Combined Central and Peripheral Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Tinnitus: a Pilot Study

Combined central and peripheral stimulation for treatment of chronictinnitus: a randomized pilot study.


RESULTS:
We found that combined stimulation was effective in tinnitus treatment. This effect remained for 4 weeks after the end of the treatment. However, each of rTMS and LLLT alone had no significant effect. Repeated-measures ANOVA showed a significant effect of Time and Time × Intervention interaction for THI and VAS scores. The post hoc t test for different time points per intervention revealed a significant difference between baseline and all postintervention measurements of both THI and VAS for the combination intervention.

CONCLUSION:
Combined central rTMS and peripheral LLLT is more beneficial as a new method for management of tinnitus rather than these two used separately.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25030898

 

This seems promising. I don't recall this type of significant improvement before.

 

Any update since 2014?