I have a lot of back pain from playing rugby semi-professionally in our teens and early 20s.
Back then I thought the exercises I was doing were relaxing for our body, but now it seems like long term damage was inevitable.
On top of it, the coaches and sporting figures in rugby are harshly misleading in how they represent the cons, like you see with football and head injuries. What happened was slow and small, but the damage to our back was permanent. I get numbness going down our back into our neck on a weekly basis, but I don’t actually notice it as much if I’m sitting in a chair with great back and leg support. I’ll admit, there are some days when the pain is so harsh that I reach for our bottles of ibuprofen and acetaminophen to calm the pain. A friend of mine who’s an avid cannabis user urged me to try CBD for our back pain. Despite our worry and fear, I decided to try CBD. The person behind the counter at the CBD store told myself and others that I could buy pure CBD or full spectrum CBD. He said the full spectrum CBD has other cannabinoids and terpenes that add to the qualitative effects, but I didn’t actually know what that meant. I tried the pure CBD isolate and noticed a bit of pain relief, however it was the full spectrum CBD that worked the best for our back pain. Even if they cost more money, I would much rather take the full spectrum CBD products if I want repeatable benefits that don’t reduce from batch to batch.