Efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of acute idiopathic hearing loss with tinnitus: a randomized,double blind control pilot study
- Conditions
- H93.1H91.2TinnitusSudden idiopathic hearing loss
- Registration Number
- DRKS00012664
- Lead Sponsor
- HNO Klinik Heidelberg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Acute idiopathic hearing loss with tinnitus
- Written declaration of consent
- Knowledge of the German language
- Age at least 18 years
- initial, planned or ongoing, therapy with cortisone according to the standard of the ENT clinic Heidelberg
- Chronic recurrent hearing loss
- Chronic tinnitus
- Known coagulopathy or anticoagulant therapy with bleeding time over 4 minutes, thrombocytes <50,000 / µl
- Lack of compliance
- Acute disease in the acupuncture area, which do not allow acupuncture
- Acute neuropsychiatric disorders
- analgesic, opioid or drug dependence
- Inability to follow the instructions in the study (lack of language, dementia)
- Participate in another clinical trial
- Continuous pension-related compensation or opposition proceedings
- Specific immunotherapy (in treatment)
- pregnancy
- Malignomas in the anamnesis
- Cortisone therapy before the beginning of the study (due to other diseases)
- nickel allergy
- silicone allergy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in the subjectively perceived overall impairment by the symptoms of tinnitus and hearing loss by means of the visual analogue scale (VAS).<br>Test are performed:<br>at initial presentation, after 14 days of therapy with Prednisolone (2 weeks after initial presentation), after acupuncture (4 weeks after initial presentation), at time of follow-up examination 8 weeks after initial presentation.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method