Neuro-Music Therapy for Recent-Onset Tinnitus

Miriam Grapp, Elisabeth Hutter, Heike Argstatter, Peter K. Plinkert and Hans Volker Bolay

SAGE Open, 2013, vol. 3, issue 2, 2158244013489692

Abstract: The aim of this pilot study was the evaluation of the neuro-music therapy approach as a new treatment option for patients with recent-onset tinnitus whose tinnitus symptoms were enduring after initial pharmacological treatment. In all, 15 patients with recent-onset tinnitus took part in our manualized short-term music-therapeutic treatment. Tinnitus severity and individual tinnitus distress were assessed by the German version of the tinnitus questionnaire (TQ) and the Attention and Performance Self-Assessment Scale (APSA) at three different measurement times: baseline (T 0 ), start of treatment (T 1 ), and end of treatment (T 2 ). Score changes in TQ and APSA from start to end of treatment indicated significant improvements in tinnitus-related distress. According to the Jacobson and Truax reliable change index (RC), 73.3% of the patients showed a reliable reduction in individual TQ-score. The neuro-music therapy for recent-onset tinnitus according to the “Heidelberg Model†introduced in this pilot study seems to provide an effective treatment option for patients with recent-onset tinnitus.

Keywords: tinnitus; recent-onset; tinnitus distress; neuronal tinnitus network; pilot study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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