title: Acupuncture for sensorineural hearing loss.
abstract: Forty children, aged 9 to 16 years, with severe and profound sensorineural hearing loss received acupuncture five times weekly for three out of four weeks for a period of six months.  The children had weekly audiometric evaluations.  There were no clinically important differences during and post acupuncture.
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000293:Adolescent; D001299:Audiometry; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003638:Deafness / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male