Case Study: Landmark Tinnitus Treatment by INM

[Greg Sacramento]

Successful methods like this may never become mainstream as it takes many hours of testing and examination by highly qualified professionals with proper education and training. Others and myself have posted links with very similar successful treatments for severe tinnitus. Researchers have found many successful methods, but it's all about $ for the medical community.

https://www.nervemed.com/case-study-landmark-tinnitus-treatment-by-inm/

 

[Bill Bauer]

it's all about $ for the medical community.

There used to be a poll about how much people would be willing to pay for a cure. I am having trouble finding it. In any case, I would imagine that most of us here would gladly pay an amount equal to all of our savings for a cure. So if the medical community were to want money, they could get an enormous amount of it by getting us a cure.

 

[Tinker Bell]

The linked case study was published in 2011. It states they had intended to soon publish their findings in a medical peer review paper. Wondering if that paper is available. Since it's been seven years, they should also have additional information about long-term prognosis/success with previous patients.

If it is a successful solution, proper data from the past seven years that supports its success could lead to the procedure being more commonly accepted by doctors — and insurance companies.

 

[Greg Sacramento]

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aaron_Filler2

Results are sometimes published in the Journal of Neurosurgery
This is not. I will need to search other neuro journals or medical journals as this
patient's treatment criteria is not neuro per say even as the doctor and his associations
are.

http://thejns.org/action/doSearch?displaySummary=false&AllField=aaron+filler

The problem is many insurance providers won't cover most non standard of care treatments and there are many excellent treatments that are not considered as standard care. One reason is that many doctors are old school or don't adopt new treatments - it gets involved.
Getting approval to cross over on referral is difficult.
Then many doctors of other networks won't accept cash.

 

[Bill Bauer]

I am not getting anything on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,48&q=mri+tinnitus+author:Filler&btnG=

 

[Greg Sacramento]

@Bill Bauer He has 10 pages of stuff on polofrog. I use 25 different medical search engines, but it would take time to do this. Place Aaron Filler into search within link.
http://www.pogofrog.com/index.html

 

[Bill Bauer]

When I add "tinnitus" to "Aaron Fuller", I am not seeing the study that we are looking for...

 

[Greg Sacramento]

Try placing 'facial nerve' or 'INM' next to his name. I'm in the middle of answering a message from my GP.

 

[JohnAdams]

The linked case study was published in 2011. It states they had intended to soon publish their findings in a medical peer review paper. Wondering if that paper is available. Since it's been seven years, they should also have additional information about long-term prognosis/success with previous patients.

If it is a successful solution, proper data from the past seven years that supports its success could lead to the procedure being more commonly accepted by doctors — and insurance companies.

This is all starting to look real shady to me. If there is a viable treatment for T then why are we still here?

 

[dayma]

Just because there are treatments/procedures happening does not mean it's on Google. I hope people are realizing this.

For my other chronic nightmare I am dealing with, there are a bunch of experimental procedure occurring that you can not Google and get any detailed information on.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Tinker Bell]

Just because there are treatments/procedures happening does not mean it's on Google. I hope people are realizing this.

For my other chronic nightmare I am dealing with, there are a bunch of experimental procedure occurring that you can not Google and get any detailed information on.

Just my 2 cents.

True, but a landmark case study published seven years ago in a medical peer review paper should have raised enough interest for information to be accessible online and created buzz through media articles. Of course, that's only if it truly was a successful and promising treatment.

As it is, the linked information is unfortunately of only one person's experience and there is not a lot of additional details regarding long term impact. The facility's site lists conditions they currently treat and tinnitus is not listed, which also might be telling. I'd think that if they felt it was promising, they would have continued to offer the procedure.

 

[dayma]

My advice would be to reach out to local Auiologist/ENT organizations or ATA to see if they can gather more info if interested.

There is just so much stuff not published or published in detail. Even the stuff that is documented is just scratching the surface of research. And, oh BTW, that's a GOOD thing! Right now Tinnitus is recognized as a multi-billion a year un-tapped stream or revenue per Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

 

[jeannie]

ENT Doctors here where I live don't care to know anything about tinnitus because they are not the ones suffering from it ☹

 

[Greg Sacramento]

If one researches medical search engines they will find many particular medical procedures for a condition that also happened to help (a) patient's tinnitus. Unless the medical condition is noteworthy and causing complications then treatment isn't always given. As in the above case with doctor association, his purpose is for certain physical conditions.

A minor condition such as being associated with a nerve without relationship to quality of physical life can be related substantially to severe tinnitus. If one has physical somatic tinnitus then a nerve may have involvement. I've posted many links showing which nerve treatments really help or can cure tinnitus. Susan Shore and other University studies have been using devices for muscle and nerve involvement, but other types of therapy may be needed for many with nerve tinnitus involvement.

There are many tests beyond a MRI or CT that may be needed to find a nerve condition. Cranial nerves, facial nerves and deep nerves of many classes can relate to tinnitus. I've heard many doctors say we can't form a team effort that may include dental history - do to time care limits and patient's insurance looking for a cause of a patient's tinnitus. This is unless they are having quality of life physical problems or a suspect disease is causing physical problems. Research and procedures are out there, but the medical care community caters to profit.