Telemedicine is well suited for migraine and headache treatment. In this post, Dr. Torphy discusses how telemedicine can improve access to headache and migraine specialists and why telemedicine has been increasing in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

‍There has been a great deal of excitement in the migraine community in the past few years about new medications which target something called CGRP. Calcitonin gene-related peptide, or CGRP, is a substance that we all have in our bodies. During a migraine attack, it has been shown that levels of CGRP are elevated, and after a migraine attack ends, the levels of CGRP return to “normal.” This post will help you to better understand the role of CGRP in migraine.