Chronic cervicogenic tinnitus rapidly resolved by intermittent use of cervical collar

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Bechter, Karl ^a   Wieland, Martin ^b   Hamann, Gerhard F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b HKM HandelsKontorMeindl GmbH Gundelfingen   (Germany)

^c BKH Günzburg ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical collar; Cervicogenic headache; Cervicogenic tinnitus; Tinnitus mechanisms; Tinnitus treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964570425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00043     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Smith GS, Romanelli-Gobbi M, Gray-Karagrigoriou E, Artz GJ. Complementary and integrative treatments: tinnitus. Otolaryngol Clin North Am (2013) 46:389-408. doi: 10.1016/j.otc.2013.02.005
2. Baguley D, McFerran D, Hall D. Tinnitus. Lancet (2013) 382:2600-7. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60142-7
3. Sanchez TG, Rocha CB. Diagnosis and management of somatosensory tinnitus: review article. Clinics (2011) 66(6):1089-94. doi:10.1590/S1807-59322011000600028
4. Michiels S, De Hertogh W, Truijen S, Van de Heyning P. Physical therapy treatment in patients suffering from cervicogenic somatic tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2014) 15:297-302. doi:10.1186/1745-6215-15-297
5. Michiels S, De Hertogh W, Truijen S, Van de Heyning P. Cervical spine dysfunctions in patients with chronic subjective tinnitus. Otol Neurotol (2015) 36(4):741-5. doi:10.1097/MAO.0000000000000670
6. Noh Y, Kwon OK, Kim HJ, Kim JS. Rotational vertebral artery syndrome due to compression of nondominant vertebral artery terminating in posterior inferior cerebellar artery. J Neurol (2011) 258(10):1775-80. doi:10.1007/s00415-011-6005-1
7. Alnaami I, Siddiqui M, Saqqur M. The diagnosis of vertebrobasilar insufficiency using transcranial Doppler ultrasound. Case Rep Med (2012) 2012:894913. doi:10.1155/2012/894913
8. Edwards IJ, Dallas M, Poole SL, Milligan CJ, Yanagawa Y, Szabo G, et al. The neurochemically diverse intermedius nucleus of the medulla as a source of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic input to the nucleus tractus solitarii. J Neurosci (2007) 27(31):8324-33. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0638-07.2007
9. Coban G, Cöven I, Cifci BE, Yildirim E, Yazici AC, Horasanli B. The importance of craniovertebral and cervicomedullary angles in cervicogenic headache. Diagn Interv Radiol (2014) 20:172-7. doi:10.5152/dir.2013.13213
10. Headache Classification Subcommittee of the International Headache Society. The international classification of headache disorders: 2nd edition. Cephalalgia (2004) 24:9-160. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2982.2003.00824.x
11. Rocha CB, Snachez TG. Efficacy of mayofascial trigger point deactivation for tinnitus control. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol (2012) 78(6):21-6. doi:10.5935/1808-8694.20120028
12. Rocha CB, Sanchez TG. Myofascial trigger points: another way of modulating tinnitus. Prog Brain Res (2007) 166:209-14. doi:10.1016/S0079-6123(07)66018-X
13. Baguley DM, Phillips J, Humphriss RL, Jones S, Axon PR, Moffat DA. The prevalence and onset of gaze modulation of tinnitus and increased sensitivity to noise after translabyrinthine vestibular schwannoma excision. Otol Neurotol (2006) 27(2):220-4. doi:10.1097/01.mao.0000172412.87778.28
14. Coad ML, Lockwood A, Salvi R, Burkard R. Characteristics of patients with gaze-evoked tinnitus. Otol Neurotol (2001) 22(5):650-4. doi:10.1097/00129492-200109000-00016
15. Sanchez TG, Guerra GC, Lorenzi MC, Brandao AL, Bento RF. The influence of voluntary muscle contractions upon the onset and modulation of tinnitus. Audiol Neurootol (2002) 7(6):370-5. doi:10.1159/000066155
16. Chen Y-C, Li X, Liu L, Wang J, Lu C-Q, Yang M, et al. Tinnitus and hyperacusis involve hyperactivity and enhanced connectivity in auditory-limbic-arousal-cerebellar network. ELife (2015) 4:e06576. doi:10.7554/eLife.06576
17. Sedley W, Gander PE, Howard MA, Griffiths T. Intracranial mapping of a cortical tinnitus system using residual inhibition. Curr Biol (2014) 25:1208-14. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.075