Migraine Myths

Migraine is neither an “extreme headache” nor a psychosomatic condition, as many patients and some healthcare providers continue to believe.

One of the most pervasive misconceptions is that migraine is a vascular disease. Current and emerging evidence disproves this notion and has established that migraine has a distinctive physiology based on a neurological process.

Due to poor understanding of the condition, migraine is often misdiagnosed – or not diagnosed at all.
It is frequently mistaken for tension-type or sinus headache, even though headache specialists consider the latter to be relatively rare.