Category: Treatment Review
Review of tinnitus treatments.
71 posts in this category
Testimonial from a new AudioNotch user
Written by Adrian on June 30, 2020
Categories: AudioNotchTinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: audionotch testimonial
We're always happy to get feedback from our users! Here's a recent email that we got from a happy user: No questions but I do need to tell you this, I thought I was going to go insane with Tinnitus, have tried numerous "low cost" initiatives in the hope it would abate on it's own. Well it hasn't and it won't but since...
AudioNotch review: does AudioNotch work?
Written by Adrian on May 5, 2019
Categories: AnnouncementAudioNotchTinnitus TreatmentTreatment Review
Tags: audionotch review audionotch success rate tinnitus treatment
To monitor the efficacy of AudioNotch's tinnitus treatment we send two surveys at one and two month intervals after purchase. In this post we go through the results of the surveys. Please keep in mind the following: The percentages are not statistically representative of the actual results that exist: fewer than 10% of...
Tinnitus Treatment in Homeopathy
Written by Adrian on November 26, 2018
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus TreatmentTreatment Review
Tags: homeopathy Tinnitus Cure in Homeopathy
Is there a tinnitus treatment in homeopathy? This is a question that many tinnitus sufferers have. You may be looking for a tinnitus treatment and homeopathy looks like it may help. We should first seek to understand what homeopathy is. Homeopathy was created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann (shown above). It's based on his...
Treatment For Ringing In Ears
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 23, 2017
Categories: AnnouncementHearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus TreatmentTreatment Review
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 sense of a “ringing” sound in the ears is referred to as Tinnitus. Tinnitus isn’t really an illness in and of itself. The...
Zinc Deficiency And Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 9, 2017
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus TreatmentTreatment ReviewZincZinc Deficiency
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. According to statistics, the hearing disorder known as tinnitus affects approximately 17 percent of the population. The...
6 Steps to Treating Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 24, 2017
Categories: AudioNotchHearingTinnitusTinnitus TreatmentTreatment Review
Tinnitus Causes Strange Sounds Inside the Inner Ear. If you have tinnitus, then the constant sounds inside your ear canals can disrupt your life. Tinnitus affects numerous individuals worldwide, but researchers are still trying to understand this condition. In many cases, the cause of the strange sounds inside the ears...
Evidence for Notched Sound Therapy: Does it Actually Lower Tinnitus Volume?
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 9, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: notched sound therapy Tailor-Made Notched Music Therapy Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy tinnitus treatment
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. Here's a summary of experimental research that has demonstrated a reduction in tinnitus volume with Notched Sound Therapy:...
Amazing Tinnitus TED Talk: "Help is on the way"
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 17, 2017
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Josef Rauschecker
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'd encourage all of you to watch this wonderful lecture from Josef Rauschecker, a tinnitus researcher with decades of...
Itunes Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 16, 2017
Categories: HearingTinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: Itunes 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. What Is Tinnitus? Tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, is a condition in which you hear phantom sounds that other people do not...
Tinnitus Terminator Sale Price
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 9, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus Terminator Sale Price
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. You no longer have to suffer from the constant irritation of tinnitus. Take advantage of the current Tinnitus Terminator sale...
Braunes Rauschen Download
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 2, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Braunes Rauschen Download
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. What Is Brown Noise? Brown noise is a type of noise that is used to soothe people. It can also be used to treat tinnitus....
Tinnitus Cure Very Soon
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 23, 2017
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus Cure Very Soon
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. According to a story reported by London's Express, there could be a tinnitus cure very soon. Scientists Believe They are...
Testimonial from a user in Japan
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 28, 2016
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
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. Keiichi, an AudioNotch user from Japan, sent us the following message: Thank you for offering us tinnitus sound therapy.I...
Best Treatments For Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 25, 2016
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: Best Treatments 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. If you have a job or a personal life that frequently places you in situations with loud music or noise, you may be suffering...
