September 2014 Archive
Browse all posts from September 2014.
Barbra Streisand and Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 22, 2014
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: barbra streisand barbra streisand and tinnitus tinnitusb
Here's an interview where Barbra Streisand talks about her tinnitus: There's something important about this anecdote: Streisand acquired tinnitus years before her singing career, and despite that, became tremendously successful. This isn't to disparage the very real, and individually variable suffering of tinnitus...
The trouble with anecdotes: Desensitisation therapy for tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 22, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus desenstitation therapy
The trouble with anecdotes is that you can use them to prove anything. As in, literally - anything. The scientific method came out of the realization that proving causality (i.e. A causes B ) couldn't be done from anecdotes alone. Teasing out the causality from a single linear sequence of events is logically...
Celebrities with Meniere's Disease
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 17, 2014
Categories: Celebrities with TinnitusTinnitus
Tags: celebrities with meniere's disease Ryan Adams
Meniere's disease is an oftentimes debilitating condition that can cause bouts of intense vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss. Ryan Adams, a billboard top 100 singer, details his harrowing experience with this illness in US magazine: UsMagazine.com: Your last album of brand new material was Cardinology (with your band,...
How To Use AudioNotch with an Audiologist
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2014
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: audiology tinnitus audionotch audiology tinnitus audiology partnership
Some users seek us out requesting help with AudioNotch by having their tinnitus frequency determined by an audiologist. To do so, Request a tinnitus evaluation that includes an evaluation of your tinnitus frequency. Some, but not all, audiologists provide this frequency matching as a service. Plug the value in hZ that...
Lidocaine Patch Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: lidocaine lidocaine patch tinnitus tinnitus treatment
Lidocaine patches are sometimes used for pain analgesia, such as for diabetic neuropathic pain. They can be applied locally to the skin and then diffuse into the affected area. There have been reports that intravenous administration of lidocaine can relieve tinnitus temporarily, but lidocaine isn't the kind of drug...
Audio Notch Filter
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 5, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: audio notch filter AudioNotch tinnitus filter
What is the Audio Notch Filter and how does it work? Check out the following infographic below to see - focus in on Step 2: The notch filter cuts out one equivalent rectangular bandwith on each side of the tinnitus frequency. The notch filter is based on this study (please note: the Notched Music study used a larger...