Welcome to the New York Headache Center

Dr. Mauskop’s latest book, The End of Migraines: 150 Ways to Stop Your Pain. has remained one of the best-selling books on migraines on Amazon.com since its publication in early 2021. The second expanded edition was published in October 2022.

2023 is the 25th year Dr. Mauskop has been selected by his peers as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor.

If you suffer from headaches, we can help. You may have already seen neurologists, ophthalmologists, ENT doctors, chiropractors, and other specialists. We offer a unique approach, which can be called integrative medicine. It is a combination of traditional medicine and methods variously categorized as functional, complementary or alternative therapies. Many of these complementary therapies and Botox injections help our patients achieve and maintain relief without the need for conventional medications which are more likely to cause serious side effects. We also offer transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which also has minimal risk of side effects.

We treat children and adults with chronic migraines, tension-type, cluster, and other types of headaches, post-concussion syndrome, cranial neuralgias, and facial pain.

Our first step is always to try to discover possible underlying causes of your headaches and pain. We usually order specialized blood tests and always review your lifestyle, the foods you eat, your genetic heritage, other medical conditions, your profession, your living environment, and other factors that can contribute to chronic headaches. The triggers that can set off a headache are as unique as the people experiencing them. Our treatment is always highly individualized.

If you are in severe pain, we try to provide urgent care during our office hours so that you don’t have to go to the emergency room. The emergency room is not a good place for someone with a severe migraine. It is noisy, has bright lights, and has long waiting times. The treatments that are offered include narcotics, acetaminophen, and other ineffective drugs. If you are considering going to an ER during office hours, try calling us and one of our providers will try to see you. We can administer nerve blocks, give you an injection of sumatriptan, or intravenous treatment, such as magnesium, ketorolac (Toradol), metoclopramide (Reglan), Ondansetron (Zofran), dihydroergotamine (DHE-45), dexamethasone (Decadron), Vyepti, and other. We do not stock any opioid (narcotic) drugs. If necessary, it is easy to reach us after hours. Our cell phones are mentioned on the answering machine. In a true emergency, we urge you to go to the nearest emergency room.

We also treat children with headaches. In children, we particularly emphasize safer, non-drug approaches. These may include biofeedback or meditation, magnesium, CoQ10, riboflavin, feverfew, other supplements, and Botox injections. The youngest child we’ve treated with Botox was 6 years old. The oldest was 100. The procedure to administer Botox for chronic migraine is very brief and causes minimal discomfort. This video shows me performing Botox injections on one of our patients (with her written consent): http://youtu.be/kwuEcgkBikk

To make our services as accessible as possible our providers accept most commercial insurance plans, except for Medicaid, Medicare, no-fault, workers’ compensation, and ACA plans.

The headache clinic is led by Dr. Alexander Mauskop, a board-certified neurologist and a headache specialist with over 30 years of experience in treating headaches and pain. In the early 1990s, he was one of the first neurologists to start using Botox for the treatment of headaches. Since then, he has treated thousands of patients and has trained over 300 doctors from across the United States and around the world in the use of Botox. He participated in research studies that led to the FDA approval of Botox for the treatment of chronic migraines and many studies of different migraine medications. He has published many articles on  magnesium, herbal supplements, and other topics. The first of his four books on headaches, The Headache Alternative: A Neurologist’s Guide to Drug-Free Relief is available as a free download. His fourth and most comprehensive book, The End of Migraines: 150 Ways to Stop Your Pain is available on Amazon.

Dr. Mauskop’s main research interest has been the role of alternative therapies, particularly magnesium in relieving migraine, cluster, and other types of headaches. He and his colleagues were the first to study intravenous magnesium infusion for the treatment of migraine and cluster headaches. Their many publications and lectures have made this therapy a part of the standard approach to the treatment of migraine headaches in many emergency rooms and doctor offices.

He has given lectures at institutions such as Cornell, Harvard, Columbia, NYU and Dartmouth Medical Schools, Mayo and Cleveland Clinics in the US as well as leading hospitals in Europe.

You can keep up with the latest news in the field of headaches by subscribing to his blog. Since 2007, he has written over 900 blog posts. There are close to 3,000 comments that you may also find useful.

Drs. Sara Crystal and Britany Klenofsky are neurologists with additional subspecialty training in headache medicine. Dr. Crystal was selected for the New York Times Magazine supplement, SuperDoctors in 2018 and 2019. Our nurse practitioners, Richelle Cassell and Marcella Caprara are very knowledgeable and compassionate headache specialists. We all work as a team, discussing challenging cases, updating each other on new developments in the field of headaches, and providing continuity of care when one of us is away.

Headache sufferers from all over the US and the world travel to our Center. We’ve treated patients from Angola, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, Venezuela, and other countries.

