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 method, comprising:
treating tinnitus via the actions of:
exposing a patient to a plurality of therapeutic sounds; andapplying a plurality of vagus nerve stimulation pulse trains to the patient, respective trains of the plurality of trains being in temporal proximity to respective therapeutic sounds of the plurality of therapeutic sounds exposed to the patient to reduce the patient's perception of tinnitus.