The Effect of Physiotherapy on Cervicogenic Somatic Tinnitus

Universiteit Antwerpen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tinnitus

Treatments: Other: physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02016313

G850-tinnitus1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether physiotherapy is effective in the treatment of a group of tinnitus patients with neck complaints.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• severe chronic non-fluctuating subjective cervicogenic somatic tinnitus, which has been stable for at least three months, combined with neck complaints

Exclusion criteria

• objective tinnitus
• subjective tinnitus with etiologies, such as hearing loss or Meniere's disease, severe depression (> 19 on the Beck depression questionnaire)
• progressive middle ear pathology
• intracranial pathology
• traumatic cervical spine injury
• tumors
• cervical spine surgery
• any cervical spine condition in which physical therapy treatment is contra- indicated
• received physical therapy treatment directed to the cervical spine in the past 2 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Immediate therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Physiotherapy protocol

Treatment:

Other: physiotherapy

waiting list

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Physiotherapy protocol

Treatment:

Other: physiotherapy