ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental medicine2012
Long-term effects of the "Heidelberg Model of Music Therapy" in patients with chronic tinnitus.
Article in International journal of clinical and experimental medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01845155 (Neuro-Music-Therapy for Patients With Chronic Tinnitus - a Controlled Clinical Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Neuro-Music-Therapy for Patients With Chronic Tinnitus - a Controlled Clinical Trial
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Guideline
- The Association Between Effectiveness of Tinnitus Intervention and Cognitive Function-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- A multidisciplinary systematic review of the treatment for chronic idiopathic tinnitus.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2017Pooled it
- [On the interdisciplinary S3 guidelines for the treatment of chronic idiopathic tinnitus].HNO · 2015Guideline
- Music Therapy and Tinnitus Treatment: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2026Review
- Exploring the interaction between emotional states and tinnitus severity before and after a sound therapy intervention.Journal of otology · 2025Article
- Changes in temporal lobe activation during a sound stimulation task in patients with sensorineural tinnitus: a multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy study.Biomedical engineering online · 2024Article
- Desensitizing nicotinic agents normalize tinnitus-related inhibitory dysfunction in the auditory cortex and ameliorate behavioral evidence of tinnitus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- A Comparative Study of Treatment Outcomes of Music Therapy, Tinnitus Maskers and Pharmacotherpy in Chronic Subjective Tinnitus.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2022Article
- Surrounded by Sound: The Impact of Tinnitus on Musicians.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Sense and Sensibility: A Review of the Behavioral Neuroscience of Tinnitus Sound Therapy and a New Typology.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021Review
- The state of the art of sound therapy for subjective tinnitus in adults.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2020Review
- Heidelberg Neuro-Music Therapy Restores Attention-Related Activity in the Angular Gyrus in Chronic Tinnitus Patients.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
- Heidelberg Neuro-Music Therapy Enhances Task-Negative Activity in Tinnitus Patients.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
- Evaluation of 5536 patients treated in an integrative outpatient tinnitus treatment center-immediate effects and a modeling approach for sustainability.BMC health services research · 2016Article
- Evidence and evidence gaps in tinnitus therapy.GMS current topics in otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery · 2016Review
- Cognitive Mechanisms in Chronic Tinnitus: Psychological Markers of a Failure to Switch Attention.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- Neural correlates of the Heidelberg Music Therapy: indicators for the regeneration of auditory cortex in tinnitus patients?Neural regeneration research · 2015Article
- Cortical reorganization in recent-onset tinnitus patients by the Heidelberg Model of Music Therapy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2015Article
- Music therapy as an early intervention to prevent chronification of tinnitus.International journal of clinical and experimental medicine · 2013Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe "Heidelberg Model of Music Therapy for Chronic Tinnitus" is a manualized short term treatment (nine 50-minutes sessions of individualized therapy on five consecutive days). It has proven to be efficient in reducing tinnitus symptoms in the short run. Now the long-term impact of the treatment after up to 5.4 years should be explored. MATERIALS AND
methods206 patients who had attended the neuro-music therapy were addressed in a structured follow-up questionnaire survey. 107 complete questionnaires entered analysis. Follow-up time was 2.65 (SD 1.1) years.
results76% of the patients achieved a reliable reduction in their tinnitus scores, the overall tinnitus distress as measured by the Mini-TQ diminished from 11.9 (SD = 4.9) to 7.4 (SD = 5.2) points, 87% of the patients were satisfied by the way they were treated during therapy, and 71% of the patients did not undergo any further treatment after. Evaluation of therapeutic elements displays, that only music therapy specific interventions were rated helpful by the patients. Tinnitus related factors (such as tinnitus pitch or loudness, time since onset) did not influence therapy outcome but female gender, positive therapeutic relationship, and higher initial Mini-TQ scores became apparent as factors predicting better chances for greater therapy success. DISCUSSION: The "Heidelberg Model of Music Therapy for Chronic Tinnitus" seems to be effective in the long run. The outcome effect size of d' = 0.89, can be accounted for as "large" effect and falls into the upper range value compared to established treatments.
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