There is evidence showing that marijuana can help relieve chronic pain related to cancer, HIV and MS, as well as other conditions. In this video, pain management expert Devi Nampiaparampil, MD, discusses how marijuana can relieve some types of pain.
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There is a lot of evidence that marijuana can help with chronic pain, we see help the most with cancer related pain or conditions like HIV and AIDS related pains. It can also help in look spasticity which is basically we have rely tight muscles that move abnormally, so that usually happens in multiple sclerosis.
So there is a lot of research on that right now and there is some new evidence that it might help with other type of condition for pain.
Devi Nampiaparampil, MD is assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Anesthesiology at NYU School of Medicine. She served as chief of Interventional Pain Management at the Department of Veterans Affairs in New York.
