Tinnitus, though unremarkable, is still one of the unsolved problems in the medical field. 12%-32% people have tinnitus. More than 70% patients with hearing impairment have tinnitus, and 80% patients with tinnitus have hearing loss. 10%-25% tinnitus patients seek medical treatment. /kloc-In the 20th century, people found that tinnitus can be divided into objective tinnitus and subjective tinnitus. There is also the difference between high-frequency tinnitus and low-frequency tinnitus. And most tinnitus is related to hearing loss. In the 20th century, medical circles emphasized pathological content and emotional problems, which became the focus of modern tinnitus solution. Clinically, tinnitus can appear alone or accompanied by deafness. Deafness develops from tinnitus except sudden deafness, so the disease often appears at the same time as tinnitus in the early stage.
A few days ago, Professor Robert Wayne Sweetow, the most famous American tinnitus researcher, came to Shanghai to discuss the treatment strategy of tinnitus with domestic experts. Professor Sweetow pointed out through years of research on tinnitus that music therapy is one of the effective treatments recognized by the medical community. Music can mask unwanted sounds and disturbing noises. The positive emotional and psychological effects brought by music are well documented in the literature. Most researchers agree that music can reduce stress, make people feel relaxed and comfortable, and reduce anxiety. At the same time, the psychological treatment of tinnitus is very important. If it is not caused by malignant diseases, we should be prepared to coexist peacefully with tinnitus for a long time.
What kind of sound can not only distract patients from tinnitus, but also cause excessive attention, which is one of the problems that tinnitus treatment researchers need to solve. The sound that meets this requirement needs to be similar, non-repetitive and unfixed, so that the sound played by the hearing aid can make the patient feel relaxed and relieve the pressure. This method is called habitual therapy, which can improve tinnitus to varying degrees and relieve tinnitus troubles.
Music therapy combined with habituation therapy is carried out in Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which has become a part of Professor Li Ming's unique tinnitus therapy and has been proved by more than a thousand patients.