> “I used to think that disability travels with pain, and it’s only when the pain gets severe that people are impaired. That’s not only false, but we have treatments to do something about it,” says Richard Lipton, a neurologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.
He's saying that he used to just view the pain of migraines as a disability, but now realizes that there are other components to migraines besides pain that cause disability (such as brain fog, emotional instability, blindness, etc)
Right- even though I was able to figure that bit out on second or third reading, it threw me enough that the second clause didn't truly make sense. Also, the subjects of "That's not only false" and "to do something about it" are _different_. So my train of thought kept derailing.
Am I the only one unable to grok this statement?