Tinnitus Help - Stop the Ringing in Your Ears

Researchers report that tinnitus sufferers who listened to custom-tailored music over the period of one year reported a significant improvement in their tinnitus — the ringing was not as loud — compared with others who listened to music that was notched at frequencies not corresponding to their ringing frequency. The music technique makes use of recent findings about a possible cause of tinnitus: that noise exposure actually rewires that part of the brain responsible for perceiving sound, and that behavioral training may reverse the problem. Patients simply chose their favorite music. Researchers modified the music by filtering out any frequencies in the music that was the same as the tinnitus noises. Patients then listened to this "notched" music for about 12 hours weekly over the period of one year. Read the full article here . Try Quietum Plus

TRT ( tinnitus retraining therapy ) combines retraining (perception modification) and sound enrichment (masking) in an attempt to achieve two goals: To stop a sufferer's negative reaction to the ringing in their ears. To lower and hopefully end the sufferer's perception of the noise. It is within TRT that the current school of thought that there's no cure for tinnitus is questioned. Advocates say that when a tinnitus sufferer is retrained successfully, it means that the person's awareness of the sounds in their ears is back to the level it was before the noise became a problem.  This is again going back to the idea that everyone has tinnitus ; the problem of the condition only crops up when a person (1) perceives the noise; and (2) the perception of that noise negatively impacts that person's life.  Unfortunately, these ideas in no way help those many tinnitus sufferers who have tried TRT (and many other therapies) and have not found relief.  However, it does i...