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: Received: 10 May 2023 / Approved: 10 May 2023 / Online: 10 May 2023 (14:44:55 CEST)
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Cuesta, M.; Cobo, P. Sequential and Continuous Enriched Acoustic Environment as Customized Stimuli for Tinnitus Sound Therapy. Preprints2023, 2023050767. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0767.v1
Cuesta, M.; Cobo, P. Sequential and Continuous Enriched Acoustic Environment as Customized Stimuli for Tinnitus Sound Therapy. Preprints 2023, 2023050767. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0767.v1
Cuesta, M.; Cobo, P. Sequential and Continuous Enriched Acoustic Environment as Customized Stimuli for Tinnitus Sound Therapy. Preprints2023, 2023050767. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0767.v1
APA Style
Cuesta, M., & Cobo, P. (2023). Sequential and Continuous Enriched Acoustic Environment as Customized Stimuli for Tinnitus Sound Therapy. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0767.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Cuesta, M. and Pedro Cobo. 2023 "Sequential and Continuous Enriched Acoustic Environment as Customized Stimuli for Tinnitus Sound Therapy" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0767.v1
Abstract
Tinnitus is a heterogeneous auditory disorder without a pharmacological cure but with several palliative treatments. One of the most applied treatments for tinnitus relief combines counselling with sound therapy. The efficiency of this sound therapy depends on the type of sound stimulus and the exposition time. The fundamentals of a customized sound therapy that stimulates the auditory system with a continuous or sequential sound which compensates for the subject hearing loss are described here. A sample of 137 tinnitus subjects are treated with this sound therapy, named Enriched Acoustic Environment. 90% of these patients achieved a clinically relevant and statistically significant tinnitus-related distress relief quantified as a mean drop of their Tinnitus Handicap Inventory score of 24.3 points. These subjects exposed with sequential stimuli (31%) achieved greater distress relief (5.1 points more in their Tinnitus Handicap Inventory score) than those stimulated with continuous sound (69%). Therefore, this sound constitutes an optimized stimulus for tinnitus treatment.
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