|
We Update
Daily!
Custom Search
Chris S. Kenoyer. Owner &
MMJ Patient,
Medical Activist,
Online Patients Advocate,
Online News Journalist
My
Personal Medical Bio
Follow Us Now On Twitter
@MedicalMMJMan
Email Us Here
olpwebs@yahoo.com
Or
Email Us Securely Here
olpwebs@Safe-mail.net
TV
News Or Press Contact Info
The Website Audio &
Multimedia
Content!
Is Best
Viewed With Internet Explorer Browser!
********************************
Advertise Here
On OnlinePot
Rates As Low As $50 a Year
24/7 365 Days A Year
Of Sales!
********************************
OnlinePot Free Newsletter
The
Latest In MMJ News
Legal
Disclaimer
Guest Book
To translate text or
a web page go
to:
Language Tools
Google
Translations
Website
Submissions & News
Reports
Are Always
Gladly
Accepted Here.
Is CBD? A Possible
Cure For
Breast Cancer?
And All The Other
Many
Forms & Types
Of Cancer?
Learn
More About " CBD" Here
Cancer Cured:
A Cannabis Story
Website Navigational Links
*******************************************
Main
Start Page 2
*******************************************
Parody's
Cartoons US
Government Grown Pot,
Term Papers,
School
Reports, & Thesis's On
Marijuana & Cannabis
*******************************************
Amsterdam
A to Z
*******************************************
Canadian
Marijuana
Websites
*******************************************
Church's
& Pot Cannabis
*******************************************
Co-Ops, Clinics, Dispensary's
******************************************
Marijuana
Doctors & Clinics
*******************************************
Pot
Cooking Recipes
*******************************************
Drug
Testing A To Z
*******************************************
Pot Games
*******************************************
100's
Of Marijuana Grow Guides
*******************************************
Latest
Marijuana News Reports
*******************************************
Hash A- Z
*******************************************
Cannabis
Legal Info, Drug
Lawyers, State, Federal Laws,
State
& Supreme Court Rulings
*******************************************
POW's
Of The MMJ
War!
*******************************************
Other
Marijuana Websites
Websites
Link
Exchange!
*******************************************
Medical
Marijuana
Studies,
Research
Report's, Medical
Cannabis Clinic Study's
*******************************************
Avoiding Online MOM
Scammers
Newly
Re-Updated Info!
*******************************************
The Politics Of
Contraband
Medical Marijuana In The Mail?
*******************************************
The
Hall Of Shame Section
The Online MOM Scammers
*******************************************
Online MOM's Providers Ads
*******************************************
Politicians
&
Voters Rights
*******************************************
Medical
Marijuana, Strains
*******************************************
The OG
Marijuana Strain Guide
*******************************************
800+
FAQ Growing Questions
*******************************************
Marijuana & Pot Songs
Just Updated!
*******************************************
Patients
Spiritual
Guidance,
Free Online
Crisis Help Center
*******************************************
Online
Marijuana Seed Banks
*******************************************
Maximum Security
Section
Just Updated!
Hushmail.com Security Alert!
*******************************************
Traveling
Tips, Guides, B & B's
*******************************************
Vaporizers
A To Z
*******************************************
Online Pot Video's & Movies
*******************************************
Visit Our Sister Websites!
www.OLPInternetRadio.com
The
Reefer Madness
Teaching Museum.org
Listen Right Here Online!
To Original 1930-1950's
Reefer Madness Propaganda
Radio
Shows And Programs
Before TV
There Were "Radio Stars"
Maine
Patients Coalition.org
The
Reefer Madness Teaching Museum.org
1999-2011 Copyright ©
All Rights Reserved.
No part of this site maybe used or
reproduced in whole or in part
without
the written consent of the
Copyright
Owner Chris Kenoyer
www.onlinepot.org
OnlinePot assumes no legal
liability
for
any products, or
information or
news
posted, services
offered,
Or
any contests or give away's offered.
| |
Parkinson's disease patients who have tried
marijuana say the drug helped relieve their symptoms,
Nearly half of Parkinson's disease patients who
have
tried marijuana say the drug helped relieve
their symptoms, according to a
survey of
patients with the degenerative neurological
disorder.
Return
Back To Main Medical Reports Page
Dr. Evzin Ruzicka, an attending neurologist at Charles University in Prague in
the Czech Republic, reported the findings here at the Movement Disorders
Society's Seventh International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement
Disorders. Ruzicka is also a consultant at the Prague Movement Disorders Center.
"It's difficult to directly study the medical effects of cannabis in the
Czech Republic, where we conducted our research, because of its illegal
status," Ruzicka told Reuters Health. "Therefore, we had to conduct
anonymous surveys. To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess the
effect of cannabis on Parkinson's disease, and our findings suggest it may
alleviate some symptoms."
Ruzicka and his colleagues chose to investigate marijuana's effects on
Parkinson's disease after hearing from several patients that they had tried the
drug and it had helped them.
The investigators asked all patients who were treated for Parkinson's disease at
their center to complete a questionnaire that asked about cannabis use and about
several Parkinson's disease symptoms, including overall symptoms; tremor while
at rest; bradykinesia, or slow movement; muscle rigidity; and dyskinesias, or
involuntary movements. Dyskinesias are caused by levodopa, the mainstay
medication in Parkinson's treatment.
Among the 630 patients to whom the investigators sent questionnaires, 339 (54%)
returned them. The responders' average age was about 66, and they had had
Parkinson's disease for an average of roughly 9 years. Among the responders, 25%
reported that they had used cannabis. Most had used it orally, either as fresh
or dried leaves.
Within this group, 39 patients (46%) reported that their Parkinson's disease
symptoms in general were relieved after they started using cannabis. In terms of
specific symptoms, 26 (31%) reported an improvement in tremor while at rest, and
38 (45%) experienced a relief of bradykinesia. Relief of muscle rigidity was
reported by 32 (38%), and 12 (14%) said they had an improvement in levodopa-induced
dyskinesias.
The respondents reported that the improvement in symptoms occurred an average of
1.7 months after they had started using cannabis. Patients who used it for at
least three months were more likely to experience symptom relief than those with
shorter experience, the investigators reported.
This delay between the beginning of cannabis use and the relief of symptoms made
it unlikely that the respondents were having a placebo effect, Ruzicka said. A
placebo effect can occur when the individual taking a treatment experiences a
benefit even if the "treatment," such as a sugar pill, contains no
active ingredients.
They found no relationship between the length of cannabis use and the effect on
involuntary movements. However, daily marijuana users reported more improvement
in their dyskinesias than those using it less often.
The investigators speculated that the effect of cannabis on Parkinson's disease
symptoms may be due to interaction among cannabis, certain brain receptors that
respond to cannabis and endogenous cannabinoids or cannabis-like substances
within the body.
He and colleagues plan to investigate a relationship between cannabis use and
relief of Parkinson's disease symptoms by collaborating in further studies with
investigators in the United Kingdom, Ruzicka told Reuters Health.
Source: Reuters Health
Author: Paula Moyer
Return
Back To Main Medical Page
|
Button Ad
Spaces 
