METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR TREATING TINNITUS WITH VNS PAIRING

摘要

A method of treating tinnitus comprising measuring a patient's hearing, determining the patient's hearing loss and the patient's tinnitus frequency using the measurements of the patient's hearing, programming a clinical controller with the measurements of the patient's hearing, selecting a plurality of therapeutic tones, where the therapeutic tones are selected to be at least a half-octave above or below of the patient's tinnitus frequency, setting an appropriate volume for each of the plurality of tones, repetitively playing each of the plurality of therapeutic tones, and pairing a vagus nerve stimulation pulse train with each playing of a therapeutic tone, thereby reducing the patient's perception of tinnitus.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a clinical controller providing therapy output signals including stimulation signals and sound signals; stimulator communicably connected to the clinical controller and receiving stimulation signals from the clinical controller; and headphones communicably connected to the clinical controller and receiving sound signals from the clinical controller, wherein the clinical controller provides a series of sound signals to the headphones and stimulation signals to the stimulator to relieve tinnitus symptoms.