Podcast: Headache Surgery

In this episode of Back to Health, Lisa Gfrerer, M.D., Ph.D. discusses what patients should know about headache surgery. She reviews the conditions that causes nerve compression, leading to most headaches and migraines in patients. She discusses how the minimally invasive procedure helps to find and remove tissues that constrict the nerves to help release them, leading to improvements of symptoms and success rates for qualified surgical candidates.

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