Mute Button For Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 24, 2015
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: Mute Button For Tinitus
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. If you are searching for a mute button for tinitus, you are not alone. Tinnitus is one of the most bothersome auditory...
Tinnitus Developments
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 24, 2015
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: tinnitus developments
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. Tinnitus is a hearing condition that is often referred to as a “ringing in the ears.” Though the condition is thought to...
Music To Block Out Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 18, 2015
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: Music To Block Out 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. More than 36 million people in the United States suffer from tinnitus that is characterized by hearing sounds within one or...
Mutebutton Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2015
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: Mutebutton 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. Tinnitus is a hearing affliction that affects millions of individuals. It manifests as a constant ringing, buzzing, or...
nouvelle treamtent des acouphènes
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 12, 2015
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: nouvelle treamtent des acouphènes
L'acouphène est un autre nom pour une sonnerie constante dans les oreilles. Alors que la gravité de la sonnerie peut varier, une personne sur cinq personnes est pensé à souffrir d'acouphènes. Cependant, il est pas une condition lui-même. L'acouphène est un symptôme d'une maladie sous-jacente, comme un trouble du...
AM101 Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 21, 2015
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: AM101 Tinnitus
A lot of people are interested in the AM-101 medication for tinnitus. Here's a roundup of some of the posts I've written on it: New AM-101 Drug for Tinnitus AM101 Phase 3 Buy AM 101 Tinnitus AM-101 Tinnitus Results
Tinnitus Cure 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 12, 2015
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus Cure 2014
There are several factors that can cause ringing in the ears, or tinnitus. In some cases, tinnitus will go away on its own after a very short period of time, but others will suffer from this condition for a lengthy period of time. It can range from being irritating or bothersome to rather debilitating in terms of...
Tinnitus Pillow
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 23, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus insomnia tinnitus pillow
Some of our users have e-mailed us regarding the possibility of listening to Notched Sound Therapy in their sleep. Would this work? What would be the efficacy of this? Although we don't have any clinical evidence that Notched Sound Therapy would work overnight, it's not necessarily an unreasonable thing to try....
Tinnitus and Vagus Nerve
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 20, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus and Vagus Nerve tinnitus vagus nerve vagal nerve stimulation tinnitus vagal nerve therapy
Here's an overview of our posts on vagal nerve stimulation for tinnitus as a therapy: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Tinnitus New Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Study Approved Promising Early Results for Vagal Nerve Therapy for Tinnitus Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Tinnitus Treatment Vagal Nerve Therapy Trial Recruiting...
Tinnitus may only be curable in an initial 6 week window
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: furosemide tinnitus
New research on animal models indicates that a commonly used drug, Furosemide, may be effective in treating tinnitus: Six-week treatment window Mulders’ research suggests furosemide is only therapeutically effective in the first six weeks after hearing loss, when auditory neurons appear hyper-excitable. “There is...
AudioNotch Testimonial
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 12, 2014
Categories: AudioNotchTreatment Review
Tags: audionotch testimonial
A user by the name of Anthony sent us this e-mail recently: Hi all, just want you to know that I have been treating (listening) to your notched white noise now for about 13 months, its only been in the last month that I am having more than 1 T free day a week, in the last 2 weeks Im experiencing 2-3-4 days in a row...
TMS Treatment Blog
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation rTMS TMS Tinnitus TMS Treatment blog transcranial magnetic stimulation
The subject of TMS as a treatment for tinnitus has come up multiple times on the AudioNotch blog. Despite promising early small scale studies, we've repeatedly reviewed evidence that indicates that TransCranial Magnetic Stimulation is an ineffective treatment for tinnitus: Tinnitus Research: rTMS rTMS for Tinnitus: the...
Is Tinnitus under-appreciated by the Canadian Military?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus veteran veteran tinnitus
A sad case of a veteran unable to acquire effective treatment for his tinnitus: The couple has tried desperately to get help for tinnitus, which is treatable. Back in 2008, Veterans Affairs’ own medical examiner acknowledged that Rainville has tinnitus, and since then, they have been fighting for funding for...
