14 TALKBACK PAIN MANAGEMENT
Using medical cannabis for neck Jessica is a 51-year-old mum with a large family and a physically active lifestyle who became affected by chronic pain in her neck, resulting from a skiing accident in 2017.
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ON THIS occasion, I was going much faster than I was comfortable with, and while taking a corner, I hit some ice and had a wipe-out fall. I remember at the time my neck flicking backwards and really smacking my head on the ice. I lay there for a minute terrified that I had broken something. I was literally seeing stars and my ears were ringing. In the ridiculous way that you do when you trip up, I pulled myself up as soon as I could, desperate to find out if I was still in one piece and I could move everything. I was helped to the side of the slope and spent 10 minutes collecting myself before
Jessica: Getting your treatment right is a balancing act
TALKBACK l SPRING 2021
At the time I didn’t know it, but this was nerve pain that would eventually wake me every night, bang on 2am! attempting to limp down the mountain. That was the end of my skiing for the week and my neck was stiff and painful, but by the time I returned to the UK I felt pretty much normal and carried on with life
