Back Pain & Medical Cannabis Treatments

Back pain is a common complaint among many people in America and has significantly affected the people way of living and causing some to miss going to work in the cases where the problem is severe. Back pain refers to the pain felt in the upper, lower back including along the spine. Back pain can be caused by trauma, organic disease, skin conditions and more.  A car accident can cause back pain, muscle strain in the case where you lift heavy objects, a sports injury and also sometimes it can be due to one bending awkwardly.

Back pain treatment

Some drugs are used to treat back pains as they have been tested and approved to be the best drugs in relieving back pains. Such drugs include the opioid narcotics such as the Vicodin and Percocet. Others include the analgesics such as the ibuprofen and acetaminophen. Some of these drugs such as the opiates and narcotics are very powerful in reducing the back pain but have severe side effects such that if you regularly consume them, you may become addicted to the drugs. Analgesics are not addictive, but then again they don’t adequately relief the pack pains completely. Also, analgesics have long term effects such as stomach bleeding, liver, and kidney damage.

For those who don’t prefer to take these drugs, the only option they are given is to take bed rest which in return slows down the recovery process.

Medical marijuana in treating back pain.

The benefit of using medical marijuana to treat the back pain is that the drugs don’t have the side effects found in the drugs listed above hence making it safe to use for back pain treatment. Also, the tetrahydrocannabidiol found in marijuana is used as a pain reliever for cancer patients and does not have any toxic effect at all. Therefore we can conclude that medical marijuana is an excellent remedy for back pain as it does not contain harmful side effects as compared to other traditional medicines used for back pains.

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