ReviewTherapeutic advances in chronic disease2020
The state of the art of sound therapy for subjective tinnitus in adults.
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- Changes in Emotional Regulation, Well-Being, and Pain Perception Following Music Therapy in People with Sensory Processing Sensitivity: A Non-Controlled Exploratory Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Hearing training with mobile application for tinnitus: usability and clinical results of the Zumit app.CoDAS · 2026Observational
- Enriched Acoustic Environment Therapy (EAE): A Cost-Effective and Feasible Alternative to Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Efficacy and safety of a modified sound therapy for patients with subjective tinnitus (MOST): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Digital Frequency Customized Relieving Sound for Chronic Subjective Tinnitus Management: Prospective Controlled Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- An innovative predictive model for assessing tinnitus sound therapy outcomes: integrating audiological and psychometric variables.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Pathophysiological Insights and Multimodal Interventions in Chronic Tinnitus, Anxiety, and Sleep Disorders.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Review
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- Personalized Sound Therapy Combined with Low and High-Frequency Electromagnetic Stimulation for Chronic Tinnitus.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Graph-Based Electroencephalography Analysis in Tinnitus Therapy.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- What does visual snow look like? Quantification by matching a simulation.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- The Effectiveness of Microcurrent Stimulation Combined with Sound Therapy for Tinnitus Relief: A Preliminary Study.Audiology research · 2024Article
- Analysis of clinical characteristics and predictive model for effective treatment of tinnitus in patients with transient compound sound therapy.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- The quality and reliability of patient education regarding sound therapy videos for tinnitus on YouTube.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Targeting the Limbic System: Insights into Its Involvement in Tinnitus.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- The fudan tinnitus relieving system application for tinnitus management.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Article
- State of the art: non-invasive electrical stimulation for the treatment of chronic tinnitus.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of tinnitus therapy using a mobile application.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 · 2022Article
- Effect of Auditory Discrimination Therapy on Attentional Processes of Tinnitus Patients.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSound therapy is a clinically common method of tinnitus management. Various forms of sound therapy have been developed, but there are controversies regarding the selection criteria and the efficacy of different forms of sound therapy in the clinic. Our goal was to review the types and forms of sound therapy and our understanding of how the different characteristics of tinnitus patients influence their curative effects so as to provide a reference for personalized choice of tinnitus sound therapy.
methodUsing an established methodological framework, a search of six databases including PubMed identified 43 records that met our inclusion criteria. The search strategy used the following key words: tinnitus AND (acoustic OR sound OR music) AND (treatment OR therapy OR management OR intervention OR measure).
resultsThere are various forms of sound therapy, and most of them show positive therapeutic effects. The effect of customized sound therapy is generally better than that of non-customized sound therapy, and patients with more severe initial tinnitus respond better to sound therapy.
conclusionSound therapy can effectively suppress tinnitus, at least in some patients. However, there is a lack of randomized controlled trials to identify effective management strategies. Further studies are needed to identify the most effective form of sound therapy for individualized therapy, and large, multicenter, long-term follow-up studies are still needed in order to develop more effective and targeted sound-therapy protocols. In addition, it is necessary to analyze the characteristics of individual tinnitus patients and to unify the assessment criteria of tinnitus.
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