Sinus Headaches are Overdiagnosed Leading to Dangerous and Costly Tests and Treatments

Here is another study showing that sinus headache is grossly overdiagnosed with most of the patients actually meeting the critieria for tension headache or migraine headache. This leads to dangerous and costly tests and treatments. 73% of the patients had unnecessary chronic antibiotic treatment and 29% had unnecessary sinus surgery!

Causes of headache in patients with a primary diagnosis of sinus headache