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How Medical Marijuana Helps in Spinal Cord Injuries?
How Medical Marijuana Helps in Spinal Cord Injuries?
Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal Cord Injuries
What if you met with a serious accident? And in that accident an unthinkable thing happens to you. The thought of not being able to move or walk again floating in your mind seems horrible. Even the doctor’s assurance doesn't convince you, as you were diagnosed with a spinal cord injury because of your car accident.
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a catastrophic experience in a person’s life as it impacts the daily normal life routine. It does hamper your overall quality of life especially if the injury turns into paralysis. Approximately 450,000 U.S citizens suffer from the problem of spinal cord injury.
This problem was once considered to be fatal as the person had to limit his whole life either to a bed or on a wheelchair. Traditional medications that were used had severe side effects and the problem of addiction. But all thanks to the legalization of cannabis and the modern technology that made people enjoy a happier life.
Medical marijuana and CBD have proven to be effective in managing and healing the symptoms related to spinal cord injuries. More and more people are applying for a medical cannabis card to benefit from the therapeutic potential of cannabis and to get relief from SCI.
Spinal Cord Injury And Its Types
Spinal Cord Injury And Its Types
A spinal cord injury is a damage to the discs of the spinal cord, ligaments, vertebrae or the spinal cord itself. This damage often occurs due to the devastating blow at the back that either crushes or fractures or bursts or dislocates or compresses one or more than one vertebrae.
The common cause of getting a spinal cord injury is a distressing accident such as a car accident or violence with someone or due to sports activity or a diving incidence. Inflammation, disc degeneration, arthritis and even cancer are the non-traumatic causes of spinal cord injury. Complete and Incomplete are the two types of spinal cord injury.
Complete spinal cord injury is one that leads to the inability of controlling the body movements and the loss of sensory feelings below the wounded area.
Incomplete spinal cord injury is the one that causes the loss of motor functions and some of sensory feelings below the wounded area.
Spinal cord damage often leads to paralysis at times. Tetraplegia or Quadriplegia paralysis impacts a person’s legs, trunk, hands, arms and pelvic organs. Whereas paraplegia paralysis happens in either all or some parts of legs, torso and pelvic organs.
Medical Cannabis Treatment
Medical Cannabis Treatment
CBD, the non-psychoactive compound in cannabis helps in relieving SCI symptoms like spasticity and pain and also improves motor functioning. Whereas the psychoactive compound THC has been proven in providing effective relief from incontinence, insomnia, bladder control and chronic pain, which are the common symptoms of SCI.
CBD has healing properties and helps the spinal cord in the acute phase of the injury by stimulating the neuroprotective response. It also activates the CB1 and CB2 receptors that promote a speedy recovery of the injury. CBD oil helps in easing the symptoms of SCI like muscle spasms, inflammation, anxiety and sleep disorders.
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