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Tinnitus After Acoustic Trauma
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus.
Many people have experienced some level of tinnitus, a condition where they hear sounds that no one else can. These sounds generally originate in the head or neck and can sound like ringing in the ears. For many people, the condition is a mild annoyance. For others, tinnitus can be a warning sign of serious hearing loss.
Acoustic Trauma
Often exposure to a very loud noise, like an explosion, can cause tinnitus. Sometimes the condition … Continue Reading
Best of Blog
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus.
Stories of Tinnitus:
The Science of Tinnitus:
- Tinnitus but No Detectable Hearing Loss? You May Still Have Hearing Loss.
- Does Tinnitus Go Away?
- Summary of AudioNotch Guest Posts
- Notched Sound Therapy – How Strong is the Evidence, Really?
How to Use AudioNotch’s Notched Sound Therapy:
Psychiatrist For Tinnitus
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus.
For people who live with tinnitus, the world is a place that never gives them peace. The ringing in their ears is always with them, and it can make their lives pretty miserable. Tinnitus is not a rare condition either. There are an estimated 50 million people suffering with tinnitus in the United States, and many of them despair of getting helpful treatment. The problem is that there is no medication that can … Continue Reading
Celebrities With Hyperacusis
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus.
Hyperacusis is a disorder that causes a person to be oversensitive to certain volume ranges and frequencies of sounds. People who have this disorder may have trouble tolerating everyday sounds. This disorder is often caused by frequent exposure to loud noise. However, hyperacusis can be also be caused by an ear injury, head injury or adverse drug reaction.
Most people who have hyperacusis also suffer from tinnitus, which causes ringing in the ears. There … Continue Reading
Tinnitus Sounds
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus.
A person’s tinnitus tone is a unique entity. As far as we know, people’s tones vary across a broad spectrum of human hearing in frequency.
Some tones are simple sine waves, which sound like “pure tones,” and they look like this on a graph:
Other tones sound like static “broadband” noise that is centred at a high frequency, which looks like this:
Notched Sound Therapy – How Strong is the Evidence, Really?
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus.
For the average person with tinnitus, making sense of the scientific literature on treatments is a difficult task. Without having a background in statistics or the critical appraisal of scientific papers, it’s easy to be persuaded by the efficacy of a multitude of treatments. Navigating this space is made even more difficult by the fact that the internet is flooded with misinformation and marketing copy on treatments that are demonstrably useless.
The tinnitus sound therapy … Continue Reading