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The ALblation Technique for Treating Migraine Headache

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This work aims at describing a technique “The ALblation technique” for treating migraine headache. This technique describes radiofrequency ablation for supraorbital, supratrochlear, lesser occipital and greater occipital nerves bilaterally for treating migraine headache. This is a novel procedure that was not described before.

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Author published some articles on radiofrequency ablation for the pericranial nerves for treating different types of headache with consistent positive outcomes. Success of this procedure depends on identifying the appropriate nerves to treat the headache and associated neuralgia.

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Correspondence to Alaa Abd-Elsayed.

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The author declares no conflict of interest related to this work. Dr. Abd-Elsayed is a consultant for Medtronic, StimWave and Avanos.

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Abd-Elsayed, A. The ALblation Technique for Treating Migraine Headache. Curr Pain Headache Rep 24, 29 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-020-00861-z

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