[What benefits does the preventive treatment of migraine have?]

The preventive treatment of migraine is under-used. Moreover, treatment compliance and persistence rates are low. Yet, it is crucial to be able to control the frequency, intensity and duration of the attacks of migraine, which enables patients to resort to painkillers less often. All this plays a key role in improving the associated quality of life and disability. It is important to have a clear idea of the goals of preventive treatment, as well as the indications for starting it, its ideal duration and compliance. Enhancing and completing the knowledge we have about preventive treatment will probably improve its prescription and provide tools that allow an increase in patient compliance to be achieved.