Can acupuncture provide benefits for patients diagnosed with the hearing disorder, sensorineural hearing loss?
Sensorineural hearing loss causes an increase in the pure tone audiometry of patients, leading to a decrease in word recognition scores.
A case report of a 61-year-old male patient presented to an acupuncture clinic complaining of significant hearing deficit in his left ear, which had persisted for 1 year.
After completing 21 acupuncture sessions, the word recognition score in his left ear advanced from a 64 to 94, and at a two-month follow-up showed no recurrence of hearing loss.
This case report’s finding show acupuncture serving as a promising treatment choice for improving word recognition scores in individuals suffering from hearing loss.
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