The Effect of Physiotherapy on Cervicogenic Somatic Tinnitus

Tinnitus Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of the Effect of Cervical Spine Treatment in Tinnitus Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02016313
• Other study ID #: G850-tinnitus1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 9, 2013
• Last updated: December 3, 2014
• Start date: May 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2014

Study information

• Verified date: December 2014
• Source: Universiteit Antwerpen
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Belgium: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether physiotherapy is effective in the treatment of a group of tinnitus patients with neck complaints.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: December 2014
• Est. primary completion date: August 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• severe chronic non-fluctuating subjective cervicogenic somatic tinnitus, which has been stable for at least three months, combined with neck complaints

Exclusion Criteria:

• objective tinnitus

• subjective tinnitus with etiologies, such as hearing loss or Meniere's disease, severe depression (> 19 on the Beck depression questionnaire)

• progressive middle ear pathology

• intracranial pathology

• traumatic cervical spine injury

• tumors

• cervical spine surgery

• any cervical spine condition in which physical therapy treatment is contra- indicated

• received physical therapy treatment directed to the cervical spine in the past 2 months

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Tinnitus

Intervention

Other:
• physiotherapy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	University Hospital of Antwerp	Edegem	Antwerp

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universiteit Antwerpen	University Hospital, Antwerp

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Tinnitus Functional Index		pre treatment, post treatment, 6 and 12 months follow up	No