The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...
Veterans and Tinnitus
Written by AudioNotch Team on September 6, 2012
Tags: combat ear protection hearing loss Tinnitus veterans
Veterans, given their increased exposure noise-induced hearing damage, are at a significantly increased risk of developing tinnitus. Common exposure risks are typically explosions and gunfire. Being in the vicinity of warzone entails exposure to a variety of risks. Fortunately, various measures are oftentimes taken in...
The Dangers of Concerts Without Earplugs
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012
Tags: concerts earplugs hearing loss Justin Bieber justin biever Tinnitus
A lot of people might dismiss this story as farcical, even ridiculous. A lot of criticism has been levied at the prevalence of spurious litigation in the American court system. That said, there's little doubt in my mind that this woman's story is true : An Oregon woman has filed a $9.2 million lawsuit against pop star...
Pink Noise Enhances Quality of Sleep
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: sleep sound processing
New research indicates that listening to pink noise from a pair of computer speakers can enhance the quality of your sleep. Sound waves are still processed by the brain during a person's sleep: To see how pink noise would affect human sleepers, Zhang and his team recruited 50 people and exposed them to either pink...
New Evidence That Headphones Can Cause Hearing Loss
Written by AudioNotch Team on August 30, 2012
Tags: hearing loss Tinnitus
One of the most insidious forms of hearing loss occurs through what appear to be relatively benign objects: headphones. Headphones, when playing music with a high enough volume, can cause noise induced hearing loss. It's particularly concerning given that people use headphones on a regular basis. Youth in particular...
How Much Does Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) Cost?
Written by Adrian Green on July 26, 2012
Categories: TinnitusTreatment Review
Tags: tinnitus treatment tinnitus treatment options
Tinnitus retraining therapy costs about $3,000 for a 24-month course in the US, and Medicare and most insurers do not cover it. What drives the cost, what TRT involves, what the trials found, and what the alternatives cost.
How much does Neuromonics cost?
Written by Adrian Green 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...
Does AudioNotch Work For Meniere's Disease?
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 20, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: meniere's disease Tinnitus
Multiple people have asked us whether or not AudioNotch will work with individuals who suffer from tinnitus that is caused by Meniere's disease. UFC president Dana White is a notable celebrity who suffers from this illness. Wikipedia states : Ménière's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that can affect hearing and...
Blogging User Questions: A Cavalcade of Queries!
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 20, 2012
Categories: Announcement
Tags: questions
Hi Jagg, Thanks for your questions! How close to accurate must i be in judging my tinnitus tone on the slider? i know "as close as possible" obviously, but as i am not an audio scientist, i really don't know if "close enough" means within 5 kHz or 50 or 500. To determine the margin of error, check out this post:...
Blogging User Questions: Credibility
Written by AudioNotch Team on July 15, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: credibility fda Tinnitus
A user of ours has sent the following e-mail, voicing her reasons for skepticism about the efficacy of AudioNotch. Verbatim (with her identity removed), her e-mail reads as follows: I have had tinnitus for nearly twenty years and have spent much money trying various remedies. It appears to me that money is more...