MDMA as Tinnitus Treatment?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 12, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: MDMA tinnitus MDMA tinnitus treatment
Not recommended, but interesting nonetheless: An illegal party drug could hold the answer tinnitus sufferers have long been waiting to hear. This week, an international conference devotes three days of expert discussion to tinnitus research, a condition which causes a constant and long-term ringing within the ear drum....
AudioNotch User Review: An example of when it didn't work out
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 4, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: tinnitus treatment user review
Below, I've reproduced a e-mail from one of our users. This user provided some really good feedback and I wanted the chance to discuss it. It's important for us to stress that we don't have a 100% success rate. Anyone who makes ridiculous claims like that is selling you snake oil. Below is an example of a user who...
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...
Meditation Fixes Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: meditation fixes tinnitus meditation tinnitus
Does meditation "fix" tinnitus? A new program called Mindfulness Based Tinnitus Stress Reduction has been studied as a therapy. Instead of directly attacking the volume of the tinnitus tone, this therapy indirectly targets our brain's negative reaction to the tinnitus percept. It's a brilliant technique that leverages...
Notched Out
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 9, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: Notched Music Therapy Notched out notched sound therapy
Tailor Made Notched Sound Therapy is created by "Notching Out" sound energy at and around a user's tinnitus frequency. Here's an infographic below which explains how it works: [caption id="attachment_526" align="aligncenter" width="300"] An overview of how to "Notch Out" audio from unprocessed audio[/caption] We...
Tinnitus Focused CBT Can Help You Cope With Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 22, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: CBT for tinnitus
Obviously, it's not a cure, but a new article in CNN referencing a new variant of CBT for tinnitus has shown efficacy in reducing subjective distress caused by tinnitus: The study, conducted in the Netherlands, involved 492 patients. Half received an audiological work-up and no other structured treatment, while the...
How to Help a Child With Tinnitus: Birdsongs
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 13, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus birdsong masker tinnitus masker
Dealing with children who have developed tinnitus is a challenge. There's just not that much data out there in the scientific literature about how to help them. An eleven year old boy in the UK had particularly difficulty with insomnia: An 11-year-old with severe tinnitus is finally able to get a good night’s sleep...
Meditating with Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 29, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: meditating with tinnitus tinnitus and meditation
Below is an excerpt from a great article written by a tinnitus sufferer on how to meditate with tinnitus. As a tinnitus sufferer herself, the author can speak to the difficult daily reality of a person suffering from tinnitus. I think this another example of why the internet is such a powerful advocacy tool for people...
New AM-101 Drug for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 15, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: AM-101 tinnitus new tinnitus drug Tinnitus
One of the challenging things for patients who acutely develop tinnitus is the absence of therapeutic interventions available in the acute phase (i.e. shortly after a person develops tinnitus in a rapid fashion). Current theory surrounding the pathophysiology of tinnitus is that there is a "therapeutic window" in the...
Cure for Tinnitus 2014
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 10, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Cure for tinnitus 2014 stemc ells Tinnitus
It's definitely a headline-grabbing title: "Cure for Tinnitus 2014." What are we talking about here, exactly? What kind of research is going on right now that could push us closer to a cure? About a year ago I had an elective with a professor in Tinnitus research at McMaster University, and I asked him - if we could...
Sound Therapy Music
Written by AudioNotch Team on April 3, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: Notched Music notched sound therapy Sound Therapy Music
Is there such a thing as Sound Therapy Music for tinnitus? The term can be used interchangeably with "Notched Music," "Notched Music Therapy," and other terms. Originally discovered by Christo Pantev's German lab, other experiments have shown efficacy with Notching other sounds as well, such as white noise. To read...
