The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

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Tinnitus Cure 2017

For people trying to find a tinnitus cure 2017 may be the greatest year ever. There is more hope for an effective treatment for ever before. The difficult questions of tinnitus diagnosis and amelioration have been substantially answered in recent years. The precise vector of the syndrome, which is the derangement or degradation of the microscopic structures of the ear, cannot be directly treated at this time. However, great strides have been made in precise detection and diagnosis, and that means more effective palliative efforts than ever before.

For example, careful training and testing with a series of lab rats has provided some of the deepest insights yet into the tinnitus condition and the ways in which those who have it live with it. The anatomical structure of the ear is quite similar in both rats and human beings, and a tremendous amount of information can be gleaned from animal testing. The problem is that tinnitus is a subjective condition, presenting no trauma on the surface, so there have been great difficulties in measuring and quantifying the condition among animals. Precise post-Pavlovian methods of training and conditioning have yielded a population of rats that can be objectively tested for the presence of tinnitus. One of the most interesting things about the study is that they have proven the syndrome can be intermittent. There are days of the week when it might be worse than others, and there can also be wide variance from hour to hour. Certain types of physical conditions appear to trigger it, while others seem to ameliorate it.

There is also hope for a tinnitus cure 2017 from an unexpected quarter. Chinese medical practices have reported broad success in treatment of tinnitus, though the precise mechanism by which this is accomplished is not yet known. A team of researchers in Germany has carefully evaluated Chinese-based treatments on tinnitus and found them to be consistently efficacious. A placebo hypothesis probably cannot completely explain the relief experienced by patients using these methods, but there is an interesting possibility of progress that comes from the synthesis of Chinese and western medical traditions. Now that western science has found a reproducible way to measure tinnitus in certain animals, perhaps the placebo effect can finally be ruled out. That means that Chinese-based treatments can be developed that will work on these subjects, and the progress will be measurable by the western tradition. They can treat the experimental animals through this unexplored new tradition, identify which parts of the medical process are the most efficacious, expand their knowledge of the condition and work towards a partial or complete cure.