碩士 / 南華大學 / 自然醫學研究所 / 102 / Background: Tinnitus usually occurs in patients aged 40-70 years. The prevalence is about 30% for those over than 65 years old. Tinnitus patients often complain about different voices arising within the ears. Tinnitus can lead to sleep disorders, depression, frustration, irritability and cognitive interference; however, regular treatments usually dissatisfy physicians and patients.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of auricular acupressure and infrared-C (IR-C) hot compress on chronic tinnitus and develop an alternative treatment for tinnitus patients.
Methods: A randomized and single-blind design were carried out in this study to exclude the placebo effect. Four groups were classified including auricular acupressure (with semen vaccariae seeds) group, IR-C hot compress group, treatment combined auricular acupressure and IR-C hot compress, and the control group. There were 140 subjects recruited and 35 subjects in each group. The auricular acupressure points chosen in this study include shenmen(TF4), kidney(CO10) , sympathesis(AH6a), internal ear(LO6), infrared-C hot compress was placed on the head and neck regions. The intervention period was 28 days.
Results: The results indicated that auricular acupressure, IR-C hot compress, and treatment combined auricular acupressure and IR-C hot compress effectively decreased blood pressure, improve tinnitus distress (reduced tinnitus distress in the functional assessment, severe emotional scores and VAS scores), increased SDNN and improved the LF/HF ratio to the desired value.
Conclusion: Accordingly, auricular acupressure and IR-C hot compress can provide an alternative to patients with chronic tinnitus.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102NHU00067001 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Sheng-Wen Lu, 盧勝文 |
| Contributors | Chun-Chih Lin, 林群智 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 247 |
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