TMS Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 27, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: rTMS tinnitus and TMS TMS Tinnitus
TMS, as it is colloquially referred to (or Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, which is the proper term) has recently been investigated as a possible treatment avenue for tinnitus. A lot patients get excited about TMS & tinnitus, but the results have not been good. People are attracted to TMS because it's...
Tinnitus Treatment NYU
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 18, 2014
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: acupuncture tinnitus natural tinnitus treatments NYU Langone Medical Center tinnitus treatment nyu
Lots of patients in the New York area search for tinnitus treatment available at NYU. The NYU Langone Medical Center has a series of helpful articles for people searching for "tinnitus treatment NYU" that I'll offer some brief recaps below for: NYU's medical center on homeopathic treatments for tinnitus: A 12-week,...
Tinnitus Masker
Written by AudioNotch Team on March 11, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus masker
AudioNotch is happy to announce that our tinnitus masker is now available on mobile! We've successfully re-engineered it to work on all web browser platforms. A tinnitus masker is a useful tool for those of you who are looking for an auditory sleep aid or some type of ambient background music. Many of you find it...
Doctors and Tinnitus Treatment Options
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 11, 2014
Categories: AnnouncementTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus treatment options
Based on the anecdotes I've received from a lot of AudioNotch users, I've come to believe that many physicians are not very well versed in the treatment options available for tinnitus and the level of research behind them. Consider the following response to a patient's query on a popular "Ask the Doctor" column: Dear...
Another Paper from the Pioneers of Notched Music Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 4, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Notched Music Notched music therapy tinnitus
The original discoverers of Notched Music therapy have released another paper that provides an excellent theoretical overview of the conceptual underpinnings of the therapy. Rather than rehash what the authors have already done a great job of writing about, I'll post the abstract below: Over the past 15 years, we have...
Possible Treatment for Meniere's Disease Found
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 9, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: meniere's disease migraines Tinnitus vascular disease vascular risk factors
http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/newsroom/newsreleases/Pages/How-to-treat-Menieres-disease.aspx New research illuminates a possible understanding of the pathophysiology behind Meniere's Disease: Researchers at University of Colorado School of Medicine may have figured out what causes Meniere’s disease and how to attack...
New U of M Study Offers Promise in Developing Therapy for Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 7, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: neuroplasticity research Tinnitus tinnitus developments tinnitus research
Fascinating research from the University of Michigan has illuminated some amazing new results: She explains that in tinnitus, some of the input to the brain from the ear’s cochlea is reduced, while signals from the somatosensory nerves of the face and neck, related to touch, are excessively amplified. “It’s as if the...
Laser Therapy as a Treatment for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 2, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: laser therapy for tinnitus tinnitus review tinnitus treatment
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, because I can't postulate a mechanism for why this might work. But consider the following description of a tinnitus treatment: Subjects in the intervention group underwent laser therapy for 20 sessions, every other day, 20 minutes each session, which was a combination of...
What About Failed Drug Treatments for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 31, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus treatment L-baclofen
One of the issues plaguing scientific research is the tendency to avoid publishing negative study results - i.e. if something DIDN'T work, people are far less prone to publish a scientific paper about it. That's why it's heartening to see research like this, on why L-baclofen doesn't appear to work in animal models of...
A story from an AudioNotch User
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 24, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: audionotch review seniors and tinnitus
We love to publish stories from AudioNotch users who have had their tinnitus volume reduced with AudioNotch. Here's one from a senior user of ours who asked that his name be redacted: A little history. My tinnitus came on like a loaded freight train. In one day it came on full strength, no warnings, no gradual increase...
AudioNotch Review & Success Rate Data - One Month and Two Month Surveys
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 20, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementAudioNotchHearingTinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: AudioNotch audionotch review audionotch success rate tinnitus treatment
For a long time, our users have asked us about the success rate of AudioNotch. And for a long time, we'd told them the truth: we don't actually have this data, because not enough people respond to our internal surveys about the efficacy of our tinnitus treatment. Basically, a small percentage of our users respond to...
