Case Study Medicine 2016

Acupuncture as a primary and independent treatment in the acute phases of sudden sensorineural hearing loss: Case Report.

Jin Y, Lu M — Medicine, 2016

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Summary

What Researchers Did

Researchers presented a case report detailing the use of acupuncture as the sole treatment for a 26-year-old woman experiencing sudden sensorineural hearing loss after she refused conventional therapies.

What They Found

The patient's symptoms and outcome measurements showed weekly improvement following acupuncture treatment. She achieved complete recovery of her sudden sensorineural hearing loss after the final week of treatment.

Canadian Relevance

This study has no direct Canadian connection as it is a case report from outside Canada.

Study Limitations

The primary limitation of this study is that it is a single case report based on self-reported outcomes, limiting generalizability.

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Study Details

Study Type	Case Study
Category	Sudden Hearing Loss
Source	Pubmed
PubMed ID	27368045
Year Published	2016
Journal	Medicine
MeSH Terms	Acupuncture Therapy; Acute Disease; Adult; Female; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural; Hearing Loss, Sudden; Humans

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