What Causes Muscle Spasms?
Are you wondering if medical marijuana for muscle spasms is an effective treatment? To get a complete understanding of medical marijuana’s medicinal benefits for muscle spasms, let us first understand what causes muscle spasms in the first place.
Muscle spasms, also known as involuntary hypertonicity, can afflict anyone regardless of their level of athletic activity. Muscle Spasms are caused when muscle tissue suddenly and involuntarily contract. These symptoms can last anywhere from a couple of seconds to a few minutes.
Spasms can be caused by muscle fatigue, dehydration, poor blood circulation, or even just age. They can also occur if you exercise in really heated temperatures or don’t stretch enough before physical activity.
List Of Possible Causes For Muscle Cramps & Spasms
- Poor blood circulation
- Excess weight
- Prescription drug side effects
- Age
- Insufficient stretching before physical activity
- Muscle fatigue
- Exercising in heated temperatures
- Hormone imbalance or pregnancy
- Dehydration
- Electrolyte imbalances in potassium, magnesium, and calcium
What Are The Symptoms?
Muscle spasms symptoms usually depend on which muscle is involved and what’s causing the spasm. If you have a skeletal muscle spasm, you’ll experience acute onset pain and your muscle may bulge underneath the skin. These spasms usually resolve within seconds and usually require stretching. Muscle fasciculations (or twitches) are when a few muscle fibers in a localized area contract repeatedly for a short time. They are usually caused by stress, anxiety, caffeine, or can be a symptom of neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis.
Medical Marijuana, Can It Help With Spasms?
The link between weed and muscle spasms has been studied mostly by the MS community to see how MS can be treated by marijuana. Muscle spasms can be triggered by inflammation, which marijuana can help reduce through marijuana cannabinoids such as THC. Studies have also shown that the cannabinoids extracted from medical marijuana can treat neuropathic pain from muscle spasms in multiple sclerosis patients.
While marijuana is an optional treatment, muscle spasms are usually treated with pain relievers, anti-inflammatory drugs, or muscle relaxers. However, these drugs may have more side effects than medical marijuana. Muscle spasm sufferers have found that medical cannabis helps ease the symptoms of muscle spasms without negative side effects.
Studies have shown that medical cannabis is effective in treating muscle spasms regardless of whether medical cannabis is ingested or inhaled. However, because different strains of medical marijuana have different levels of THC and CBD, the effectiveness of each strain of medical marijuana in treating multiple sclerosis differs between each medical marijuana strain.
Best Medical Marijuana Strains For Muscle Spasm Treatment & Relaxation
Some of the best medical marijuana strains for treating muscle spasms are hybrid strains of medical marijuana and Sativa-dominant strains of medical marijuana. White Widow is a popular hybrid marijuana strain that treats stress, anxiety, and pain, which makes it a perfect cannabis strain to treat muscle spasms and calm the nervous system. Other hybrid marijuana strains that help treat muscle spasms are ACDC cannabis, Canna-Tsu cannabis, and Chemdawg 4 cannabis.
High-CBD Medical Marijuana Strains
- Charlotte’s Web (high-CBD)
- ACDC (high-CBD)
- Canna-Tsu (high-CBD)
- Ringo’s Gift (high-CBD)
- Harlequin (high-CBD)
High – THC Medical Marijuana Strains
- Godfather OG (high-THC)
- ChemDog (high-THC)
- Strawberry Banana (high-THC)
- Emperor Cookie Dough (high-THC)
- Super Glue (high-THC)
Best Sativa, Indica & Hybrid Cannabis Strains For Muscle Spasms
Sativa-dominant marijuana strains that help treat muscle spasms include Amnesia cannabis, Great White Shark cannabis, Charlotte’s Web cannabis, Sweet Diesel cannabis, and Jamaican Dream cannabis. Although hybrid marijuana and Sativa-dominant marijuana strains are usually the most effective marijuana strains to treat muscle spasms, there are a few Indica marijuana strains that help treat muscle spasms as well. Mendocino Purps cannabis and the Redwood Kush cannabis both have anti-inflammatory and relaxing properties which help calm the nervous system and treat muscle spasms.
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