The Six Most Common Mistakes in Migraine Management
Key Questions
- What are the most common barriers that prevent people from gaining better control of their migraine?
- What are the most common errors you see in acute migraine treatment, and what practical strategies do you recommend?
- What are common challenges in preventive treatment, and how can they be addressed?
- What underlying issues often go untreated and keep migraine in a chronic state?
- How do medication overuse and neck pain feed into chronic migraine?
- What risks are associated with an overavoidant or hypervigilant approach to migraine triggers?
- How can patients and clinicians collaborate to identify and address invisible barriers?
- What are the key components of an effective long-term migraine management plan?
Deborah Friedman, MD, MPH, FAAN, FAHS
Neuro-Ophthalmologist & Headache Specialist
Yellow Rose Headache & Neuro-Ophthalmology
Dr. Deborah Friedman is a neurologist specializing in headache medicine and neuro-ophthalmology. She practices at Yellow Rose Headache and Neuro-Ophthalmology in Dallas.
Dr. Friedman was the founding director of the Headache and Facial Pain Program and the Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She is board certified in neurology and headache medicine. Additionally, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Headache Society (AHS), the American Neurological Association, and the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS).
She served on the board of directors for the AHS, is the president-elect for the Southern Headache Society, is a past president of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS), and is on the steering committee for the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) Treatment Trial, which represents the largest prospectively analyzed cohort of untreated patients with IIH. She has published over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 27 book chapters. Her key interests are intracranial pressure disorders, migraine, and cluster headache.
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