Therapeutic Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulaton on Tinnitus

Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patients With Subjective Tinnitus

Treatments: Device: real repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Device: sham repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02071732

2014-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is effective in the treatment of tinnitus.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjective tinnitus
• Age 18 years and older

Exclusion criteria

• Meniere, conductive hearing loss, objective tinnitus
• History of seizure disorder or epilepsy
• Clinically relevant psychiatric comorbidity
• Previous symptomatic stroke
• Surgically or traumatically implanted foreign bodies such as a pacemaker, an implanted medication pump, a metal plate in the skull, or metal inside the skull or eyes (other than dental appliances or fillings), intracardiac lines that may pose a physical hazard during magnetic stimulation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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19 participants in 2 patient groups

Real rTMS

Active Comparator group

Description:

Real rTMS is real continuous theta burst stimulation.

Treatment:

Device: real repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Sham rTMS

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Sham rTMS is sham continuous theta burst stimulation.

Treatment:

Device: sham repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation