Welcome to AIHS
We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) national professional organization working for the benefit of people suffering from intractable headache, neck, and orofacial pain that is not responding to conventional treatment. Our purpose is to raise awareness, promote, and advance interventional headache science through better education, patient care and research support.
What We Offer
Hands-on training through workshops and lectures to professional organization of physicians, dentists, health care professionals and scientists working for the benefit of people suffering from intractable headache, neck, and orofacial pain unresponsive to conventional treatment.
Headache Board
AIHS offers the American Board of Headache Medicine® (ABHM) to qualified physicians to enable them to document knowledge, training and skills in this new subspeciality of pain management. Visit the board's website for upcoming examinations.
AIHS Online Webinars
Did you know?
For many patients, treatment of pain is inadequate not just because of uncertain diagnoses and societal stigma, but also because of shortcomings in the availability of effective treatments and inadequate patient and clinician knowledge about the best ways to manage pain. “2011 Institute of Medicine's (IOM) "Relieving Pain in America"
This is a quantum leap in our understanding of migraine pathophysiology and the development of new treatment options. Pain physicians are interested in this pursuit and keen to learn about and adopt these new medications and novel approaches to migraine and other headache disorders. However, despite the enthusiasm over these new medications and advanced techniques there are limited teaching resources.
As such, learning about various methodologies and gaining experience with specific medications and techniques for head and neck blocks are obvious goals for the beginner and experienced alike. Additionally, it is important to also obtain a good knowledge base of the anatomy, physiology and pathology behind various headache syndromes, as well as to acquire practical tools and techniques for avoiding common mistakes. These key gaps/educational needs are addressed in our AIHS events and workshops.
Congratulations AIHS members Dr. Meredith Barad and Dr. Narayan Kissoon!
Percutaneous Interventional Strategies for Migraine Prevention: A Systematic Review and Practice Guideline
Latest Additions
Publications
- Why pain physicians should consider becoming headache specialists: bridging the gap in patient care
- Percutaneous Interventional Strategies for Migraine Prevention: A Systematic Review and Practice Guideline
- Evaluation of Galcanezumab for the Prevention of Episodic Migraine The EVOLVE-1 Randomized Clinical Trial
- Review of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (gammaCore): efficacy, safety, potential impact on comorbidities, and economic burden for episodic and chronic cluster headache
- Transcutaneous Supraorbital Nerve Stimulation (t-SNS) with the Cefaly® Device for Migraine Prevention: A Review of the Available Data
Innovations/Guidelines
- Consensus Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache From a Multisociety, International Working Group
- Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation May Treat Migraine in Patients with COVID-19, According to Neurologist Stephen D. Silberstein, M.D.
- Chronification of Migraine
- Efficacy and tolerability of erenumab in patients with episodic migraine in whom two-to-four previous preventive treatments were unsuccessful: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3b study
- Fremanezumab for preventive treatment of migraine Functional status on headache-free days
WHY JOIN AIHS TODAY?
The American Interventional Headache Society™ (AIHS) is the first and only organization of its kind that is dedicated to promoting and advancing education, research, and innovations in multimodal interventional management for head, neck, and orofacial pain.
Benefits of Becoming a Member
Access To Annals of Headache Medicine Journal
Annals of Headache Medicine Journal contains peer-reviewed scientific and clinical studies to advance the understanding and clinical application of multimodal interventional therapies for head, neck, and orofacial pain.
Committees
You will have the opportunity to influence the future of AIHS and the shape the field of interventional headache through participation on various AIHS Committees.
