Effect of Dry Needling on Muskuloskeletal Tinnitus
- Conditions
- Somatosensory Tinnitus.Tinnitus, unspecified earH93.19
- Registration Number
- IRCT20240323061355N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 24
Patients of both sexes with unilateral or bilateral tinnitus and at least 3 months have passed since the onset of symptoms.
Existence of Sanchez, Levine and Michiel criteria to determine somatic tinnitus
The presence of at least one Latent or active trigger point in the head and neck and shoulder girdle
Normal audiometry
Having contraindications for using needles such as fear of needles, lymphedema in the region, Vascular and blood diseases, use of blood thinners such as warfarin
Taking pain-reducing drugs such as anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxants in the 30 days before the evaluation
Fibromyalgia
Having previous experience of using dry needling technique in the head, neck and shoulder girdle region
Manual therapy to reduce pain in the craniocervical region in the 30 days prior to evaluation
Occurrence of symptoms that indicate that the patient's tinnitus symptoms are otological, such as sudden deafness, infection of ear, damage to the eardrum and suffering from diseases such as Meniere's, perilymphatic fistula, etc.
The presence of abnormal posture in the head and neck region caused by neurological lesions
The patient's unwillingness to continue the treatment and cooperate in the research
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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