CBD: The New Anti-inflammatory, Better & Safer Than Ibuprofen
As some of you know, inflammation is the culprit behind many of the ailments we deal with every day. Arthritis, IBS, heart disease, and skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis are all due to inflammation.
But when most of us think about inflammation, we think muscle and joint pain. The kind we get from overworking our bodies from time to time. From weekend warriors to professional athletes, sore muscles and joint stiffness can often be debilitating and millions reach for NSAIDs such as aspirin and ibuprofen for relief.
However, modern science and many professional athletes are discovering that CBD has one of the most effective anti-inflammatories available, and are replacing those NSAIDs with a better, safer, solution to reducing their pain!
But science is not stopping with just CBD, Soon, we hope to see cannflavin A and cannflavin B, a flavonoid in cannabis, being introduced alongside CBD. These two flavonoids have been shown to be some 20-30 times more powerful than aspirin and ibuprofen and twice as much as prescription Hydrocortisone! ref:
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CBD in the management of difficult to treat pain.
Research shows that Chronic pain represents an emerging public health issue of massive proportions, particularly in view of aging populations in industrialized nations.
Use of Cannabidiol in Patients With Low Back Pain Caused by Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Spinal stenosis is a degenerative narrowing of the spinal canal with encroachment on the neural structures by surrounding bone and soft tissue.
This chronic low back condition can cause restrictions in mobility, impairment of daily activities, opioid dependence, anxiety, depression, and reduced quality of life.
Spinal stenosis can be treated through surgical and nonsurgical methods, but neither has proven consistently reliable.
Cannabidiol (CBD) has also been observed to have anxiolytic, anti-inflammatory, antiemetic, and antipsychotic behaviors. CBD may provide greater nonsurgical treatment options for the pain associated with spinal stenosis while minimizing the need for opioids.
An observational study was undertaken to assess the effects of CBD on patients suffering from chronic spinal stenosis.
Cannabidiol as a treatment for arthritis and joint pain.
CBD use was associated with improvements in pain (83%), physical function (66%), and sleep quality (66%).
Subgroup analysis by diagnosis type (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid, or other autoimmune arthritis) found improvements among groups for physical function (P=0.013), favoring the osteoarthritis group.
The overall cohort reported a 44% reduction in pain after CBD use (P<0.001). The osteoarthritis group had a greater percentage reduction (P=0.020) and point reduction (P<0.001) in pain compared to rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune arthritis.
Potential Role of Cannabidiol on Sports Recovery
Recently, the World Anti-Doping Agency has removed some products from their list of prohibited substances for athletes.
This is the case of cannabidiol (CBD), a phytocannabinoid clustered among the cannabinoids extracted from the Cannabis Sativa plant.
Today CBD use is not only extensive among athletes (Docter et al., 2020), but it has been shown to have specific properties that help to treat chronic pain, spasticity, mood and sleep disorders, immunodepression, inflammation, oxidant effects, and anxiety in clinical patients (McPartland et al., 2015;Whiting et al., 2015;Nichols and Kaplan, 2019;Pinto et al., 2020).
These effects could improve and accelerate recovery caused by a prolog or intense physical, physiological, and cognitive efforts as in sports (Higgins et al., 2017).