Thanks to the surge in virtual healthcare use during the pandemic, more people used telemedicine for the first time. Now, a new study conducted by the American Migraine Foundation (AMF) indicates that people overwhelmingly found virtual healthcare beneficial for the treatment of headaches.

The AMF study surveyed patients who received virtual healthcare for their headaches. They received headache care in telemedicine encounters with either headache specialists, general neurologists, primary care providers, headache nurse practitioners, or headache nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 Results showed that 62.1% of 638 survey respondents rated telemedicine for headache care as "very good," and 20.7% rated it as "good." Furthermore, 89.8% of respondents indicated that they would prefer to keep using virtual healthcare for their headache care.

Although there were no outcomes measured or objective assessments of the quality of care, these results are yet more strong support for the power and potential of virtual healthcare to deliver care that people find both convenient and helpful.