Apparatus for displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy

A method for mitigating peripheral nerve neuropathy in a patient undergoing chemotherapy, comprising:

• administering a chemotherapeutic agent to the patient during a chemotherapy treatment session;
• and
• exerting a compressive force on a body part of the patient to at least partially displace blood within dermis tissue comprising peripheral nerve endings while retaining dermis tissue cell life, wherein the body part is a hand or a foot, and wherein the compressive force is maintained at a magnitude that simultaneously limits delivery of chemotherapeutic agents to peripheral nerve endings by partial occlusion of blood flow and retains dermis tissue cell life by allowing blood flow sufficient to sustain oxygenation while chemotherapeutic agents are present in circulating blood of the patient.

A method for mitigating peripheral nerve neuropathy in a patient undergoing chemotherapy, comprising:

• administering a chemotherapeutic agent to the patient during a chemotherapy treatment session;
• and
• during the chemotherapy treatment session in which the chemotherapeutic agent is administered to the patient, exerting a distributed compressive force on a body part of the patient to at least partially occlude blood flow to dermis tissue comprising peripheral nerve endings while retaining dermis tissue cell life, wherein the body part is a hand or a foot, and wherein the distributed compressive force is maintained at a magnitude for at least a portion of the chemotherapy treatment session, the magnitude being sufficient to simultaneously reduce exposure of the peripheral nerve endings to chemotherapeutic agents circulating in the blood and simultaneously maintain sufficient blood flow to provide oxygenation and retain dermis tissue cell life while chemotherapeutic agents are present in circulating blood of the patient.