Tinnitus
The types and frequencies of nonmusculoskeletal
symptoms reported after chiropractic spinal manipulative
therapy. Leboeuf-Yde C, Axen I, Ahlefeldt G, et al. Journal
of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, Nov/Dec 1999:22(9)
559-64.
Twenty consecutive patients from 87 Swedish chiropractors
answered questionnaires on return visits. A total of 1,504
questionnaires were completed and returned. Twenty-three
per cent of patients reported improvement in nonmusculoskeletal
symptoms, including:
- Easier to breathe (98 patients)
- Improved digestive function (92)
- Clearer/better/sharper vision (49)
- Improved circulation (34)
- Less tachycardia (13)
- Easier to urinate (11)
- Less ringing in the ears (10)
- Less frequent urination (9)
- Acne/eczema better (8)
- Dysmenorrhoea better (7)
- Asthma/allergies better (6)
- Less feeling of pressure in chest (5)
- Less double heart beats (3)
- More even pulse (3)
- Sense of smell heightened (3)
- Increased libido (2)
- Less testicular pain (2)
- More frequent urination (2)
- Reduced blood pressure (2)
- Less pain during sex (2)
- Numbness in tongue gone (1)
- Hiccups gone (1)
- Menses function returned (1)
- Cough disappeared (1)
- Double vision disappeared (1)
- Tunnel vision disappeared (1)
- Less nausea (1)
Spinal/cranial manipulative therapy and tinnitus: a case
history. Blum CL Chiropractic Technique, 1998; 10:163-168.
This
is the case of a woman who had been exposed to a high-decibel
noise at the loading dock at work and was unable to hear
anything for about 30 minutes. She later developed “ringing,
hissing, buzzing and warbling” sounds.
The medical doctor
told her that the sounds would spontaneously resolve in a
month’s time but they did not. She then
went to an ear-nose-throat specialist who prescribed medications,
which did not help. The patient was sleeping no more than
two hours per night and experiencing “crying spells” for
six hours per day along with unremitting tinnitus along with
neck and jaw tension.
Chiropractic care involved SOT protocols
for category 2, focusing on a sacroiliac subluxation that
correlates with TMJ, cranial and cervical dysfunction.
After
approximately 4 months care, she reported a 50% decrease
in tinnitus intensity. Sleep and neck/jaw tension has improved.
Co-management has now been undertaken with an ENT specialist,
a dentist and a psychotherapist.
The influence of atlas therapy
on tinnitus. Kaute Bernd B., International Tinnitus Journal
Vol, 4, No. 2, 165-167 (1998).
This was a study of 11 patients
with whiplash injuries. Seven patients received normalization
of vestibular disturbances, three improved and one was unchanged.
From
the abstract:
We present questions and thoughts of an outsider
on the proprioceptive input of the posterior small cervical
muscles to the brainstem as a source of tinnitus. After treatment
of whiplash injuries and other muscular conditions with Arlen’s
atlas therapy, some patients reported that their tinnitus
had abated with the muscular tensions. Atlas therapy has
been proven to slacken the muscles and seems to quiet to
normal levels of afferent impulses to the brainstem. This
has been proven to apply to nystagmus.
Arlen’s atlas therapy involves a high amplitude, low
velocity “impulse” to the “wing” of
the atlas. “No repositioning of the atlas is involved,
as is attempted by chiropractors, even though the impulse
has to travel in the direction of the reposition.”
“The
therapy influences the brainstem and normalizes a pathological
electronystagmogram.”
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