Electrical Stimulation of the Cochlea for Treatment of Chronic Disabling Tinnitus

[beefling]

Can we get an update? Is he still doing clinical trials? Or waiting for FDA approval?

We could ask him directly. As it turns out, I know just the guy for the job.

 

[LBE]

@LBE, it's as close to medical negligence as you could get. Like, seriously, wtf. Researchers are too narrow-minded in their own nonsense. But why haven't the Tinnitus UK or the ATA flagged this up decades ago? They have scientific advisory boards. Makes my blood boil, honestly.

You have really made me angry.

It's maddening to think that we've had a potential intervention available for so long and no one has done anything with it. That's why I've donated multiple times to Tinnitus Quest and will keep doing so--we can't let another 30 years go by like the last.

 

[UKBloke]

This thread has gotten a bit confusing, so I just re-read it to try to understand where we are regarding the various ongoing and completed trials.

The Matthew Carlson trial that the OP originally referenced was completed, and all 22 participants experienced positive results. It seems, however, that an additional trial of Matthew Carlson's has yet to report results. Was there a parallel trial? That is the part I am most confused about.

As a side note, it appears that the Carlson trial technology differs from the eventual product, if there ever will be one, in the sense that the study stimulation was delivered intra-tympanically, whereas the eventual technology would be implanted into the mastoid as a permanent solution. This is my understanding at least.

Regarding other trials, Hamid's is in progress, and we should be getting results next year. There has been so little information about his technology that I am not entirely clear on how an eventual device would be implemented. The more I have thought about it, the more a permanent intra-tympanic device, rather than mastoid implantation, seems potentially troublesome.

Cochlear is recruiting. If they can get their technology to work, and there is no reason to believe they cannot, they are my personal favorite to get something to market. In the tinnitus space, they seem to bridge the gap between endless research and commercial viability.