Nearly 39 million people suffer from migraines, according to the American Migraine Foundation, making it the third most common illness in the world. Yet stigma and misunderstandings around the impact of this chronic condition mean that most employees aren’t getting the treatment or support they need.
“We have to help educate people that this isn’t a headache, it actually is a chronic disease,” says Neil Parikh, chief medical officer of Thirty Madison, a telemedicine platform. “It shows up in people’s lives on an almost daily basis — it’s a huge loss of productivity and the leading cause of days lost to disability in the workplace.”
