How Long Have You Been Treating Migraine Patients with Botox?

How Long Have You Been Treating Migraine Patients with Botox? (0:34)

Botox has been used by doctors off label to treat chronic migraine for 10 years, says Emily Rubenstein Engel, MD, of the Dalessio Headache Center at Scripps Clinic, but it first became FDA-approved in 2010.

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[MUSIC] I have been doing it for approximately ten years. Before I was FDA approved I was only able to treat, maybe, three to five patients a year, because the insurance companies, really hesitated on covering it. Now, after the FDA approval I'm treating three to five a day [MUSIC].

Emily Rubenstein Engel, MD

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