Osteopathy in idiopathic sudden hearing loss
Item
- Title
- Osteopathy in idiopathic sudden hearing loss
- Author(s)
- Staffa Uwe
- Abstract
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Objective: The purpose of this work was to find out if there is a better recovery of hearing treshold in patients with sudden hearing loss who were treated osteopathicly after the standard treatment course with steroids and rheologic remedies compared to those who were not.
Design and Methods: Controlled clinical trial of patients with sudden hearing loss with persistent hearing impairment after a one week inpatient therapy series with corticosteroids and rheologic drugs.
Results: In the intervention group there was an over all improvement of hearing treshold of 5dB mean an in the controls of 4,4dB mean improvement. The intervention group showed some improvement between 2dB and 7,5dB in the lower frequencies (125Hz – 1kHz) and in the higher frequencies (3kHz – 8kHz) between 3dB an 14dB. In the controls improvement appeared in the frequencies from 125Hz to 2kHz between 5dB and 8dB. Above 3kHz there was almost no difference.
Conclusion: The question if osteopathic treatment, following drug therapy in care of sudden sensorineural hearing loss, leads to better recovery of hearing tresholds than no additional treatment can not be answeredsufficiently after this work. In the end the composition of the two groups was to different to allow a correct comparison. - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2007
- Date Submitted
- 1.3.2007 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- German
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13348
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Hearing Disorders
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- UweStaffa_MasterThesisOsteopathy_October2006_english.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
Staffa Uwe, “Osteopathy in idiopathic sudden hearing loss”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 15, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/3013