Tag: tinnitus treatment

25 posts with this tag

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...

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Tinnitus and Ketamine

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 30, 2018

Categories: DoctorTinnitusTinnitus ResearchTinnitus Treatment

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus and depression tinnitus cure 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. With one in five Americans suffering from chronic ringing in the ears, better known as tinnitus, there's no doubt this is a...

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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:...

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New Research on Notched Sound Therapy

Written by AudioNotch Team on June 6, 2017

Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research

Tags: notched sound therapy Tailor-Made Notched Music 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. Notched Sound Therapy is an ongoing area of clinical research. With scientists examining its therapeutic potential in...

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Tinnitus Treatment

Written by AudioNotch Team on August 16, 2016

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: 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. For those with moderate to severe tinnitus, the persistent ringing in your ears can degrade your quality of life. In some...

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Best of Blog

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 23, 2015

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: best of the blog tinnitus Notched Sound Therapyb 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. Stories of Tinnitus: Why Hope? And then it rained The Science of Tinnitus: Tinnitus but No Detectable Hearing Loss? You May...

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Lidocaine Patch Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on September 13, 2014

Categories: TinnitusTinnitus Research

Tags: lidocaine lidocaine patch tinnitus tinnitus treatment


Lidocaine patches are sometimes used for pain analgesia, such as for diabetic neuropathic pain. They can be applied locally to the skin and then diffuse into the affected area. There have been reports that intravenous administration of lidocaine can relieve tinnitus temporarily, but lidocaine isn't the kind of drug...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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US DOD Researching Medical Implants for Tinnitus

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 30, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: medical implant Tinnitus tinnitus treatment


Brought to you by AudioNotch , the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: Medical implants that offer a targeted drug delivery to the ear are a possible therapeutic model for treating tinnitus. The US department of defense is funding one such study that uses an implant to deliver a drug in a targeted manner: To...

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Music from Headphones is Causing Hearing Damage

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 18, 2013

Categories: Hearing

Tags: headphones hearing damage Tinnitus tinnitus treatment


Brought to you by AudioNotch, the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: A highly alarming survey from New York reveals the prevalence of hearing damage from headphone users : More people in the US are facing hearing problems due to blaring music from headphones of their mobile phones and MP3 players, a new...

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Loud Noises and Tinnitus - A Reminder

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 17, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: noise exposure Tinnitus tinnitus treatment


Brought to you by AudioNotch, the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: A disturbing story from California, where multiple people were injured in a horrific fireworks accident : At least 36 people were injured or treated at Simi Valley-area hospitals after a major malfunctionat a fireworks display sent...

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AudioNotch Summer Sale!

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 17, 2013

Categories: Announcement

Tags: sale tinnitus treatment


Brought to you by AudioNotch, the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: For a limited time, AudioNotch is pleased to announce its first ever Summer Sale , taking place from July 17th to July 21st. During this time period, AudioNotch subscriptions will temporarily be available at a significantly reduced price...

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What is Octave Confusion?

Written by AudioNotch Team on July 16, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: tinnitus treatment


Brought to you by AudioNotch, the leading Tinnitus Treatment program worldwide: Some people find the instructions on our tinnitus tuner to be confusing. Consider the following paragraph, which provides instructions on how to overcome octave confusion when determining your tinnitus frequency: Please note: When you think...

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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...

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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...

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Why Do Some People Develop Tinnitus After Hearing Loss and Others Do Not? (part 2)

Written by AudioNotch Team on May 30, 2013

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: Tinnitus tinnitus research tinnitus treatment


A lot of people are puzzled by the fact that even though two individuals may have the same level of hearing loss, some people will develop tinnitus and others will not. This suggests that people may have different underlying levels of vulnerability to developing tinnitus. We've posted about research in the past that...

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The Authors of the Notched White Noise Paper Are Collaborating With AudioNotch

Written by AudioNotch Team on April 17, 2013

Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus

Tags: Dr. Marco Lugli Notched Natural Sounds Notched White Noise tinnitus treatment


Although AudioNotch is an independent and academically unaffiliated corporation, we're in contact with the authors of the Notched White Noise paper, which you can check out in our science section . They've given us permission to publish some of the communication that's occurred to us, some of which is relevant to...

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Are AudioNotch's Prices Unethical?

Written by AudioNotch Team on March 14, 2013

Categories: AnnouncementTinnitus

Tags: development costs price gouging Tinnitus tinnitus treatment


Here's an e-mail we received from a user who was upset about what we charge for our tinnitus treatment service: Hello, I want to know and understand why you charge so much for this treatment? I understand that developing etc. has cost you time and probably some money, but nowhere even close to what you are charging....

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"Tinnitus Cure" vs. "Tinnitus Treatment" - The difference between the two, and why it matters

Written by AudioNotch Team on December 7, 2012

Categories: Tinnitus

Tags: homeopathy homeopathy tinnitus Tinnitus tinnitus cure tinnitus homeopathy tinnitus treatment


If you google the term "tinnitus cure" you'll run into a long list of treatments and remedies that are "proven" to "cure" tinnitus. The term "cure" is a loaded term - it is the strongest of all possible claims - it is a promise that a product will eliminate your tinnitus entirely . This claim is made despite the fact...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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