Tinnitus Improvement by wearing a Soft Cervical Collar
This is a report of one particular case with chronic tinnitus, considered untreatable, that rapidly improved with exclusive treatment by CC use. Thereafter, tinnitus was experimentally replicated by head inclination, the respective neck–head angles, and cerebral blood flow was measured.
Despite the chronicity of about 20 years of tinnitus and the lack of a painful CPS in this case, Martin Wieland was informed about a speculative therapeutic chance, intermittent short time use of Cervical Collar (CC). Though hesitating, eventually the patient treated himself as an outpatient by CC as recommended with customized Basko CC, size L 3¼. Yet, 20 min after wearing CC for the first time, the patient felt a slight improvement of tinnitus; after wearing the CC over 2 weeks as recommended, usually about three times a day, for 15–30 min each, the tinnitus was significantly less distracting; this treatment schedule was continued for further 2 weeks, then the tinnitus remitted completely.
Tinnitus cervical
Tinnitus can be triggered by cervical neck instability. Tinnitus can be triggered by cervical neck instability, TMJ-TMD can be triggered by cervical neck instability. ... Tinnitus can be caused by temporomandibular disorders. Temporomandibular disorders can be caused by cervical neck instability.
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The patient did not need further treatment courses thereafter. Nevertheless, occasionally a slight resurgence of tinnitus was observed, namely, with longer constrained postures when associated with tension in the head–neck region, especially with head inclination alike with postures B and C Improved subjective postural control and sometimes, partially renewed short-term application of CC (6 months after initiation of CC therapy about 1× for about 15 min every 2–4 weeks) led to rapid improvement of tinnitus after each CC application.
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