UK Professor Discusses Tinnitus Treatment Options
Written by AudioNotch Team on December 10, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
A professor in the UK has discussed some of the challenges in providing comprehensive tinnitus care to patients: Professor Berthold Langguth, a leading researcher on tinnitus, visited Gibraltar this week to give a series of lectures and advise the health sector on tinnitus. In an interview with the Chronicle Professor...
Are Hearing Aids Useful in Managing Tinnitus in Individuals with Hearing Loss?
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 7, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: hearing aids and tinnitus
A review of the available evidence came to the conclusion that there is some evidence that hearing aids can help in the management of tinnitus, however, more research needs to be done in order to reach definitive conclusions. Hearing aids are oftentimes used in the management of tinnitus because they are Results:...
Tinnitus Treatment and Fraud
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 31, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: tinnitus deception tinnitus fraud
Anyone passingly familiar with the tinnitus treatment space knows that there is a high prevalence of treatments that are not based on scientific evidence, or are simply outright frauds. This high prevalence of bogus treatments is attributable to the fact there there is no present tinnitus cure, and fraudsters attempt...
rTMS for Tinnitus: A Discouraging Study
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 29, 2013
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: rTMS rTMS tinnitus treatment transcranial magnetic stimulation tinnitus
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a treatment that has been tested for tinnitus. There has been some promising literature with guided rTMS in the past. In the procedure, a magnet is used to modify neurons non-invasively, by holding it over a patient's head. The technology has been used to treat...
New Guest Article on DJ Tech Tools about Tinnitus Treatments
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 25, 2013
Categories: Tinnitus ResearchTreatment Review
AudioNotch has written a guest article on the DJ Tech Tools blog about tinnitus treatments. Check it out!
New Press on ACR Tinnitus Treatment
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 13, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: Acoustic Coordinated Reset British Tinnitus Association Tinnitus tinnitus cure UK tinnitus
Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: Here's another press article on Acoustic Co-ordinated Reset Therapy for tinnitus. The study funded by the corporation yielded promising results, but the British Tinnitus Association wants to see a larger, independently funded study: Trials...
How good is the scientific evidence for AudioNotch? And What About Homeopathy?
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 8, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: evidence based medicine homeopathic tinnitus treatment Tinnitus tinnitus and homeopathy tinnitus treatment
Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: In Evidence Based Medicine, there exists a hierarchy of evidence. This means that the higher a particular treatment is in the hierarchy, the more likely it is to actually be effective in real life. As you go higher and higher in the...
Is There a Treatment for Tinnitus?
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 1, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: homeopathic tinnitus treatment homeopathy Quietus Tinnitus
Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: There's an excellent blog that I recommend many of you read - it's called Science Based Medicine . It's a blog advocating the use of scientific plausibility to evaluate the prior probability of a given treatment being effective, and not...
Does AudioNotch Work in Your Sleep? What Headphones Should You Use?
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 15, 2013
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: AudioNotch pillow speakers sleep headphones tinnitus treatment
Brought to you by AudioNotch, the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: AudioNotch users often e-mail us wondering whether or not it would be beneficial for them to use our product during their sleep cycles. We have some positive anecdotes of this working well, however, we do not have scientific evidence of...
Existing Epilepsy Drug Could Treat Acute Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 11, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitusTreatment Review
Scientific research into tinnitus continues to yield fruitful results. The pathophysiology of tinnitus has been studied from many directions and conceptualized in many ways. An interested approach has been taken at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine : The team focused on an area of the brain that is home...
Drug to Treat Acute Tinnitus Moving Forward in Approval Process
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 6, 2013
Categories: AnnouncementTinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus treatment treatment of acute tinnitus
Here at AudioNotch, we strongly believe in the promise of science for treating tinnitus. In terms of "curative" therapies - and we use the term "tinnitus cure" very carefully - a good target for pharmacological therapy is the brain shortly after the development of acute changes (before the neurological changes become...
