Chronic Migraine Optimization
18 Expert Sessions
Chronic migraine can feel overwhelming, especially when attacks become more frequent or treatments stop working. This pathway brings together expert interviews focused on preventing chronic migraine, improving treatment response, and finding strategies when symptoms become difficult to control. The sessions progress from foundational treatment principles to advanced options used by leading headache specialists.
Understanding the Migraine Brain
These sessions explain how migraine becomes chronic and the biological and behavioral factors that can drive increasing attack frequency.
Preventing & Reversing Chronic Migraine – Part I
Richard B. Lipton, MD (2025)
Understanding how episodic migraine progresses to chronic migraine and what can stop that progression.
Preventing & Reversing Chronic Migraine – Part II
Richard B. Lipton, MD (2025)
Evidence-based strategies that can help reverse chronic migraine and restore better migraine control.
Common Traps of Chronic Migraine
Deborah Friedman, MD, MPH, FAAN, FAHS (2020)
Hidden patterns and habits that can perpetuate chronic migraine over time.
The Six Most Common Mistakes in Migraine Management
Deborah Friedman, MD, MPH, FAAN, FAHS (2026)
Common treatment pitfalls that can unintentionally worsen migraine frequency or limit treatment success.
Inflammation & Chronic Migraine
Gretchen Tietjen, MD (2024)
How inflammation and systemic health factors may influence chronic migraine severity.
Stabilizing and Controlling Chronic Migraine
These sessions focus on treatment strategies used by headache specialists to reduce migraine frequency and regain control.
Controlling Chronic Migraine
Jessica Ailani, MD, FAHS, FAAN (2024)
Practical treatment approaches headache specialists use to stabilize frequent and disabling migraine attacks.
How to Get Back From Chronic to Episodic Migraine
Stephanie J. Nahas, MD, MSEd, FAHS, FAAN (2023)
Clinical strategies that may help reduce attack frequency and move from chronic back to episodic migraine.
Latest Strategies for Chronic Migraine Control
Carrie Dougherty, MD, FAHS (2021)
Modern preventive and treatment options used by headache specialists.
Controlling Unresponsive Chronic Migraine
David Dodick, MD (2019)
Advanced treatment approaches used when migraine remains difficult to control.
When Treatments Don’t Work
For people with treatment-resistant migraine, these sessions explore additional options and decision points.
When Nothing Works: Treatment-Resistant Chronic Migraine
Amaal Starling, MD (2022)
What headache specialists evaluate when standard migraine treatments fail to deliver relief.
What to Do if Your CGRP Treatment Doesn’t Help
Peter McAllister, MD, FAAN (2023)
What to consider if CGRP medications are ineffective or stop working.
Treatment Spotlight: Triptans and Rebound
Richard B. Lipton, MD (2018)
Understanding medication overuse and how triptans can both help and complicate migraine management.
Botox: Separating Fact from Fiction
Andrew Blumenfeld, MD (2019)
What Botox actually does in chronic migraine prevention and who may benefit.
Advanced and Complementary Approaches
These sessions explore additional tools that may help support people living with chronic migraine.
Neuromodulation Devices: Proven Drug-Free Treatment for Migraine
Fred Cohen, MD (2024)
How neuromodulation devices work and when they may help people with chronic migraine.
Can Pain Reprocessing Therapy Offer Migraine Relief?
Alan Gordon, LCSW (2025)
Exploring how pain reprocessing therapy may help retrain the brain’s pain response.
Brain Retraining for Chronic Pain
Bethany Ranes, PhD (2023)
How neuroplasticity-based approaches may help calm a hypersensitive migraine brain.
Body Pain, Allodynia and Fibromyalgia
Gretchen Tietjen, MD (2018)
Why many people with migraine also experience widespread pain and heightened sensitivity.
Living As Well As Possible with Chronic Pain
Jenni Grover Prokopy (2017)
Practical ways to improve quality of life while living with persistent migraine pain.
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