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Treatments for Tinnitus: An Overview of Future Possibilities

Introduction
I would like to provide an overview of some prospective future treatments for tinnitus based on current research into its mechanisms. The present list will only include treatments aimed at reducing or eliminating the tinnitus signal itself, rather than at facilitating long-term habituation to tinnitus (as in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy), or at facilitating coping (as in masking, cognitive psychological yherapy and biofeedback). Aside from the options presented below, stem-cell research may offer a further option for such treatment if it becomes possible to regrow damaged hair cells, but this treatment is in my view a long way off and may well fail to address the apparent central component of much persistent tinnitus. Cochlear neurectomy, another proposed treatment, certainly fails to address such a central component.

A. Treatments for Acute Tinnitus aimed at preventing its establishment as Chronic Tinnitus

*A1. Drug therapy for acute hearing loss
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Posted by: Andres Cisneros

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