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CompletedNCT04641156Updated Feb 1, 2022

Effect of Physical Therapy Exercise Program and Low-Level Laser Therapy on the Treatment of Cervicogenic Somatosensory Tinnitus

An interventional study of Exercise Therapy program added to laser therapy in Tinnitus, Subjective, sponsored by Cairo University. Completed at 1 site in Egypt. Open to participants aged 45 Years to 55 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-02-01.

Sponsored by Cairo University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 11 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Dec 2018, registered Nov 2020).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
45 Years to 55 Years
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Study summary

To determine the effectiveness of adding a physical therapy exercise program to low-level laser therapy on the treatment of chronic tinnitus treatment

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Conditions studied

  • Tinnitus, Subjective

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In context

Tinnitus

412 studies on the registry are indexed under Tinnitus; 87 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 40 is below the median of 60 across 339 interventional studies indexed under Tinnitus.

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Lead sponsor

Cairo University is the lead sponsor of 4,780 studies on the registry; 1,427 are open to participants now.

Of its 36 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 5 (14%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
45 Years to 55 Years
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ranged from 45 to 55 years old both sex
  • Unilateral tinnitus
  • Stable tinnitus for at least 3 months
  • suffering from severe chronic non-fluctuating subjective cervicogenic somatic tinnitus (CST)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • tinnitus with clear ontological etiologies as perforation of the tympanic membrane
  • external otitis media
  • conductive hearing loss
  • patients with a traumatic cervical spine injury, tumors
  • Any history of exposure to ototoxic drugs/substances
  • psychotic disorders with auditory hallucination
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
40 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Low level LASER Therapy

    Subjects in this group received low-level laser therapy

    Other: Exercise Therapy program added to laser therapy

  • Experimental
    Exercise group

    Subjects in this group received additional planned exercise therapy program

    Other: Exercise Therapy program added to laser therapy

Interventions

  • OtherExercise Therapy program added to laser therapy

    a supervised physical therapy exercise program for the neck muscles in the form of manual mobilizations for sternocleidomastoid muscle and upper fibers of trapezius in addition to myofascial trigger point release

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. VAS

    Numerical estimates of tinnitus severity before and after treatment for both groups

    Time frame: 8 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Marwa Eid
    Cairo, 2011, Egypt
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 1, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04641156
Lead sponsor
Cairo University
Responsible party
Marwa Eid (Professor of physical therapy for surgery, Cairo University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Nov 23, 2020
Start date
Dec 10, 2018
Primary completion
Mar 5, 2019
Completion
Apr 1, 2019
Last update
Feb 1, 2022

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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