HeadWise Podcast

Have you downloaded the NHF’s audio podcast, HeadWise™? Don’t miss Dr. Lindsay Weitzel’s informative discussions with headache experts on the latest treatment, research, lifestyle recommendations, and personal stories about living with migraine disease and headache disorders.

HeadWise can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Our video version of HeadWise is available on our website, YouTube, and our Facebook page. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.

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Headache Education and Our Providers

May 2020, Episode 55: Headache Education and Our Providers – Dr. Matthew Robbins, Neurology Residency Program Director at Weill Cornell Medicine talks to Dr. Lindsay Weitzel about the ideal changes he hopes to see in headache education. Dr. Weitzel asks…

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Physical Therapy and Headache Disorders

April 2020, Episode 54: What can physical therapy do for our headache disorder? Our second episode with Mark Greco, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Manager of the Diamond Headache Inpatient Program, discusses physical therapy options for those of us with…

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Resilience and Coping With Migraine Disorders

April 2020, Episode 53: Did you know that Resilience is a concept that has been shown to strongly benefit our health? Resilience can be taught and is so important in migraine and chronic pain. It is particularly applicable at this…

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Treatment Access During a Pandemic

April 2020, Episode 52: Are you experiencing and interruption in your Botox treatment due to COVID-19 restrictions? Are you wondering what to do if you do not have access to trigger point injections or an infusion center in case your…

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COVID-19 and Migraine & Headache Disorders

March 2020, Episode 51: Dr. Vincent Martin and Dr. Lindsay Weitzel tackle these important questions regarding COVID-19 and migraine & headache disorders: Does the presence of migraine disease make us more prone to coronavirus or other viral illness? Why do…

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Physical Therapy for Headache Disorders

March 2020, Episode 50: The first of our two-part series on PT and headache disorders. Here Dr. Lindsay Weitzel discusses the role of PT in controlling migraine, cervicogenic headache, and dizziness/vestibular troubles with Mark Greco, Physical Therapist and Manager of…

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Caffeine and Migraine

March 2020, Episode 49: Drs. Rachel Colman and Lindsay Weitzel discuss why caffeine can lead to more migraine in some people, and why sometimes it does help people in the acute headache phase. She also gives us tips on decreasing…

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Advocacy and Headache on the Hill

March 2020, Episode 48: What has been accomplished at Headache on the Hill 2020? Tune in for an update on progress from Headache on the Hill Advocacy with Katie MacDonald (Executive Director of Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy) and Dr….

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Childhood Syndromes and Migraine Disease

February 2020, Episode 47: Did you know that there are certain syndromes in childhood that are related to the future development of migraine disease? And that mothers with migraine disease are more likely to have a baby with colic? Dr….

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Botox and Chronic Migraine Treatment

February 2020, Episode 46: Do you get Botox for migraine? Are you thinking about getting it? Dr. Andrew Blumenfeld answers Dr. Lindsay Weitzel’s questions about who should get Botox, how effective it is, how it works, insurance coverage etc.

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Cooking with the Dizzy Cook

February 2020, Episode 45: Alicia Wolf is a person navigating her life with vestibular migraine. She learned that dietary changes helped her manage her disease. This led her to become a self-taught chef and publish a cookbook that would be…

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New and Emerging Migraine Therapies, Pt. 2

January 2020, Episode 44: Dr. Timothy Smith and Dr. Lindsay Weitzel compare and contrast three oral gepants, an IV monoclonal antibody, two combination therapies, and an anti-inflammatory agent – all expected to be available for the treatment of migraine in…

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