The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
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...
Clinic Referral Program
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: Announcement
Tags: referral program
Recently, AudioNotch has been getting a lot of queries about how we interface with clinics that might refer their patients who suffer from tinnitus to our service. We're increasingly making inroads into a broader interaction with the outpatient tinnitus treatment setting, and excited to work hand in hand with...
Tinnitus Treatment Paper: Gingko Biloba
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: gingko biloba Tinnitus
Gingko Biloba. Is it a natural cure for tinnitus? A double blind, randomized controlled trial is considered the gold standard in experimental design and the best way to determine if true causation is present (i.e. whether or not a real treatment effect is seen with a given therapy, in a medical context). This type of...
Testimonials Aren't Enough: Correlation Vs. Causation
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Testimonials have a long a storied history in the world of marketing. Indeed, you'll note that we display one on our landing page. For a variety of consumer products - say, for example, a type of cleaning agent - testimonials might be enough. They might sway you to make a purchase. However, in the field of medical...
Tinnitus Treatment Review: Homeoapthy
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 10, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Homepathic Cure. Tinnitus Treatment. Natural Remedy. These are the keywords that people are searching for when they're looking for tinnitus treatment online, and it's unfortunate. A great deal of tinnitus sufferers are desperate for any type of effective treatment. They're willing to try multiple therapeutic options in...
AudioNotch and D.R.M.
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 8, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Astute users will notice that the sound files for Tailor-Made Notched Sound Therapy have absolutely no digital rights management restrictions. This is intentional - we deliberately refused to put any type of digital locks on the files that we provide to our users. Why? The simple reason is flexibility - if a user pays...
Notched White Noise Free Trial
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 25, 2012
Categories: Announcement
Hi Everyone, I'm very happy to announce that we now have a free trial available for anyone to use. We're providing a brief sample of streaming Notched White Noise. We recommend that you tune your tinnitus tone as carefully as you can, and after you do so, listen to the Notched White Noise for 2-3 minutes, then take...
Tinnitus and Meditation
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 25, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and meditation
I make an effort to meditate daily for a variety of health reasons. Meditation has been shown to yield structural changes in the brain that help us to deal with stress and to improve our emotional regulation. There's a movement sweeping across North America right now which is advocating mindfulness meditation, a...
AudioNotch is a Treatment, Not a Cure
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 25, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
If you look around our web site and read our in-depth F.A.Q., you'll notice that we're very careful not to market ourselves as a tinnitus cure . Be extremely skeptical of anyone marketing themselves as such, since the threshold of evidence that one needs to meet in order to describe something as a cure is very high. As...
Tinnitus: The Volume Matters
Written by AudioNotch Team on May 25, 2012
Categories: Tinnitus
It's difficult to explain the suffering caused by tinnitus to someone who doesn't have it. In fact, many people suffer from a mild form of the illness, in which they can hear a faint ringing in silence (indeed, the prevalence of tinnitus in total silence is much higher than in the context of ambient noise). It's...