Welcome to “Migraine: Improving Care for Everyone,” featuring English subtitles. This video explores the broader implications of migraine care, emphasizing the value of resources provided by organizations like Migraine Canada and the importance of public and political advocacy. It calls on donors, policymakers, healthcare professionals, and the migraine community to unite in enhancing access to care and education. By highlighting the challenges in accessing neurologists and effective treatments, it underscores the critical need for improvement in migraine care and support across the healthcare spectrum.
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0:00 what could improve uh migraine care as a
0:02 scientist myself I believe knowledge is
0:05 power and so what I would strongly
0:07 suggest is family doctors and general
0:10 practitioners to uh look up migraine
0:12 Canada my attention was drawn toward the
0:15 migraine Canada website is a terrific
0:19 website I thought I knew a lot about
0:21 migraines and I learned a lot more when
0:23 I talked about this to my family doctor
0:25 they weren’t even aware of this resource
0:28 that’s available there’s just a lot lot
0:30 of information there are kinds of
0:32 treatments and medications through these
0:34 resources they can understand and see
0:37 what’s the recent literature what’s the
0:39 recent findings and just to empower them
0:42 so that they can help their patients on
0:44 the website of Migrant Canada you can
0:46 get a lot of informations and it’s also
0:48 you can know that these are true
0:51 informations and you can listen to
0:54 podcast it’s a good tool to find some
0:56 help as well I think that the more we
0:59 educate
1:00 not only the public but even our
1:02 government the more they’ll become aware
1:05 that migraine is a neurological disorder
1:07 that has a significant negative impact
1:10 on people’s
1:12 [Music]
1:21 lives do you have access to a
1:24 neurologist no no I don’t not right now
1:27 yes I do have access to a neurologist I
1:29 now have access to a neurologist and
1:31 that has completely changed my life it
1:33 took about 15 years to find a
1:36 neurologist specialized in migraine
1:38 disorder every time that I ask for one
1:41 they usually tell me that there is a
1:43 super long waiting list it was really my
1:45 neurologist who was able to give me my
1:48 magic cocktail that works most of the
1:50 time I think migraine Canada as a a
1:54 message to the society saying that as
1:57 other disease that we know much more
1:58 about it migraine
2:00 does exist and it’s painful and it’s
2:02 something to be to be considered
2:04 hopefully this will help more funding on
2:07 behalf of the government everyone
2:09 deserves to have access to the
2:11 appropriate care and also to Affordable
2:13 medication I think it’s important to
2:16 spread just general awareness it’s such
2:19 an invisible pain that you don’t really
2:22 get considered I think it’s important
2:24 people to uh in each Community to really
2:28 talk about it I think compassion would
2:30 be good also by by them sharing
2:32 information on on this this disease
2:35 because it’s very painful for people who
2:37 have it very painful
