Trauma-Associated Tinnitus and Hearing Loss
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2026 | Viewed by 1991
Editors
Interests: hearing loss; neonatal hearing screening; cochlear implants; vestibular disorders; bone conduction auditory devices; auditory-evoked potentials
Interests: audiology (hearing screening, hearing electrophysiology, cochlear implants, tinnitus); vestibular pathology and vestibular rehabilitation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hearing loss affects 5% of the world’s population (over 430 million people, with over 34 million being children). Bilateral hearing loss severely impacts people’s quality of life, either by affecting speech and language development in children or by affecting social life, self-confidence, learning, and job opportunities in adults.
Tinnitus by itself is a major issue and health problems due to its moderate response to treatment options and psychological negative impact on patients’ overall wellbeing.
Having both of these diseases is, of course, an even greater challenge.
One of the etiologic mechanisms behind hearing loss and/or tinnitus is trauma: physical traumatism (head/brain, temporo-mandibular joint, or cervical spine trauma) or noise-induced cochlear trauma.
One of the purposes of this Special Issue is to draw attention to hearing loss and/or tinnitus related to physical trauma, especially as in some cases (e.g., in comatose patients or severe orthopedic or neurosurgical post-traumatic lesions), hearing loss due to trauma is discovered late.
Regarding noise-induced hearing loss and/or tinnitus, prevention is key, and further studies on this pathology are needed.
We invite colleagues from across different medical specialties to submit research on trauma-related hearing loss and tinnitus to promote the further development of multidisciplinary networks and treatment options to enable the best possible outcome for each patient. All types of manuscripts are welcome, including full-length original articles and reviews (narrative and systematic, with or without a meta-analysis).
Dr. Sebastian Cozma
Guest Editor
Dr. Madalina Gabriela Georgescu
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- acute tinnitus
- chronic tinnitus
- tinnitus related quality of life
- traumatic brain injury
- cochlear concussion
- third window syndrome
- tinnitus management
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