Welcome to the New York Headache Center

Dr. Mauskop’s latest book, The End of Migraines: 150 Ways to Stop Your Pain. has remained one of the best-selling books on migraines on Amazon.com since its publication in early 2021. The second expanded edition was published in October 2022.

2023 is the 25th year Dr. Mauskop has been selected by his peers as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor.

If you suffer from headaches, we can help. You may have already seen neurologists, ophthalmologists, ENT doctors, chiropractors, and other specialists. We offer a unique approach, which can be called integrative medicine. It is a combination of traditional medicine and methods variously categorized as functional, complementary or alternative therapies. Many of these complementary therapies and Botox injections help our patients achieve and maintain relief without the need for conventional medications which are more likely to cause serious side effects. We also offer transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which also has minimal risk of side effects.

We treat children and adults with chronic migraines, tension-type, cluster, and other types of headaches, post-concussion syndrome, cranial neuralgias, and facial pain.

Our first step is always to try to discover possible underlying causes of your headaches and pain. We usually order specialized blood tests and always review your lifestyle, the foods you eat, your genetic heritage, other medical conditions, your profession, your living environment, and other factors that can contribute to chronic headaches. The triggers that can set off a headache are as unique as the people experiencing them. Our treatment is always highly individualized.

If you are in severe pain, we try to provide urgent care during our office hours so that you don’t have to go to the emergency room. The emergency room is not a good place for someone with a severe migraine. It is noisy, has bright lights, and has long waiting times. The treatments that are offered include narcotics, acetaminophen, and other ineffective drugs. If you are considering going to an ER during office hours, try calling us and one of our providers will try to see you. We can administer nerve blocks, give you an injection of sumatriptan, or intravenous treatment, such as magnesium, ketorolac (Toradol), metoclopramide (Reglan), Ondansetron (Zofran), dihydroergotamine (DHE-45), dexamethasone (Decadron), Vyepti, and other. We do not stock any opioid (narcotic) drugs. If necessary, it is easy to reach us after hours. Our cell phones are mentioned on the answering machine. In a true emergency, we urge you to go to the nearest emergency room.

We also treat children with headaches. In children, we particularly emphasize safer, non-drug approaches. These may include biofeedback or meditation, magnesium, CoQ10, riboflavin, feverfew, other supplements, and Botox injections. The youngest child we’ve treated with Botox was 6 years old. The oldest was 100. The procedure to administer Botox for chronic migraine is very brief and causes minimal discomfort. This video shows me performing Botox injections on one of our patients (with her written consent): http://youtu.be/kwuEcgkBikk

To make our services as accessible as possible our providers accept most commercial insurance plans, except for Medicaid, Medicare, no-fault, workers’ compensation, and ACA plans.

The headache clinic is led by Dr. Alexander Mauskop, a board-certified neurologist and a headache specialist with over 30 years of experience in treating headaches and pain. In the early 1990s, he was one of the first neurologists to start using Botox for the treatment of headaches. Since then, he has treated thousands of patients and has trained over 300 doctors from across the United States and around the world in the use of Botox. He participated in research studies that led to the FDA approval of Botox for the treatment of chronic migraines and many studies of different migraine medications. He has published many articles on  magnesium, herbal supplements, and other topics. The first of his four books on headaches, The Headache Alternative: A Neurologist’s Guide to Drug-Free Relief is available as a free download. His fourth and most comprehensive book, The End of Migraines: 150 Ways to Stop Your Pain is available on Amazon.

Dr. Mauskop’s main research interest has been the role of alternative therapies, particularly magnesium in relieving migraine, cluster, and other types of headaches. He and his colleagues were the first to study intravenous magnesium infusion for the treatment of migraine and cluster headaches. Their many publications and lectures have made this therapy a part of the standard approach to the treatment of migraine headaches in many emergency rooms and doctor offices.

He has given lectures at institutions such as Cornell, Harvard, Columbia, NYU and Dartmouth Medical Schools, Mayo and Cleveland Clinics in the US as well as leading hospitals in Europe.

You can keep up with the latest news in the field of headaches by subscribing to his blog. Since 2007, he has written over 900 blog posts. There are close to 3,000 comments that you may also find useful.

Drs. Sara Crystal and Britany Klenofsky are neurologists with additional subspecialty training in headache medicine. Dr. Crystal was selected for the New York Times Magazine supplement, SuperDoctors in 2018 and 2019. Our nurse practitioners, Richelle Cassell and Marcella Caprara are very knowledgeable and compassionate headache specialists. We all work as a team, discussing challenging cases, updating each other on new developments in the field of headaches, and providing continuity of care when one of us is away.

Headache sufferers from all over the US and the world travel to our Center. We’ve treated patients from Angola, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, Venezuela, and other countries.

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