The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
AudioNotch Releases Another Major Tuner Update
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 25, 2014
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: AudioNotch audionotch tinnitus tuner frequency generator tinnitus tuner
AudioNotch is pleased to announce another update to our highly popular free tinnitus tuner. Under the option "wave type," a new type of sound has been added. The new type of sound is "BB Noise," which is short for "Broadband Noise." Many individuals have atypical tinnitus tones which do not sound like the classic "pure...
Tinnitus Coping Course Launched in the UK
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 20, 2014
Tinnitus is a difficult illness for people who don't have it to understand. Articulating the particular flavor of distress to someone who doesn't have it is inherently difficult. Being "driven to madness" by noise is an affliction that can be difficult to garner empathy with - Van Gogh anecdotes aside. That's why it's...
DJ Paul Oakenfeld Urges Hearing Protection
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 18, 2014
Categories: HearingTinnitusUncategorized
Tags: paul oakenfeld Tinnitus tinnitus paul oakenfeld
If you know anything about electronic music, you'll know that Paul Oakenfeld is a huge name. One of the bigger DJ's from the 90's, he was one of the predecessors to the new Electronic Dance Music trend that's risen in recent popularity. As with any concert venue, the noise levels at such performances are always unsafe....
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...
More on the Michigan Research
Written by AudioNotch Team on February 6, 2014
Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research
Tags: dorsal cochlear nucleus tinnitus
There's a fantastic article available that provides a great overview of the research that's coming out of Michigan. We've posted on it before , but this particular research is exciting because it offers a possible avenue for treatment. Susan Shore, the senior author of the paper, explains that her team has confirmed...
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...
AudioNotch Releases Notched Natural Sounds
Written by AudioNotch Team on January 1, 2014
Categories: AnnouncementAudioNotchTinnitus
Tags: Notched Natural Sounds
Notched sound therapy can function with a variety of auditory inputs that are then processed to remove the notch at the user's tinnitus frequency. Many of our users have asked us about using ambient natural sounds that fade into the background while they are listening, and furthermore, are pleasant to listen to and...