How to treat tinnitus caused by cervical spondylosis?

Tinnitus is one of the complications of cervical spondylosis. Tinnitus caused by cervical spondylosis is called cervical spondylosis tinnitus. Whether it is cervical spondylosis or tinnitus, it will bring great pain to the patient's body and mind. Therefore, it is necessary to treat and deal with this symptom in time to relieve the patient from pain as soon as possible. So, how to treat tinnitus caused by cervical spondylosis? The following article will introduce the treatment methods for tinnitus caused by cervical spondylosis in detail.

1. What is cervical spondylosis?

Cervical spondylosis is a degenerative cervical spondylosis that mostly occurs in the elderly. However, with the development of the Internet today, due to the increase in the number of office white-collar workers, white-collar workers who sit in front of computers every day are prone to cervical spondylosis. In addition, some white-collar workers get up at night, turn on their computers to "steal vegetables" and other activities, so the incidence of tinnitus caused by cervical spondylosis is increasing. At the same time, the occurrence of cervical spondylosis is accompanied by many complications, tinnitus being one of them.

2. What is tinnitus?

Tinnitus refers to the abnormal sound sensation that people experience without any external stimulation. For example, if you feel monotonous or mixed sounds such as cicadas, buzzing, hissing, etc. in your ears, there is actually no corresponding sound in the surrounding environment. In other words, tinnitus is just a subjective feeling. Tinnitus can be brief or persistent. Severe tinnitus can disturb a person's peace of mind and make him very nervous. If it is a short-term tinnitus that comes and goes, it is generally a physiological phenomenon. There is no need to be overly nervous and you can just leave it alone. If the tinnitus is persistent, especially if it is accompanied by other symptoms such as deafness, dizziness, headache, etc., you should be vigilant, seek medical attention as soon as possible, and carefully check the cause of the tinnitus.

3. Treatment of tinnitus caused by cervical spondylosis

A. Etiological treatment: This treatment is the first and most ideal medical treatment, but only less than 5% of tinnitus patients can be diagnosed and treated;

B. Drug treatment: including treatment of basic diseases and symptomatic treatment, the latter including reducing the impact of tinnitus on patients (such as antidepressants and antianxiety drugs) and tinnitus suppressing drugs (such as lidocaine, clonazepam and carbamazepine);

C. Masking therapy: It is currently the most effective method for treating tinnitus;

D. Psychological treatment: Use verbal and non-verbal communication and some methods to influence and change the psychological state and psychological disorders of the patient, so as to break the vicious cycle and treat tinnitus. Psychological therapy is one of the important therapies.

E. Electrical stimulation therapy: uses electric current to directly stimulate the auditory system to suppress tinnitus.

F. Combined treatment of tinnitus: There are many treatments for tinnitus, and it is difficult to determine which treatment is more effective. In addition to etiological treatment, combined treatment including medication, biofeedback, sound masking, and electrical stimulation is more reasonable, in order to shorten the treatment time, reduce the dosage of drugs with side effects, increase synergistic efficacy, and achieve more effective treatment of tinnitus caused by cervical spondylosis.