Journal Reviews

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Hearing difficulties and memory problems

3 July 2023 | | Audiology - Adult | Hearing loss, health, memory, path analysis, Physical activity, psychosocial wellbeing

Since the Lancet Commission report in 2020, we have all been aware that untreated hearing loss is potentially one of the biggest modifiable risk factors for dementia in midlife. Hearing loss is also associated with other risk factors for dementia,...

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Effects of diet and exercise on tinnitus

4 May 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Otology, Tinnitus | Diet, Physical activity, Quality of life, Tinnitus severity, Weight loss

Subjective tinnitus is the perception of sound without any external stimulus. There is no consensus on the aetiology of tinnitus. Obesity is one condition that has been associated with subjective tinnitus. The authors conducted a randomised controlled trial to assess...

The hot nose

1 March 2018 | | capsaicin treatment, idiopathic rhinitis, mixed rhinitis, nasal hyper-reactivity, nonallergic rhinitis

Capsaicin nasal spray can offer moderate to significant symptomatic relief to 70-80% of patients with idiopathic rhinitis (IR). Efficacy was also shown in lab studies. Nasal hyper reactivity (NHR), absence of allergy / infective rhinosinusitis, age limits (18-60), no anatomical...

Voice impairment following spinal cord injury

1 January 2017 | | activity, communication, participation, speech, spinal cord injury, voice

Patients with cervical spinal cord injury face several clinical problems. One of the problems is voice impairment secondary to poor respiratory support. Their syllables per breath, vocal intensity and vocal quality are impaired. This paper studied the impact of the...