However, health care providers and women have little information to guide them toward potentially helpful or effective apps. Women frequently access digital information throughout their pregnancy. We suggest future research addresses: the relative benefit(s) of one app over another, efficacy of tinnitus apps as a therapeutic option, long-term outcomes, and generalizability across populations.īackground: Mental health and pregnancy apps are widely available and have the potential to improve health outcomes and enhance women's experience of pregnancy. To place tinnitus apps in the context of current therapeutic considerations, an overview of the clinical presentation of tinnitus, and approaches aimed at mediating the perception of tinnitus and affective responses, precedes the review. Numerous apps (44.3%) presented sound menus, ordered into a virtual library of presumably beneficial listening options. Themes enabled further organization of related app characteristics into subgroups. Those apps retained for consideration (257) enabled 4 primary themes to emerge, featuring apps offering: (1) sound therapy approaches, (2) information, tips or assessment, (3) health promotion or alternative approaches, and (4) miscellaneous, non-therapeutic apps. Search parameters required apps to employ an English language format and feature the keyword " tinnitus " in the app name or description. A March (2016) search using platforms available in the Austral-Asia region yielded over 260 tinnitus-related apps. We reviewed tinnitus apps available via two popular smartphone operating systems: the Apple iOS and Google Android platforms. In the rest of 7 individuals, 2 showed no change in gross THI scores nor any improvement in perceived The study indicates that App based TRT regimens do provide adequate relief from distressing and debilitating tinnitus, provided the other factors contributing to exaggeration of tinnitus symptoms are controlled.Ī lack of evidence base presently exists, to validate the efficacy of mobile technology applications (apps) for tinnitus-highlighting a need for research. Of these 15 subjects, 9 reported improved and restful sleep post-TRT and in 5 subjects, there was a shift in perceived tinnitus frequency. There was a significant decrease in post TRT loudness matching as well as MSL for these 15 subjects. Patient was administered sound therapy via the Resound Relief App (available in play store/iPhone) with parameters conforming to those recommended in the original TRT approach of Jasterboff, and delivered to the patients from their smartphones via HiFidelity headphones. Tinnitus assessments were done, including Tinnitus pitch matching and loudness matching using conventional psycho-acoustical balancing procedures as well as minimum suppression levels. Study's aim to find if significant improvement occurs in tinnitus severity pre and post TRT using ReSound Relief app to deliver a customized sound therapy in combination with online counseling sessions. Under the pandemic-induced new normal situation where one to one close contact even during rehabilitative / therapeutic purposes must be kept at minimum, feasibility of web and app based therapeutic modalities must be explored. The Neurophysiological model provides a logical explanation as to both pathophysiology and treatment rationale of distressing, subjective tinnitus highlighting the importance of subcortical and cortical auditory areas as well as the auditory related limbic and autonomic nervous system.
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