Introducing a New Peer-Reviewed Study from Our Clinical Director

We are pleased to share that our Clinical Director, Dr. Susan Hutchinson, has played a key authorship role in a new publication titled “Understanding migraine throughout a woman’s life and the role of calcitonin gene-related peptide: A narrative review.”

Read the full journal here:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17455057251376878

What the Study Covers

• The paper addresses how migraine episodes evolve across key reproductive life phases in women: puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause and menopause.
• It examines how hormonal shifts (especially estrogen changes) interact with migraine risk and pattern.
• It highlights the need for clinical care that takes reproductive health and life-stage into account when managing migraine.

Why It Matters for Our Patients

• Many people at Haven come in with 4+ migraine episodes per month and are navigating life transitions (for example, perimenopause or pregnancy). The study gives fresh evidence that these transitions matter in care planning.
• The research reinforces our commitment to patient-centric care by considering your full life context—not just isolated migraine episodes.
• It supports our outcomes-first approach: using data and life-stage insights to improve your good-days count with family, hobbies and work.

How We’ll Use This at Haven

• We’ll update our intake and assessment workflows to better capture reproductive milestones, hormonal treatments, cycle patterns and life-stage transitions.
• We’ll refresh patient education materials and our team training so that every migraine plan is calibrated for where you are in life, not just your attack frequency.
• We’ll invite you to revisit your plan if you are entering (or in) a phase like pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause or major hormonal change—so we can optimize timing, preventive strategies and trigger-management accordingly.

What You Can Do

• If you’re experiencing changes in your migraine pattern around menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum or menopause, bring that to your next visit.
• Use your migraine diary (including our SMS-based software diary) to note timings relative to hormonal events or life-stage transitions.
• Ask us how your preventive and acute therapies link with your life-stage — we can adjust timing, dose or strategy with newer research in mind.

Join Us in Advancing Care

At Haven, we believe migraine care should evolve with you. This new study underpins our belief that your reproductive health, life stage and migraine pattern are deeply connected. With this insight, our team is better prepared to partner with you for more good days ahead.

Book your next appointment here: https://www.havenheadache.com/booking/join