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Subtyping Somatic Tinnitus: A Cross-Sectional UK Cohort Study of Demographic, Clinical and Audiological Characteristics.
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- Association Between Subjective Tinnitus and Cervical Spine or Temporomandibular Disorders: A Systematic Review.Trends in hearingPooled it
- Diagnostic Criteria for Somatosensory Tinnitus: A Delphi Process and Face-to-Face Meeting to Establish Consensus.Trends in hearingPooled it
- Tinnitus Phenotypes and Their Response to the Enriched Acoustic Environment (EAE) Treatment.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Tinnitus in patients with orofacial complaints.Head & face medicine · 2025Article
- Frequency of Oral Behaviors as a Risk Factor for Somatosensory Tinnitus.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2025Article
- Poly-symptomatology of chronic multi-canalicular benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: a deductive, inductive, and abductive narrative review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- The Effect of Physical Therapy on Somatosensory Tinnitus.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Somatosensory Tinnitus: Recent Developments in Diagnosis and Treatment.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2023Review
- Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion Surgery for Cervical Spondylosis with Concomitant Tinnitus: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.Orthopaedic surgery · 2023Article
- Methods, Applications, and Limitations of Somatic Maneuvers for the Modulation of Tinnitus.Audiology research · 2022Review
- Tinnitus Update.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2021Review
- A Review and a Framework of Variables for Defining and Characterizing Tinnitus Subphenotypes.Brain sciences · 2020Review
- Prognostic Indicators for Positive Treatment Outcome After Multidisciplinary Orofacial Treatment in Patients With Somatosensory Tinnitus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- The Presence of Physical Symptoms in Patients With Tinnitus: International Web-Based Survey.Interactive journal of medical research · 2019Article
- Impact of Temporomandibular Joint Complaints on Tinnitus-Related Distress.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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- A Pilot Study of Peripheral Muscle Magnetic Stimulation as Add-on Treatment to Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Chronic Tinnitus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
- Somatosensory tinnitus: Current evidence and future perspectives.The Journal of international medical research · 2017Review
- Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Somatosensory Tinnitus: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
- Genetics of Tinnitus: An Emerging Area for Molecular Diagnosis and Drug Development.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Review
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Abstract
Somatic tinnitus is the ability to modulate the psychoacoustic features of tinnitus by somatic manoeuvres. The condition is still not fully understood and further identification of this subtype is essential, particularly for the purpose of establishing protocols for both its diagnosis and treatment. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of somatic tinnitus within a large UK cohort using a largely unselected sample. We believe this to be relatively unique in comparison to current literature on the topic. This was investigated by using a total of 608 participant assessments from a set of recognised tinnitus and audiology measures. Results from a set of chi-square tests of association found that amongst the individuals with somatic tinnitus, a higher proportion had pulsatile tinnitus (different from heartbeat), were under the age of 40, reported variation in the loudness of their tinnitus and reported temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder. The same pattern of results was confirmed using a multivariate analysis of the data based on logistic regression. These findings have strong implications towards the profiling of somatic tinnitus as a distinct subtype of general tinnitus.
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