Category: migraine surgery

  The trigger point mechanism for migraine headaches has been revolutionary in helping some patients achieve partial or complete relief of their headaches. It is based on identifying one or more of the four peripheral triggers points, frontal (supraorbital/supratrochlear nerves), occipital (greater occipital nerves), temporal (zygomaticotemporal nerve) and nasal (septum/turbinates), for injectable Botox or surgical Read More…

One theory and approach to frontal migraine headaches has been the release of branches of the trigeminal nerve due to muscular and bony impingement. Whether pharmacologically treated by Botox injections or surgically treated by removal of constricting muscle and bone, dramatic and lasting improvements have been seen in properly selected patients. One such treated area Read More…

One of the causes of migraine headaches that emanate in the forehead region is compression of the supraorbital nerve. This trigger point cause of migraines is due to the squeezing or pinching of this nerve by the enveloping muscles. Relief can be obtained through either Botox injections or surgical removal of the muscles (myectomy) around Read More…

Surgery for migraine headaches is a new and effective option for patients who do not respond well to current headache medications and other neurological treatments. The key to successful surgical relief is rigorous patient selection. Not every patient with chronic headaches is a surgical candidate as there are numerous overlapping headache diagnoses. So it is Read More…

  Migraines are a common and frequently disabling headache condition that can be drug-resistant or responds very poorly to them. Even in those that do respond, there are side effects to all drugs that for some are problematic. Surgical techniques for migraines have been developed that deactivate migraine trigger sites. For some patients, these surgical Read More…

  The prevalence of migraine headaches, specifically those that are disabling and life-altering, is not rare. When traditional neurologic approaches, such as drugs destined to prevent or abort a migraine, fail to provide relief through a centrally-mediated mechanism then peripheral therapy should be considered. A lot of new information is forthcoming that supports the peripheral Read More…

  The treatment of migraine headaches has undergone new insights in the past decade through the use of surgical decompression of specific peripheral nerves in the head and neck. Through either the use of injectable Botox or muscle resection of the supraorbital or occipital nerves as they exit out from their cranial bone sites, significant Read More…

  Migraines are difficult treatment problems that are resistant to many standard drug therapies. Few migraine sufferers have one treatment approach that works consistently. Migraines that have a single or predominant trigger site, while is just a subset of migraine sufferers, have been undergoing novel non-surgical (Botox) and surgical (nerve decompression) treatments in some centers Read More…