Low Level Laser Therapy for Treatment of Tinnitus in Red Sea Scuba Divers

Egyptian Biomedical Research Network

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tinnitus

Treatments: Other: Sham device; Device: Low level laser therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT04962750

N13476

Details and patient eligibility

About

Scuba Diving has become a popular hobby, for a leisure activity, diving puts the auditory system at the risk of a wide variety of complaints including tinnitus, Low level laser therapy is a new modality in treatment of tinnitus. This study evaluates effect of laser therapy on tinnitus of Scuba divers in Red Sea.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• scuba divers

Exclusion criteria

• Other ear or neurological diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

laser therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Low level laser therapy

Control

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Sham device