[Unmet medical needs in otorhinolaryngology].

Unfulfilled medical wishes and the resulting disappointments often have infrastructural causes and are the result of inadequate services or limited available resources in a medical practice. As annoying as these might be, they can hardly be influenced by the individual therapeutic competence of the ENT physician. The situation is different in the case of unfulfilled medical wishes of patients who cannot be adequately helped for a variety of reasons, whether because of the severity of their illness or because of the particular, predominantly psychosomatic constellations.

[S3-Guideline Chronic Tinnitus - Update].

Chronic tinnitus is a symptom of disturbed auditory perception. More than 90% of tinnitus patients suffer from hearing loss. Many people experience tinnitus and seek for treatment, but suffering and actual burden of tinnitus is individually very different, sometimes it disappears after a certain time even without treatment.

[Rational timepoint of medical rehabilitation in chronic tinnitus : Applying for rehabilitation options for a chronic course].

Chronic tinnitus is a common symptom of the auditory system. A causal therapy does not yet exist. The recommended treatment includes expert counseling, psychotherapeutic interventions, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy, and measures to improve hearing.

Interventions against hearing loss as an integral component of successful tinnitus therapy.

Tinnitus very often develops from acute or chronic hearing loss, mainly inner ear deafness. The frequency of the tinnitus mostly corresponds to the frequency range of the hearing loss and is enhanced by down-regulation of inhibition in the central auditory pathway for these frequencies, in addition to focused attention and enhanced arousal for the disturbing sound. Therefore, interventions to improve hearing such as mid-ear surgery or-more often-electronic devices including hearing aids or cochlear implants (CI) are important for the treatment of tinnitus.

[Interventions against hearing loss are an integral component of successful tinnitus therapy. German version].

Tinnitus very often develops from acute or chronic hearing loss, mainly inner ear deafness. The frequency of the tinnitus mostly corresponds to the frequency range of the hearing loss and is enhanced by down-regulation of inhibition in the central auditory pathway for these frequencies, in addition to focused attention and enhanced arousal for the disturbing sound. Therefore, interventions to improve hearing such as mid-ear surgery or-more often-electronic devices including hearing aids or cochlear implants (CI) are important for the treatment of tinnitus.