Dr. Lisa Gfrerer to speak on migraine surgery at the NY Headache Club meeting on January 25
Migraine surgery is controversial. I would not consider it until most of the less invasive options have been tried. In my latest book, I give migraine surgery a score of 3, on a 1 to 10 scale. This rating may not be fair because clinical trials suggest that it can be very effective for some patients.
So, when is a referral to a surgeon warranted? Dr. Lisa Gfrerer is highly qualified to address this topic. She will speak on January 25th at a dinner of the NY Headache Club, an informal gathering of headache specialists who practice in the greater NYC area. If you are a headache specialist and would like to attend, send me a message. The meeting is not open to the lay public.
Here is Dr. Lisa Gfrerer’s short bio.
Dr. Gfrerer is an Assistant Professor in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM). She received her MD degree at the Medical School of Vienna prior to completing a PhD in Genetics at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. She graduated from the Harvard Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency Program and completed the Advanced Peripheral Nerve and Microsurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Clinically, her focus is peripheral nerve surgery including headache surgery, treatment of nerve pain and compression, breast reinnervation, as well as advanced nerve reconstruction for restoration of motor and sensory function after an iatrogenic and accidental injury. She has built a multi-institutional and multidisciplinary research program for headache surgery, breast/chest reinnervation, as well as functional nerve disorders and nerve pain. As an affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) she has further focused on innovation and device development to enhance peripheral nerve regeneration.
I found this blog by Googling cold hands migraine. My hands are always cold and my body temperature is generally cold as well and I’ve suffered for migraines for 15 years. I knew magnesium could help but I’ve never heard it so perfectly explain how to do it and why. I never knew that if you don’t take enough magnesium supplement that your kidneys will just excrete it and you won’t get the benefit. I generally respond well to Maxalt but I’ve become dependent on it over the years. I generally wake up in the morning with a migraine that will not go away unless I take Maxalt, however, I just took two pills of chelated magnesium glycinate with my breakfast and feel much better, although my hands are still cold.