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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Tinnitus / January 2005laser therapy "cure" ?!
this treatment is now being advertised in the UK in the form of a walkman-like device.It is called a "Tinnimed" and is a "5mW medical soft laser transmitter connected by a fiber optic cable and an adaptor with a soft silicone tip to the ear..." This is from a VERY reputable company--Puretone--and I have just received their literature. The claims are that over several trails totalling 1746 patients; 7% no change 10 % totally cured 30% tempory relief 53% definitive relief as a sufferer of T for 20 years now this sounds like good odds to me! ---worth £300 folks?? visit them at www.puretone.net what do we think? this is a test, sorry we are new... 1) What's a "soft" laser - just an LED ? 2) Why should shining coherent light into the ear have any effect anyway? What's the theory behind it? (I once tried it - made no difference). 3) ?300 ? That's probably it's most effective feature and the only reason it ever 'works'. Once you've spent that much your placebo effect becomes highly motivated ! Steve O > this treatment is now being advertised in the UK in the form of a > walkman-like device.It is called a "Tinnimed" and is a "5mW medical [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > what do we think? >7% no change >10 % totally cured >30% tempory relief >53% definitive relief Well I for one would like to look more closely about what it claims to do or how they claim it works. Then I'd like to see some reports by the people who say it has been a cure or a relief. I'd want to know what they judge as a relief and a cure. How measurable is the relief and what is the criteria for an improvement in tinnitus? It's a very difficult thing to measure - almost impossible I'd say. I will have a look at the website to see what they are claiming for it. El Pea >I will have a look at the website to see what they are claiming for >it. >El Pea Just following up to my visit to the site. I could find nothing on the puretone website that mentioned anything about any Laser device costing 300 plus. Searching the site for references to the word "Laser" produced no results. I combed all the Tinnitus relief devices and they only seem to be selling White Noise Generators. So I'm puzzled now as to where the information came from that suggests they sell a laser device. Have they withdrawn it perhaps ? El Pea I read an article about using laser as tinnitus therapy: "Transmetal cochlear laser (TCL) treatment of cochlear dysfunction: A feasibility study for chronic tinnitus" S. Tauber et all. Laser Med Sci (2003) 18:154-161 As usual the study involves few people without a control group, other papers on this topic describe contrasting results. I wasn't able to find a valuable study with positive judgment about laser therapy. Regards Mauro > this treatment is now being advertised in the UK in the form of a > walkman-like device.It is called a "Tinnimed" and is a "5mW medical [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > what do we think? >I read an article about using laser as tinnitus therapy: > "Transmetal cochlear laser (TCL) treatment of cochlear dysfunction: A [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> ---worth ?300 folks?? >> visit them at www.puretone.net what do we think? how about giving em a call? |
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