2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
10/24/2016 | 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM | How to Start a Tinnitus Evaluation and Management Program | BGPOP Building 4A/B/C
How to Start a Tinnitus Evaluation and Management Program
This presentation provides clinicians with practical guidelines and resources that allow them to begin to offer evaluation and effective care to their patients who have tinnitus. Tinnitus is a complex condition with multiple etiologies and manifestations. For most who have it, tinnitus is readily ignored. For many, it becomes a chronic, debilitating disorder that cannot be treated by surgical or medical interventions.
Tinnitus management can be effective at restoring a patient’s functionality and quality of life. If you are a clinician, a substantial number of your patients likely complain of tinnitus. If you are a competent clinician but never had much training in tinnitus management, you want to know how to start a tinnitus management program. What equipment, materials, resources, and collaborations do you need to start providing tinnitus evaluations and care?
Equipment present in most clinical settings and resources available online (even for free) can provide you with enough materials to begin offering help to patients with tinnitus. The majority of persons who are troubled by tinnitus can be provided relief with instrumentation such as smart phone apps and other devices available to clinicians.
Step-by-step direction for management of mild-to-moderate tinnitus conditions can be directed through guides like the Progressive Tinnitus Management system. As your program grows, you will need to build collaborative relationships with other professionals who can address parallel, confounding issues that act as obstacles to relief of tinnitus.
- Participants will learn about the epidemiology of tinnitus.
- Participants will learn about the resources available to them to help them start to provide tinnitus care in their communities.
- Participants will come to understand their roles and the roles of other professionals in caring for those with tinnitus.
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William Martin
(), National University of Singapore, entwhm@nus.edu.sg;
Billy Martin has a wide range of clinical and research interests spanning the fields of physics, hearing, neuroscience and population health. His training in the University of California system included audiology, speech science, linguistics, electrical engineering, medicine, neuroscience and computational physics. This was followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Technion-Technical Institute of Israel in auditory neurophysiology. He is currently professor of Otolaryngology at the National University of Singapore where he directs the Center for Hearing, Speech and Balance and the M.Sc. graduate training programme in Audiology. He is also a co-founder and the current co-director of the Dangerous Decibels international noise induced hearing loss and tinnitus prevention program with materials now in 40 countries. Billy has authored or co-authored over 650 scientific publications and/or presentations across his fields of interest. His current research projects examine community based hearing loss and tinnitus prevention in Native American/Alaska Native children, the neurobiology of deafness, hearing health promotion in Southern and Southeast Asia and developing a national hearing health strategy for Singapore. In his free time he is an avid surfer and water polo player serving as one of the coaches for the National University of Singapore national championship men’s and women’s teams.
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Jennifer Martin
(), National University of Singapore/National Hospital of Singapore, entjem@nus.edu.sg;
Jennifer earned her degrees at UC Santa Barbara, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and A.T. Still University. She currently coordinates the curriculum and teaches master’s degree students at NUS. Previously she worked as a senior tinnitus specialist at the Oregon Health & Science University. Her clinical interests include tinnitus evaluation and management, management of special auditory disorders and hearing health promotion. Her research interests include the treatment and measurement of tinnitus, hearing health promotion in tribal communities and noise-induced hearing loss prevention in children. She has been a certified Dangerous Decibels educator since 2009.
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