Back pain is one of the most common health conditions worldwide, and according to the World Health Organization (WHO), low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide.

Back pain is not a disease, yet, it seems like there’s an epidemic of back pain worldwide.

Does your back hurt? Experts estimate that up to 80% of the population will experience back pain at some time in their lives, so that means you aren’t amongst the lucky 20%, yikes!

Back pain can be distressing, painful, stressful, and frustrating and can affect your life and even your work and income. Back pain results in more than 264 million lost workdays in one year—that’s two workdays for every full-time worker in the U.S. Moreover, health care costs related to back pain are over $12 billion per year, making it one of the most expensive conditions in the country.

Another billion-dollar industry – CBD, has been rapidly growing since the 2018 Farm Bill, which made hemp and its derivatives with no more than .3% THC federally legal for purchase and consumption.

Per the 2019 CBD Insider US CBD Consumer Report, 58,1% of CBD consumers use CBD for aches and discomfort. Can it help back pain too? While there’s no definite ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, certain aspects affect the way CBD interacts with your body and how it can affect the perception of pain.

What Are the Reasons for Back Pain?

Your spine is the central support structure of the body, so it usually has more workload than other parts of the body; thus, higher are the chances of things going wrong with your back than any other body part.

Anything can become the reason for your back pain ranging from moving the neighbor’s couch, bad posture or an underlying disease. 

According to Mayo Clinic, common causes of back pain include:

• Muscle or ligament strain
• Bulging or ruptured disks
• Arthritis
• Osteoporosis

There are two types of back pain – acute and chronic.

Acute back pain lasts for less than three months and is usually due to a specific injury or linked to a particular activity like lifting your neighbor’s couch. Usually, it resolves within days or weeks. Chronic pain, on the other hand, lasts for three months or longer. It significantly affects your work performance, physical endurance and can negatively affect your mental health. 

Because chronic back pain is usually due to a chronic illness, usually the symptoms don’t entirely go away. Even if you can’t cure back pain (which is impossible as back pain isn’t a disease itself rather than a symptom of other medical conditions), you can manage the discomfort by lifestyle choices, exercise, therapy, and natural solutions remedies. 

CBD and Back Pain

CBD is a famous product amongst wellness enthusiasts, and CBD-infused products, including topicals and oral solutions, have already appeared at all kinds of stores and are widely available online.

Although it’s a popular addition to millions of Americans’ routines, it’s been legally around not for long, and its effects on the human body and mind are still under research. 

For now, CBD is not a drug; it’s a natural supplement, which doesn’t cure any disease, except for Epidiolex, the only FDA-approved CBD drug designed to treat seizures associated with Lenox-Gastaut Syndrome.

What Are CBD’s Effects?

CBD delivers varying outcomes across consumers, so the exact results are challenging to estimate. 

Unlike its cousin cannabinoid THC – responsible for marijuana’s euphoric effects, CBD is not psychoactive, meaning it won’t cause any mind-altering symptoms or get you ‘high.’

Most commonly, people use CBD for overall wellness, and as mentioned above, more than half of consumers use it for pain.

CBD’s outcomes also significantly depend on the consumption method. Currently, there are three types of CBD products, these are:

• CBD oral products
• CBD topicals
• CBD vaporizers

CBD oral products are ingested sublingually or orally and work inside the body, while you can apply topicals directly to specific skin and body areas, such as the lower back. CBD vaporizers allow CBD inhalation through vape products.

How Does CBD Affect the Body? 

Cannabis plants aren’t the only ones in nature having natural cannabinoids. It turns out all animals and humans produce cannabinoids, called endocannabinoids, and have an Endocannabinoid System (ECS) helping to regulate numerous bodily functions, including pain. ECS plays a crucial role in homeostasis, so when something throws the body out of balance – like injury, pain, inflammation, the army of endocannabinoids start sending signals in the nervous system to help your body go back to balance.

Plant-based cannabinoids are very similar to endocannabinoids. When we consume CBD, it can also act as an endocannabinoid and interact with ECS receptors to help regulate different processes. 

The interaction could play a role in chronic pain, but its effects are still under research, and hopefully, further studies will reveal CBD’s role in pain regulation. Meanwhile, if you are searching for safe and effective CBD products on the market, take a look at our wide inventory. It includes a variety of products, including oral and topical CBD products you can try. 

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