Author: Neurology Live

“I can say that the results were pretty good because more than 50% of patients reported, subjectively of course, that they gained satisfactory [improvement with] using cannabis on the dystonia itself. More than 85% of those patients reported improvement in the pain related to dystonia—which is pretty amazing—and also, around 60% of those 23 patients reported improvement in their quality of life during the use of cannabis.” Saar Anis, MD, neurologist and movement disorders specialist at Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Center in Israel outlined the small, retrospective study, shedding light on its findings, which were presented at The International Parkinson and…