Agopuntura per l’immediato sollievo del tinnito (pubblicazione)

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[Article in Portuguese]
Okada DM, Onishi ET, Chami FI, Borin A, Cassola N, Guerreiro VM.
UNIFESP-EPM.

The treatment of tinnitus, which is defined as conscientious perception of a sound originated in the ears or nervous system, represents until the current days a great challenge. The use of Acupuncture (ACP) is based on the stimulation with needles of specific points on the human anatomy. A prospective, randomized and double-blinded study was carried through in 76 patients taken care of in the Clinic of Tinnitus of the Department of Otorhinolaringology and Head and Neck Surgery of the UNIFESP-EPM in the period understood between April and June of 2005. All the patients had humming complaint and had been submitted to clinical anamnese, physical examination and subsidiary exams in order to investigate its etiology. The patients then were directed to a first researcher that determined an initial numeric value of the humming through Visual Analoge Scale(VAS), varying from 0 to 10 points. After this, had been directed for another room in which an acupuncturist doctor, who did not have access to the initial evaluation, separated the patients in Group Control and Group Study according to the attendance order, in alternating way. The ACP point used in patients of the Group Study places 6,5 cm above of the apex of the auditory pavilion in the parietal region. The point used in the Group Control places 3 cm above of the previous point, in the same vertical line. Then they had been sent back to the initial room for a new evaluation by the first researcher, where they had been guided to redefine the subjective score of the humming. Among the 76 studied patients, 29 were male (38,2%) and 47 female (61,8%), with average age 56,9 + 12,0 years. The Groups Study and Control had counted on 38 patients each. Through the Anova test it was evidenced that it had significant difference (p<0,001) between the moments pre and post needling and that in the group Study this improvement is more evident (p=0,0127). The t-independent test showed that it had a significant difference (p=0,017) between the two moments in the groups Study and Control. We conclude that there was significant reduction of the counting of the moments pre and post needling in both the groups, and in the group study the reduction is greater that in the group control.

PMID: 16951850 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Agopuntura per l’immediato sollievo del tinnito. Portogallo

Il trattamento del tinnito rappresenta oggi una GRANDE SFIDA !!!
76 pazienti trattati tra aprile e giugno 2005.
Anamnesi clinica, esami, e poi indirizzati ad un primo ricercatore che ha stabilito l’intensità del loro tinnito su una scala da 1 a 10. Poi i pazienti si sono recati dall’agopuntore che non  aveva alcune informazioni sui pazienti e  li ha divisi in 2  gruppi: controllo e studio.
l’applicazione dell’agopuntura ai pazienti del gruppo studio  avviene a 5-6 cm al di sopra del padiglione uditivo nella ragione parietale. Nel gruppo controllo invece avviene a 3 cm dallo stesso punto. I pazienti sono poi stati rimandati al primo ricercatore che aveva stabilito l’intensità iniziale del loro tinnito.I 76 pazienti erano divisi tra 29 maschi e 47 donne tra i 60 e 12 anni. Ogni gruppo contava 38 pazienti. Un test ha dimostrato un miglioramento tra prima e dopo l’applicazione dell’agopuntura e che il miglioramento era maggiore nel gruppo studio.
 

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In allegato il documento originale dell’Università di San Paolo del Brasile che ha condotto la sperimentazione.
Vengono descritti in dettaglio i test condotti. La breve descrizione degli strumenti adoperati e le figure consentono anche di capire il significato dei valori riportati  (che Anita, giustamente, non ha tradotto).