Angular $state.go {reload: true} shouldn't reinitialize the abstract father controller

1. Update your ui-router to newer version (0.2.14 at least)
2. Change $state.go call to something like this $state.go("main.users",{},{reload: "main.users"})

Since ui-router 0.2.14 you can pass string as reload value - ui router will refresh state that matches to passed string and all its children.