Woodson Road, with parking at the door. For patients using Metro, the clinic is reachable by bus with one connection, which matters more than it sounds: a treatment plan that requires transport a patient does not have is not a plan.
When the problem is circulation rather than nerve
Burning, aching feet that worsen with walking are not automatically neuropathic. Peripheral artery disease produces leg and foot pain through an entirely different mechanism, and the two are commonly confused — including by clinicians, because both are more prevalent in the same populations.
How the patterns differ
Arterial pain comes on predictably with exertion and eases within minutes of stopping, in any position. Neuropathic pain is typically worse at rest and at night, and walking sometimes improves it. Feet that are cool, hairless and slow to refill after pressure suggest arterial supply; feet that are warm with burning and altered sensation suggest nerve.
The two coexist often enough that finding one is not a reason to stop looking for the other. Where circulation is limited, treating the nerve alone will not work, because the tissue cannot repair without supply.
Why this gets missed
A pulse check at the ankle is a crude screen and can be normal in significant disease. Where the history suggests it, non-invasive vascular measurement gives a number rather than an impression, and it changes the treatment order: supply first, then nerve.
What this changes about treatment
Circulation-directed therapy, glucose stabilization and nutritional correction all target the environment the nerve lives in. Where arterial disease is significant, the appropriate step may be a vascular referral rather than anything we offer — and we will say so rather than treat around it.
Common questions
My feet hurt more when I walk. Is that neuropathy?
It may be arterial rather than neuropathic. Pain that arrives at a predictable walking distance and stops within a few minutes of rest points toward circulation. The symptom patterns are compared here.
Can I have both problems at once?
Yes, and it is common. Both share metabolic risk factors, so finding one raises rather than lowers the likelihood of the other. Each needs its own assessment.
Do you accept patients on Medicare or Medicaid?
Coverage questions are answered directly before anything is scheduled — see insurance and cost questions. Prior authorization, where required, is not a promise of payment and we will tell you what is uncertain.
The other mimics worth ruling out
Circulation is the most consequential thing to exclude, but it is not the only condition that produces symptoms patients and clinicians label as neuropathy.
Restless legs
An urge to move the legs that is worse in the evening and relieved by movement is a different disorder with different treatment, and it coexists with neuropathy often enough to muddle the picture. The distinguishing features are usually clear on history.
Nerve compression closer to the spine
Symptoms following a defined band rather than a stocking distribution suggest a root or an entrapment rather than a length-dependent neuropathy. Compression and double-crush patterns are worth excluding, because the treatment is entirely different.
Plantar fasciitis
Heel pain worst on the first steps of the morning is more likely mechanical than neuropathic, and the two get conflated regularly. How to tell them apart is a short read that saves a long detour.
Getting here, and staying with the plan
Neuropathy treatment is a course rather than a visit, and the most common reason a course stops is logistics. From the city the clinic is a direct run out I-64 or I-70 with parking at the door, and appointments are scheduled to avoid the worst of the airport traffic where possible.
If transport is a genuine obstacle, say so at the first visit. The plan can be structured around fewer, longer visits rather than abandoned halfway, which is what usually happens when nobody raises it.
Visit Regenerve
4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 104, St. Louis, MO 63134
Minutes from St. Louis Lambert International Airport
Call or text (314) 886-5902 · info@regenerve.com
Find out what is driving your nerve pain
Take the free Nerve Damage Score — five large-print questions, a plain-language report by email. Then talk with our team about a plan to treat the cause.