In some patients the pain of migraine originates in the extracranial cranial arteries. This article describes the location and a logical examination sequence of the vessels most frequently involved in migraine pain.

In this article, evidence is presented to suggested that the extracranial arteries are the source of the pain in some migraine sufferers.

Read this blog to find out how TRPV1, CGRP and SP in scalp arteries have an affect on chronic migraines.