Quoted: UW plastic surgeon Dr. Ahmed Afifi, assistant professor of surgery, performs a migraine relief surgery that’s fairly new, and wanted to know how it was working for his patients. So, he went to Facebook.
He searched some support groups and migraine relief pages, and turned six months of patient posts into data. When he analyzed the results, they surprised him.
“81 percent of the patients after migraine surgery are saying that they got better after the surgery,” said Afifi. “And what’s amazing about that is when you compare … to the results from the big scientific articles that have been published, these articles are reporting a success rate of 79 percent, 82 percent, 83 percent.”