Hi! I’m Dr. Jessica Ailani, board certified Neurologist and Headache Specialist in the Washington DC region, and I’ve partnered with AbbVie on this education to help other physicians treat their patients.

Migraine is a complex disease, that ebbs and flows and despite different treatment options, migraine care isn’t always optimized for the needs of your patients.

Sometimes a single approach is not enough, particularly for the most disabled migraine patients. So I ask you…what does a multimodal management approach mean to you?

Multimodal management integrates various modalities of migraine care:

• Pharmacological interventions
• Neuromodulatory devices
• Behavioral interventions

Migraine care modalities can be acute or preventive, used alone or layered, with lifestyle modifications at the core of migraine care.

Beyond recommending lifestyle modifications, a health care provider can do more to determine if their patient’s current treatment plan is optimized.

Patients with disabling migraine may need a more comprehensive treatment plan to meet a patient’s individualized treatment goals.

The multimodal migraine management includes a stepwise approach that considers a patient’s treatment goals, disease history, and disease burden.

When considering a multimodal approach, consider clinical evidence, the mechanism of action, patient comorbidities, and drug-drug interactions.

Multimodal management can be a rational approach to addressing the multifactorial etiology and burden of migraine.

The beauty of multimodal management lies in its holistic and individualized approach which can offer patients support in their pursuit of migraine freedom.