International Clinical and Medical Case Reports Journal (ISSN: 2832-5788) | Volume 4, Issue 1 | Case Series | Open Access DOI
Edwin Chau-Leung Yu*
Hong Kong Institute of Integrative Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
*Correspondence to: Edwin Chau-Leung Yu
Fulltext PDFTinnitus through orthodox treatment has minimal success. The well protected olivocochlear apparatus in a bony cage logically seems to make it difficult to find definite management. The use of alternative medicine particularly acupuncture has variable success. Acupuncture, effective for many aspects, may be useful particularly with the well documented myofascial trigger points associated with tinnitus. On the other hand, this paper described patients successfully treated with simple medications and herbs with or without acupuncture. This is followed with a review of 96 older adults over 50 years of age amongst 248 new patients during the year of 2019 in InteMed clinic. In these older adults, 20 had tinnitus and, discounting 9 transit patients not treated, the 11 patients treated had 9 of them (6/8 females and 3/3 males) with tinnitus totally remitted and 2 much relieved. None had acupuncture. What in our series successful to make tinnitus remitted are discussed. From the malleable sutures joining at the asterion just below the cochlear in the cranial cage, disorientating with mechanical stress and the herbs re-strengthening the body state through the myofascial support may have contributed to restore the state of the inner ear such that tinnitus could be improved.
This report was presented in a neurology session in Multispecialty Medical Mega Conference and transcribed into this paper.
Bottom-up tinnitus; Mechanical stress; Body state and Myofascial trigger points
Yu ECL. Tinnitus, What Could Make it Treatable, Case Review. Int Clinc Med Case Rep Jour 2025;4(1):1-8.