Moving Through the Pain: Exercise and Migraine
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Key Questions
- What are the difficulties of exercise for those who have frequent migraine attacks?
- Can exercise be both a trigger and preventive for migraine?
- How can exercise cause a headache or migraine attack?
- How can dehydration during exercise be avoided by those with migraine?
- Why should people with migraine not give up on exercise as a preventive?
- How does exercise affect the brain?
- How does exercise affect some common migraine comorbidities?
- How can you safely begin exercising with migraine?
- Is it safe or beneficial to push through a headache or migraine attack to exercise?
- What is a let-down headache?
Interview Notes
- Dr. Richard B. Lipton
- Do people with migraine get enough exercise?
- Aerobic Exercise for Reducing Migraine Burden: Mechanisms, Markers, and Models of Change Processes
- The association between migraine and physical exercise
- Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Migraine Reduce Migraine-Related Disability in People with Episodic and Chronic Migraine? A Phase 2b Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

Richard B. Lipton, MD
Professor of Neurology & Director of the Montefiore Headache Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
A noted authority on headache and migraine, Dr. Richard B. Lipton is director of the Montefiore Headache Center and the Edwin S. Lowe chair of neurology at Albert Einstein University in New York. Dr. Lipton is recognized internationally for his leadership in diagnosing, classifying, epidemiology, and treating headache disorders. A prolific researcher and writer, Dr. Lipton has published 11 books and more than 900 original articles and reviews. He is a recipient of the Medical Book Award from the British Medical Association for his textbook, Headache in Clinical Practice. Dr. Lipton is a former president of the American Headache Society (AHS). He is also an associate editor of Cephalalgia: An International Journal of Headache (the journal of the International Headache Society), and sits on the editorial boards of several journals, including Neurology. He is a five-time recipient of the Harold G. Wolff Lecture Award for excellence in research from the American Headache Society. Dr. Lipton is also a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and of epidemiology and population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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