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Chronic pain and medicinal cannabis
If you need more information relating to chronic pain, HealthCert Education offers this short online course.
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This medicinal cannabis course focuses on using medicinal cannabis for managing chronic pain. The course discusses the use of medicinal cannabis as an emerging option for clinicians to reduce and alleviate difficult-to-treat, chronic, neuropathic pain. It includes analyses of the endocannabinoid system and the diverse, multimodal mechanisms of cannabinoid-induced analgesia. THC and CBD are an excellent additive treatment to concurrent conventional pain management for many chronic pain types associated with a range of diseases such as fibromyalgia, traumatic injury, and multiple sclerosis. For patients suffering from neuropathic pain, cannabinoids may be used successfully as an adjunctive, opioid-sparing, or ultimately a replacement therapy for managing their pain. The course also discusses a management plan’s necessary considerations such as determining dosages and accounting for safety considerations, and applies these protocols to a chronic pain case study.