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cannabis patient care | vol. 3 no. 1 cannapatientcare.com 8 data focus Chronic Pain: Data Snapshot B Y M E G A N L' H E U R E U X A N D T E T R A G R A M C HRONIC PAIN can be a symptom for many patients with various illnesses. On their website, Johns Hopkins Med- icine defines chronic pain as long standing pain that persists beyond the usual recovery period or occurs along with a chronic health condition. Otha Smith's Tetragram mobile app allows users to anonymously track cannabis prod- ucts as well as the conditions or symptoms they are using it for. In their most recent collection of data, users reported mus- cle pain, joint paint, nerve pain, muscle spasms, injury pain, headache, migraine, abdominal pain, chronic back pain, surgi- cal pain, and more. Here, Tetragam allows us to share an over- view of some of the top four areas patients reported on related to pain to see what type of products they are finding useful to help manage their pain, how they are consuming it, and more. This data relates to patients that reported muscle pain, joint pain, nerve pain, and injury pain. Some data highlights from this set include: • Inhalation is still the most popular consumption meth- od among consumers with an average of 83.35% across all four symptoms reported here. • The average consumer is still not completely satisfied or experiencing symptom relief with an average of 35.58% of users responding with a score of 5 for the overall rating in these four symptom categories. Muscle Pain Patients who selected muscle pain as their primary symptom equaled 1729 sessions. Of those sessions, 32.79 reported using THC, 17.13 reported THCA, 8 reported CBD, 4.83 reported THCV, 2.9 reported CBDA, and 0.13 reported CBDV in their product. PRODUCT TYPE FOR PATIENTS REPORTING MUSCLE PAIN CONSUMPTION REPORTING 6.4% Bong 5.6% Other 70.7% *Included 1.7% Resin 21.9% Flower 1.1% Shatter 2.4% Wax 0.1% Hash 2% Other SPECIFIC CONSUMPTION METHOD FOR PATIENTS REPORTING MUSCLE PAIN 52.2% *Included 6.3% Pipe 11.6% Vap Pen 4.1% Gummy 9% Bong 3.4% Other 1.6% Other 8.3% Joint 2% Vaporizer 1.3% Tincture CONSUMPTION METHOD FOR PATIENTS REPORTING MUSCLE PAIN 86.2% Inhaling 12.1% Orally 1.8% Topical OVERALL RATING FOR PATIENTS REPORTING MUSCLE PAIN 34.7% Score of 5 1.9% Score of 1 32.6% Score of 4 13.3% Score of 0 13.8% Score of 3 3.6% Score of 2 *Included means the patient did not report a specific consumption method *Data supplied by Tetragram as of March 23, 2022 *Included means the patient did not report a specific product type