Therapeutic Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulaton on Tinnitus

N/ACompletedNCT02071732

Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital19 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to determine whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is effective in the treatment of tinnitus.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Patients With Subjective Tinnitus

Interventions

real repetitive Transcranial Magnetic StimulationDEVICE

sham repetitive Transcranial Magnetic StimulationDEVICE

This sham stimulation is not true stimulation.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Subjective tinnitus * Age 18 years and older Exclusion Criteria: * Meniere, conductive hearing loss, objective tinnitus * History of seizure disorder or epilepsy * Clinically relevant psychiatric comorbidity * Previous symptomatic stroke * Surgically or traumatically implanted foreign bodies such as a pacemaker, an implanted medication pump, a metal plate in the skull, or metal inside the skull or eyes (other than dental appliances or fillings), intracardiac lines that may pose a physical hazard during magnetic stimulation

Locations (1)

Department of Neurology, and Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital

Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Tinnitus handicap inventory score

Primary outcomes will be measured twice. One is before, and the other is after 5-day rTMS interventions. Baseline primary outcome will be acceptable if it is done within the prior 6 months of 1st rTMS. Follow-up primary outcome will be done within the five days after 5th rTMS.

Time frame: Before (- six months) and after (+ 5 days) rTMS interventions

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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