Of course, no one in the stroke world knows about this unless you tell your doctors. With this your doctor should have the legal ability to prescribe this since nothing else works for spasticity. But what the hell do I know?
http://www.neurology.org/content/82/12/1083.full
The appropriate stuff for us to know:
Results and recommendations: Clinicians might offer
oral cannabis extract for spasticity symptoms and pain (excluding
central neuropathic pain) (Level
A). Clinicians might offer tetrahydrocannabinol
for spasticity symptoms and pain (excluding central neuropathic pain)
(Level
B). Clinicians should counsel patients that
these agents are probably ineffective for objective??? spasticity
(short-term)/tremor
(Level B) and possibly effective for spasticity
and pain (long-term) (Level C). Clinicians might offer Sativex
oromucosal
cannabinoid spray (nabiximols) for spasticity
symptoms, pain, and urinary frequency (Level B). Clinicians should
counsel patients
that these agents are probably ineffective for
objective spasticity/urinary incontinence (Level B). Clinicians might
choose
not to offer these agents for tremor (Level C).
Clinicians might counsel patients that magnetic therapy is probably
effective
for fatigue and probably ineffective for
depression (Level B); fish oil is probably ineffective for relapses,
disability,
fatigue, MRI lesions, and quality of life (QOL)
(Level B); ginkgo biloba is ineffective for cognition (Level A) and
possibly
effective for fatigue (Level C); reflexology is
possibly effective for paresthesia (Level C); Cari Loder regimen is
possibly
ineffective for disability, symptoms,
depression, and fatigue (Level C); and bee sting therapy is possibly
ineffective for
relapses, disability, fatigue, lesion
burden/volume, and health-related QOL (Level C). Cannabinoids may cause
adverse effects.
Clinicians should exercise caution regarding
standardized vs nonstandardized cannabis extracts and overall CAM
quality control/nonregulation.
Safety/efficacy of other CAM/CAM interaction
with MS disease-modifying therapies is unknown.
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Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.
What this blog is for:
My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.
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