These 3 factors could mean more relief with your somatosensory tinnitus

These 3 factors could mean more relief with your somatosensory tinnitus

Tinnitus is defined is the perception of sound in the absence of an acoustic external stimulus. To a person, this correlates to a bothersome auditory perception of noise.

With that said, there can be many reasons why an individual has these symptoms. A subtype of subjective tinnitus is called somatosensory tinnitus.

This basically means that in some individuals, the pitch and loudness of the tinnitus can be modulated or adjusted from movements of the neck, jaw, eyes and turning the head.

Until now, we have never written several articles about somatosensory tinnitus before but none about prognostic factors.

The reason is that it is always difficult to give patients a prognosis without first a thorough evaluation and even response to treatment.  Some medical research can help now.

Tinnitus relief can come down to these 3 factors.

With that said, here are 3 factors from Sanchez & Rocha’s work in 2010.

The authors found the following 3 items are associated with greater improvement in somatosensory tinnitus:

1. Normal hearing

   • This is determined by the presence of symmetric pure tone thresholds in both ears (normal or abnormal)

2. Unilateral or asymmetric tinnitus

   • This is determined by the presence of just one sided symptoms.

3. Chronic pain

   • The details of chronic pain is beyond the scope of this blog post, but generally speaking, chronic pain has been recognized as persistent signals to the central nervous system.
   • One aspect of chronic pain can be the presence of myofascial trigger points.
   • The treatment of myofascial trigger points can be associated with more success of someone who has somatosensory tinnitus.

I hope this can help you figure out other strategies to help yourself! Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or looking for treatment.