Jason Busse

@CanJPain The ‘apparent’ growth in chronic pain prevalence- unlikely to reflect actual increasing prevalence.

🏆 Congratulations to @JasonWBusse and colleagues, recipients of the 2025 Ronald Melzack – Canadian Journal of Pain Paper of the Year Award! The award-winning study highlights the growing prevalence of chronic pain among Canadian veterans. 🇨🇦 Read more👇 doi.org/10.1080/247405…

New review out on migraine prophylaxis. Monoclonal antibodies are promising, but trials require replication. Evidence for botulinum toxin, propranolol, topiramate, and valproate was largely at high risk of bias: acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

@tylerblack32 We also found large troubling associations with cannabis use and academic achievement jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

⚡️Cannabis is bad for kids!⚡️ 463,396 adolescents screened for cannabis use, followed to age 25. Past-year use → 2x psychotic disorders, 2x for bipolar, 1.3x for depression, 1.2 for anxiety. The cannabis-youth psychiatric harm signal just got a lot harder to wave away. /1

@northwoods1980 @GregLehman bmj.com/content/388/bm…

Are trigger point injections actually better than sham? Is anyone still using steroids with an anesthetic? What is the most up-to-date thinking concerning trigger point injections in general?

Can access to chiropractic care reduce use of opioids for chronic spine pain? Observational data suggests yes, RCTs needed to confirm: journals.lww.com/painrpts/fullt…

New Consensus Statement on medical cannabis competencies: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Important start to ensuring clinicians are prepared to support patients who use cannabis.

@maryg1race These could be contributing factors. Once symptom exaggeration is suspected, ideal for clinicians to explore further - but establishing trust and a safe environment is critical for such discussions.

@JasonWBusse Could cultural or socioeconomic factors explain the higher symptom exaggeration rates among women in IMEs?

🚨Our systematic review found that almost 50% of women and a third of men exaggerate their symptoms when undergoing Independent Medical Evaluations. Exaggeration ≠ malingering. Most attendees presented with chronic pain or mild traumatic brain injury: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

New trial (nature.com/articles/s4159…) confirms the findings of our 2021 review (bmj.com/content/374/bm…) that found non-inhaled cannabis products may provide important pain relief to a minority (10-15%) of people living with chronic back pain. Long term effects remain uncertain.

💉💊⚕️Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre is looking for participants for a qualitative study exploring experiences on opioid tapering to manage chronic non-cancer pain. Sign-up for this opportunity on Pain Connect today: tinyurl.com/2pmt6x9z

Canadian Veterans living with chronic pain, your voice matters. 🗣️ Help shape better care & support by completing McMaster University’s survey today. 🔗 rsjh.ca/redcap/surveys… 📩 veteransurvey@mcmaster.ca #VeteransCanada #ChronicPainAwareness #VeteranResearch

Department of Anesthesia Weekly Announcement - August 11th, 2025 - mailchi.mp/593781fd9f61/d…

@PainChampions A thoughtful and important article.

While prescription opioids represent a legitimate crisis, they aren’t the problem. The problem is an overutilized and heavy biomedical focus to pain as well as the limited availability of effective treatment options for people living with #chronicpain. healthcentral.com/pain-managemen…

Welcome to our Research Spotlight featuring Dr. @JasonWBusse! Learn more about what led him to his current career, and how his research has led to medical and policy developments. Find the interview here: instagram.com/reel/DLpq4casn…

We found moderate certainty evidence that preserving the intercostal brachial nerve during breast cancer surgery probably protects against chronic post-surgical pain: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@Squashedhedgi @verenabee Studies have not found an increase in all-cause mortality with ME/CFS, but there is a substantial increase in mortality from suicide: thelancet.com/journals/lance…

@JasonWBusse @verenabee People die because they cant swallow or their guts pack up. What do you think ?

Our analysis of 906,404 tweets regarding ME/CFS identified frustration with labelling the condition as psychosocial and a desire for identification of physical causation and biomedical treatments.

@verenabee Always happy to review evidence that I may have missed.

@JasonWBusse You do read the wrong studies. There is plenty of very worthy evidence of somatic pathomechanisms. And "we" were open to the psychosomatic theory for decades, with catastrophic results (even death). Because PEM usually is dismissed by those psychosomatic theories.

@SimenBjelland We have no data on causation - only several tragic cases of MAID requested by PLWME who had lost hope for recovery.

@NemoEntropy True for current - the study explored trends over the past 14 years.

@JasonWBusse we're right here, you could've just asked us

@verenabee Don't know if patients are wrong or right. Studies to date have not found a defined biological cause. It remains possible that a future study might, but we should be open to either possibility. We are always limited by the evidence that we have.

@JasonWBusse So? It is not surprising. What is your conclusion? That the patients are wrong or right? Also is it the frustration with the label or is it not much more the anger and desperation of being treated wrongly with horrifying consequences?(Maeve Boothby O'Neill is not the only one)