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Join Seth and Dr. Laurie as they share research, tips and patient stories to help improve your quality of life with arthritis.

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Join Seth and Dr. Laurie as they share research, tips and patient stories to help improve your quality of life with arthritis.

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Join Seth and Dr. Laurie as they share research, tips and patient stories to help improve your quality of life with arthritis.

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Before her spinal cord injury, Leigh Ann was very active and spontaneous. She took salsa lessons, roller bladed 50 miles a week, and loved jet skiing and wake boarding. She traveled several times a year, and enjoyed socializing with friends. When she injured her spinal cord, Leigh Ann was only 28 and had just received her degree in massage therapy. The way in which she was injured is somewhat unusual. My boyfriend came up behind me unexpectedly, tried to pick me up in a joking manner, and unfortunately, he slipped, and dropped me, Leigh Ann recalled. I only dropped from about two feet off the ground, but [because of] the way my body was angled, it broke my vertebrae, and left me paralyzed from the waist down.

Before this happened, Leigh Ann understood little about the dangers and complications of such injuries. I thought having a spinal cord injury meant that you couldnt walk, she said. I didnt realize it involved bladder and bowel complications, and you would experience bone loss, muscle fatigue, and severe back pain.

Living with the injury has caused major life changes for Leigh Ann. No longer able to participate in her favorite outdoor activities, she spends much of her time indoors, watching movies and relaxing. She tires more easily, and her daily routine has changed dramatically. Incorporating a bladder program and bowel management into the scheme of getting ready in the morning has really lengthened the process, said Leigh Ann. While it used to take me about 25 minutes to get ready in the morning, now it takes [up to] an hour and forty-five minutes.

Rehabilitation helped Leigh Ann adjust to living with a spinal cord injury. My rehab program was custom-designed for my specific needs, she explained. Every exercise I did, every transfer, was designed to tackle every obstacle. I didnt feel like I was part of a cookie-cutter program. Leigh Ann has also participated in many studies at the Kessler Research Center, which has improved her quality of life. She had chronic shoulder pain, a common problem for many users of manual wheelchairs. In one study, researchers looked at whether the angle at which she was pushing her wheelchair was directly associated with the pain she was experiencing. The research I performed made me more aware of how to push my wheelchair, she said. Kessler Research Center has a variety of studies that inpatients, outpatients, and members of the fitness gym can be involved in.
Inspired by her experience, Leigh Ann now works as a research assistant for Kessler Foundations research center. Everyday, I get to help people improve their quality of life. Although Leigh Ann is a mentor to other patients, she has noticed an increase in her own quality of life, as well. Now, she has a much more optimistic outlook on life, and refuses to sweat the small stuff. Adapt and overcome, she said. Understand that your life isnt over, it has just changed.
For more information about Kessler Foundation, go to http://www.KesslerFoundation.org

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Sleep Apnea Research found at www.norml.com
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One preclinical study is cited in the scientific literature investigating the role of cannabinoids on sleep-related apnea. Writing in the June 2002 issue of the journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, researchers at the University of Illinois (at Chicago) Department of Medicine reported “potent suppression” of sleep-related apnea in rats administered either exogenous or endogenous cannabinoids.[1] Investigators reported that doses of delta-9-THC and the endocannabinoid oleamide each stabilized respiration during sleep, and blocked serotonin-induced exacerbation of sleep apnea in a statistically significant manner. No follow up investigations have taken place assessing the use of cannabinoids to treat this indication. However, several recent preclinical and clinical trials have reported on the use of THC, natural cannabis extracts, and endocannabinoids to induce sleep[2,3] and/or improve sleep quality.[4]

Article full text at:

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7016

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For patients and their physicians, let this report serve as a primer for those who are considering using or recommending medicinal cannabis. For others, let this report serve as an introduction to the broad range of emerging clinical applications for cannabis and its various compounds.

Paul Armentano
Deputy Director
NORML | NORML Foundation
Washington, DC
January 24, 2008

* The author would like to acknowledge Drs. Dale Gieringer, Gregory Carter, Steven Karch, and Mitch Earleywine, as well as NORML interns John Lucy, Christopher Rasmussen, and Rita Bowles, for providing research assistance for this report. The NORML Foundation would also like to acknowledge Dale Gieringer, Paul Kuhn, and Richard Wolfe for their financial contributions toward the publication of this report.

** Important and timely publications such as this are only made possible when concerned citizens become involved with NORML. For more information on joining NORML or making a donation, please visit: http://www.norml.org/join. Tax deductible donations in support of NORML’s public education campaigns should be made payable to the NORML Foundation.

http://norml.com/index.cfm?Group_ID=7002

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Prohibition:

“Prohibition…goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” — Abraham Lincoln December 1840

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