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rTMS for Tinnitus: A Discouraging Study

Written by AudioNotch Team on October 29, 2013

Categories: Treatment Review

Tags: rTMS rTMS tinnitus treatment transcranial magnetic stimulation tinnitus

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a treatment that has been tested for tinnitus. There has been some promising literature with guided rTMS in the past. In the procedure, a magnet is used to modify neurons non-invasively, by holding it over a patient’s head. The technology has been used to treat depression.

A recent randomized controlled trial (considered the most high quality type of experiment) has shown that rTMS is not effective for tinnitus treatment:
Results: At none of the follow-up evaluation moments a significant difference between rTMS and placebo was observed with respect to changes in … Continue Reading