Will CBD Change Modern Pain Management?

Today, CBD is used to treat a myriad of conditions and its effects are reflected in both controlled scientific studies and personal accounts. While not a cure for any specific condition, it promotes healing from within through neurological interactions rather than synthetic pharmaceutical painkillers.

With the information we now have about this treatment, many are asking whether CBD is the future of pain management.

What’s The Problem With The Current Pain Management?

In 2005, the FDA released a warning regarding NSAID usage, revealing shocking and dangerous risks from heart attack to stroke. A decade later, they doubled down on these warnings.

In the United States alone, 40% of seniors fill at least one NSAID prescription per year, are far more likely to use over-the-counter NSAIDs, and tend to take them very regularly. What results is over 40,000 hospitalizations and 3,300 deaths per year — all in the name of pain management.

Compared to typical treatments for these conditions which call for prescription level NSAIDs, CBD is incredibly gentle. It has very few side effects both long and short-term.

CBD usage, in lieu or in tandem with prescription NSAIDs, effectively treats chronic physical pain and inflammation
Has fewer, less severe, and no long-term side effects
Does not prompt a user to build up a tolerance, eliminating the need for dosage increases further down the line

What Makes CBD So Effective?

So, how exactly does CBD treatment hit all the high points on this wide variety of conditions?

The answer lies within our own bodies.

Interacting with the natural processes of our own bodies, CBD offers a boost to alleviate pain and kickstart healing. Cannabinoids, similar to the compounds of CBD itself, are actually naturally occurring in the body, known as endocannabinoids.

Receptors in our brain help translate signals from endocannabinoids into actions. The key comes from plant-based cannabinoids triggering the very same receptors. Cannabinoid 1 receptor, or CB1R, found primarily in the brain helps regulate: