• Referred Pain
• Rheumatic & Inflammatory Diseases
• Soft Tissue Pain
• Somatic Pain
• Total Pain
• Visceral Pain

Pain is an “alarm bell” for disease. It is the symptom that announces that all is not right with the body.  It is the most common reason that people seek medical assistance, whether due to accident or illness.

Treating the root cause is always preferable. However, pain is often a complex and vexing problem to treat because it has many causes, some of which are poorly understood from a medical standpoint. It also does not feel the same for everyone and describing the feeling can sometimes be a challenging exercise.

There are no truly effective medicines for certain types of pain, with relief often coming at the expense of debilitating side-effects – most people are aware of the “Opioid Epidemic”. So the search for new and better pain-relievers, perhaps the oldest form of medicine, continues unabated.

Fortunately, medical cannabis can help to provide relief.

The nervous system is largely balanced by the ECS as are all the other systems in the body. The wonderful components in the cannabis plant regulate pain-controlling circuits throughout the body that are damaged or imbalanced and reduces inflammation which is a big contributor to pain. It also helps regulate other underlying conditions that are associated with your pain. You can look forward to an improved quality of life as well as reduced dependence on prescription medications like opioids. Today, chronic pain affects more people than cancer, heart disease and diabetes combined. Chronic pain is one of the most common reasons adults seek medical care in the United States.

Cannabis in all its varieties provides a calming embrace and reprieve from pain, controlling it throughout the day and night.

• Aching and soreness
• Burning sensations
• Muscle stiffness and spasms
• Lethargy
• Mood changes
• Loss of appetiteWeakness
• Sleep

Inflammation and cannabis

“Inflammation is at the root of practically all known chronic health conditions.”

Inflammation is a normal response by our immune system when an infection or injury occurs but when the body systems are out of balance it can also become an abnormal over-response of the body leading to inflammatory disease. This abnormal over-response can show up as an Autoimmune Disease or as chronic inflammation from soft tissue, nerve or joint damage. There are several conditions in which patients have pain due to inflammation in various parts of the body. The Endocannabinoid System plays a protective roll in regulating the inflammatory response preventing overwhelming and imbalanced pro-inflammatory responses to harmful triggers. Thankfully, using medical cannabis, many patients can experience wonderful relief in lieu of using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), steroids, and opioids that all can have separate long-term and well-known severe side effects. Cannabis use is not devoid of risk, but the reported short-term adverse effects are mild and temporary.

Some of the common signs and symptoms that develop during chronic inflammation are listed below.

• Body pain, arthralgia, myalgia.
• Chronic fatigue and insomnia.
• Depression, anxiety and mood disorders.
• Gastrointestinal complications like constipation, diarrhea, and acid reflux.
• Weight gain or weight loss.
• Frequent infections.