Peripheral nerves may be cut, bruised, or torn by
fractured bones or blows. A torn or cut nerve should be treated by a specialist
in such work. If your doctor advises it, by all means go even hundreds of miles
for such treatment as a means of preventing permanent paralysis and other
serious consequences of nerve injuries.
It will be apparent that you can do
much to help guard the health of your nervous system by observing commonsense
precautions to avoid accidents and injuries and by following suggestions made
in many pages of this book about maintaining general good health.
In addition,
you can best influence the nervous system, including the autonomic, to exercise
effective control over body functions by maintaining good mental health and by
making use of suggestions given in the next section of this book on coping with
the tension and stresses that all of us must expect to encounter.
