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Where Does Cannabis Fit Within Physical Therapy Scope of Practice? \n\n\n\n What is a Cannabinoid? \n\n\n\n How Can You Educate Your Patients About Cannabis? \n\n\n\n What does the research tell us? \n\n\n\n What laws and legal issues do PT\u2019s need to consider?\n\n\n\nJeff Konin and Jim Farris are physical therapists who specialize in cannabis education and research and collaborated to create their own company called\xa0PHD 420.\n\n\n\nTo understand the basics of cannabis, Jim broke down what a cannabinoid is from the cannabis plant and each of its strands (THC, CBD, etc.).\n\n\n\nTherapists should understand the availability of cannabis for patients at the federal and state levels. While some states have passed legal use either medicinally or adult use, it is still illegal federally.\n\n\n\nRegulations to conduct studies using cannabis continue to be federally run which minimizes the amount of research available. Cannabis needs to be pulled from a schedule 1 drug for it to be studied.\n\n\n\nConditions that have shown benefits from cannabis include pain, multiple sclerosis, cancer, post traumatic stress syndrome, HIV/AIDS, neurodegenerative diseases, fibromyalgia, migraines, sleep conditions and epilepsy.\n\n\n\nKey takeaways are to look at the research (i.e. PubMed) to learn more about cannabis and understand your state practice act when educating healthcare providers and patients.\n\n\n\nQUOTES\n\n\n\n\u201cThere is something out there and the patients aren\u2019t waiting for us to find the science. They\u2019re finding solutions.\u201d \u2013 JEFF\n\n\n\n\u201cIt is crazy what people think about the plant versus what the plant can actually do and what it provides. There is a stigma.\u201d \u2013 JIM\n\n\n\nPARTING SHOT\n\n\n\n\u201cTry to help get rid of the stigma of cannabis... Don\u2019t be afraid to get into it and ask.\u201d \u2013 JIM\n\n\n\n\u201cLook for the donut, not the whole.\u201d \u2013 JEFF