Manuscript submission / Evaluation
Click here to download Turk J Phys Med Rehab's ENDNOTE Style File
Authors :
Title :
Summary :
Keyword :
Open Access
Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1999 , Vol 2 , Num 2

Subjektif Tinnitus Tedavisinde Tens

Selami AKKUŞ 1 ,Mustafa Tüz 2 ,Serpil Savaş 3 ,Abdurrahman Arslan 2 ,Oğuz Bayazıt 4
1 Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye
2 Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Kulak Burun Boğaz Anabilim Dalı, Isparta
3 Department of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine, Isparta, Turkey
4 Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Fiziksel ve Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, Isparta

Tinnitus is a perception of auditory hallucination without environmental source of voice. Tinnitus which is rised from sensoryneurol system is called subjective tinnitus. Various therapies had been tried in tinnitus sucnh as TENS (transcutanous electric nerve stimulation). In our study, we applied TENS to the 30 ears of 22 patients with subjective tinnitus for 10 days. In 14 patients (46.6 %) tinnitus completely disappeared, in 6 patients (20 %) tinnitus partially improved. The response to TENS was better in patients with short duration tinnitus (P<0.01). As being simple, economical and safe, TENS is a reliable technique in management of subjective tinnitus.

 Keywords : Tinnitus, therapy, TENS