Tinnitus Treatment Research: Memantine Drug Therapy
Written by AudioNotch Team on November 7, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: memantine tinnitus treatment
An interesting new paper has shown evidence that the administration of memantine, a drug that block NMDA-type glutamate receptors , may reduce the volume of chronic tinnitus. The research was performed in animals, although tinnitus response was measured by an indirect correlate (tinnitus-associated behaviour). Click...
Stem Cells as a Tinnitus Treatment?
Written by AudioNotch Team on October 5, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: research stem cells Tinnitus
There are many possible avenues for a total tinnitus cure (i.e. a complete cessation of all tinnitus symptoms). We've posted before on the positive results of using stem cells to restore hearing following the death of cochlear hearing cells. Most people have sensorineural tinnitus induced by hearing loss, so...
Andy Techie Endorses AudioNotch
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 24, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: Andy Techie testimonials
Andy Techie is an avid music fan and runs " The Audio Blog ": Music from around the hood..All heard in and around Ditmas Park Brooklyn, NYC and recorded live! On his blog, he hosts a radio show, and one of the topics he has discussed on his radio show is tinnitus . Andy has had a very positive experience with...
AudioNotch Review: Some of Our Positive Testimonials
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 24, 2012
Categories: Treatment Review
Tags: AudioNotch audionotch review tinnitust treatment
Although we think the scientific experiments conducted are the best evidence for the efficacy of AudioNotch, we understand that prospective customers like to see testimonials from people who have experienced a therapeutic benefit. A couple are listed as follows: Audio Notch helped me with my tinnitus, It has a lot a...
Controversy About Un-Notched White Noise in Tinnitus Treatment
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 19, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: cochrane review Tinnitus tinnitus masking therapy white noise
There's been a great deal of controversy about the actual utility of tinnitus maskers as a treatment for tinnitus (not as a mere coping aid, which is basically a completely subjective, non-scientific term. Our tinnitus masker is intended only for use as a coping aid). So what do you when you have conflicting evidence...
Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Tinnitus Treatment
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 8, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus treatment
An exciting new avenue for research is Vagal Nerve Stimulation ( click here to see a wikipedia article on the Vagus Nerve). Consider the following: In another paper in the journal Experimental Neurology , Kilgard led a team that paired vagus nerve stimulation with audio tones of varying speeds to alter the rate of...
How much does Tinnitus Retraining Therapy cost?
Written by Adrian on July 26, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) is a tinnitus treatment that seeks to help people cope with their tinnitus through habituation. It was first proposed in 1993, making it much older than notched sound therapy, which was proposed in 2009. So how much does tinnitus retraining therapy cost? That depends on the clinic that...
How much does Neuromonics cost?
Written by Adrian on July 26, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
One thing that we get asked a lot at AudioNotch is: are we like Neuromonics? AudioNotch is different from Neuromonics in several ways. We use notched sound therapy, which is a new form of tinnitus treatment, and is based on completely different principles. We also charge a lot less than Neuromonics. How much does...
Causes of Pulsatile Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 28, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
In an earlier post, we discussed the importance of determining whether or not your tinnitus is pulsatile, since pulsatile variants may be more amenable to successful treatment and cure. Here is a link to another article on pulsatile tinnitus (it's a journal article, so you may have difficulty accessing the paper and...
Tinnitus Research Paper: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: rTMS tinnitus treatment
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy (also known as rTMS) is a relatively new technology that has been used to treat a variety of brain based disorders, such as depression. It involves using a device to magnetically stimulate the brain non-invasively. Here is a link to an abstract of a paper that found...
Tinnitus Treatment Paper: Lidocaine
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: lidocaine Tinnitus tinnitus treatment
Here is a link to an abstract on a paper about the effects of Lidocaine on tinnitus. Lidocaine is a medication that is used as a local anesthetic and an anti-arrhythmic agent (suppressing cardiac arrhythmia) . Via brain imaging, it was found to produce both increases and decreases in the loudness of tinnitus. This...