The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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How Much Hearing Loss is Acceptable for AudioNotch to Work?
AudioNotch provides Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy. One form of this therapy is Notched White Noise.
Notched White Noise has only been shown to work in individuals with less than 55 dB of hearing loss (the upper limit of moderate hearing loss). This does not necessarily mean that it cannot work in individuals with greater than this level of hearing loss, but it does mean that we cannot claim, from the evidence that we have, that it will work in people with hearing loss exceeding this threshold.
We have had an anecdote from a user who had severe hearing loss in … Continue Reading
Study Validates AudioNotch Tinnitus Tuner
A recent study has validated the efficacy of the “sliding frequency scale” tuner that is available on our web site (for free) to assist users in detecting their tinnitus tone. The study indicated that our tuner is comparable in effectiveness to the tuning performed by an audiologist in an anechoic sound chamber. Check it out here!
OBJECTIVES:
We investigated the accuracy of a web-based protocol for tinnitus frequency matching compared to that of tinnitus pitch matching performed by an audiologist using an audiometer in an anechoic chamber.
METHODS:
Twenty subjects underwent tinnitus frequency-matching in a random order using an audiometer in an … Continue Reading