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Integrating Cupping Therapy in the Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is most often defined as a rapid hearing loss of ≥ 30 decibels across at least three contiguous audiometric frequencies over a time of ≤ 72 hours. Cupping therapy has been practiced across the world for thousands of years. Cupping therapy is practiced by cre...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089618/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226665 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7063 |
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author | Almusleh, Zainab A El Ansari, Walid |
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description | Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is most often defined as a rapid hearing loss of ≥ 30 decibels across at least three contiguous audiometric frequencies over a time of ≤ 72 hours. Cupping therapy has been practiced across the world for thousands of years. Cupping therapy is practiced by creating suction inside cups that are placed on predefined skin areas. Our case is a 48-year-old female with a four-year history of Meniere’s disease, recurrent tinnitus, episodes of dizziness attacks, and fullness of the right ear. The patient developed sudden sensorineural hearing loss. She received conventional treatment and wet cupping therapy as a complementary integrative treatment. After the integrative management protocol was completed, pure tone audiometry tests revealed significant hearing improvement across almost all frequencies. To the best of our knowledge, this case presentation is the first reported case of this type. A positive effect of cupping was reported in our case as an integrative complementary treatment. Large, well-designed quality clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of wet cupping therapy (WCT) as a complementary treatment of SSNHL is highly recommended. |
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spelling | pubmed-70896182020-03-27 Integrating Cupping Therapy in the Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report Almusleh, Zainab A El Ansari, Walid Cureus Otolaryngology Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is most often defined as a rapid hearing loss of ≥ 30 decibels across at least three contiguous audiometric frequencies over a time of ≤ 72 hours. Cupping therapy has been practiced across the world for thousands of years. Cupping therapy is practiced by creating suction inside cups that are placed on predefined skin areas. Our case is a 48-year-old female with a four-year history of Meniere’s disease, recurrent tinnitus, episodes of dizziness attacks, and fullness of the right ear. The patient developed sudden sensorineural hearing loss. She received conventional treatment and wet cupping therapy as a complementary integrative treatment. After the integrative management protocol was completed, pure tone audiometry tests revealed significant hearing improvement across almost all frequencies. To the best of our knowledge, this case presentation is the first reported case of this type. A positive effect of cupping was reported in our case as an integrative complementary treatment. Large, well-designed quality clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of wet cupping therapy (WCT) as a complementary treatment of SSNHL is highly recommended. Cureus 2020-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7089618/ /pubmed/32226665 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7063 Text en Copyright © 2020, Almusleh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Otolaryngology Almusleh, Zainab A El Ansari, Walid Integrating Cupping Therapy in the Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report |
title | Integrating Cupping Therapy in the Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report |
title_full | Integrating Cupping Therapy in the Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Integrating Cupping Therapy in the Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Integrating Cupping Therapy in the Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report |
title_short | Integrating Cupping Therapy in the Management of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Report |
title_sort | integrating cupping therapy in the management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a case report |
topic | Otolaryngology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089618/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226665 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7063 |
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