M Pedemonte, D Drexler, S Rodio, D Geisinger, A Bianco, D Pol-Fernandes, V Bernhardt
Instituto Universitario CLAEH, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Int Tinnitus J. 2010;16(1):37-43.
A new strategy for idiopathic subjective tinnitus treatment - sound stimulation during sleep - has been applied. It was based on the acknowledgement that the auditory system also works during sleep, processing the incoming information. Eleven patients were stimulated every night during 6 months. The stimulus was a sound that mimetized the tinnitus and was fixed at the same tinnitus intensity, applied through an iPod. All patients decreased their tinnitus intensity in the first month of treatment (statistically significant), most of them in the first week. Tinnitus intensity continued decreasing in the following weeks; three patients presented periods of total silence.
一种用于特发性主观性耳鸣治疗的新策略——睡眠期间声音刺激——已被应用。其依据是认识到听觉系统在睡眠期间也在工作，处理传入的信息。11名患者在6个月内每晚接受刺激。刺激声模仿耳鸣，通过iPod以与耳鸣相同的强度固定施加。所有患者在治疗的第一个月耳鸣强度均降低（具有统计学意义），大多数患者在第一周就出现这种情况。在接下来的几周里，耳鸣强度持续下降；三名患者出现了完全安静的时期。
