Rebuttal to reply by G. Rücker and G. Antes on Tass et al. "Counteracting tinnitus by acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation", Restorative neurology and neuroscience Vol. 30(2), 2012.

We would like to thank Dr. Gerta Rücker and Prof. Gerd Antes for their interest in our article “Counteracting tinnitus by acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation” and for their suggestions especially as the Cochrane collaboration has a long-standing track record for reviewing tinnitus therapies. Specifically, they found very limited evidence for efficacy of commonly used tinnitus therapies (www.thecochranelibrary.com) such as tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT, Phillips & McFarran 2010) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT, MartinezDevesa et al. 2010). Cochrane defines evidence as not limited to randomized controlled trials and metaanalyses but including the best available evidence at any one time encompassing all kinds of medical research, which can be also the result from basic