The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment 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.

Some of our users have asked us whether we have any audiology partners that will help users to determine their tinnitus frequencies for them.

Unfortunately, we don’t currently have any partners in this regard. Some audiology clinics do offer a tinnitus evaluation that includes tinnitus frequency detection (matching your tinnitus tone to a computer generated tinnitus tone while listening to the audio in a soundproof chamber). If you detect your tone, then you can … Continue Reading

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 lot of people who have unilateral tinnitus (tinnitus in only one ear) write to ask me if they should listen to AudioNotch in both ears, given that only one ear is affected.

The answer? Interestingly, you should listen in both ears even if your tinnitus is only in one ear.

It’s a counterintuitive answer.

The reason is because the experiments the therapy is based on treated people in both ears, even if they had unilateral tinnitus (tinnitus … Continue Reading

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 how many people does tinnitus finally just go away?

The scientific literature hints at the possibility:
Spontaneous remission by natural habituation is experienced by more than three-quarters of sufferers. Habituation occurs within the CNS, whereas adaptation involves a peripheral sensory organ.
However, habituation is not the same thing as tinnitus “going away.” So really, after searching the papers on the subject, I discovered that nobody seems to have studied the actual prevalence of … Continue Reading

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 notch is a segment of audio that is “cut out” of a sample of audio.

To understand what this looks like, check out the image below:

What is a Notch?

A 4 kHz notch is just a piece of sound energy that has been “notched out” at that specific frequency.

To learn more about the notching process, check … Continue Reading

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.

As far as I know, there are no effective treatments for multiple tinnitus tones. Almost all the research that has been conducted has been on people who only have a single tinnitus tone. However, in theory, AudioNotch might work with people who have multiple tinnitus tones. In theory, if the tones were far enough apart, you could create two separate notches for two separate tones, for example. Instructions on how to do that are … Continue Reading

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.

Check out the tinnitus talk Audio Player, which has a whole bunch of awesome tinnitus masking sounds.

By the way, in my opinion, that’s the best tinnitus forum available on-line – period. Check them out!

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.

Are you interested in masking your tinnitus? Check out our free masker here!

These sounds can be played through the player on the web page, or alternatively, they can be downloaded and saved.

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.

I’m not sure I’m sold on the actual efficacy of this, but here’s a description:
One recent development in this area is a therapy called Acoustic Coordinated RESET (CR) Neuromodulation, from the German company ANM. This therapy specifically targets a mechanism of tinnitus which ids thought to involve abnormal levels of synchronous activity in the hearing brain, where large populations of nerve cells repeatedly and spontaneously fire at the same time. The therapy is … Continue Reading