Tinnitus Treatment - 3 Options

When a person suffers from tinnitus, a constant ringing in the ears, one of the treatment options available to them is learning to retrain the body and/or the ears through particular forms of therapy.

These therapeutic techniques show patients how to cope or live with tinnitus, include:

1. Tinnitus maskers
2. Biofeedback
3. Sound therapy

SOUND THERAPY

Sound therapy, one of the most common options, covers a wide range of coping techniques.

It is usually overseen by the patient's audiologist. The goal of sound therapy is to help patients focus on outside sounds or sounds other than the ringing in their ears. This can be done by retraining the ears what to focus on other sounds or "hear beyond the ringing" through concentration.

For particularly intense conditions of tinnitus, audiologists may need the help of a hearing aid or a sound making machine, sometimes called tinnitus maskers.

These aids help patients hear the outside noises or noises other than the ringing.

TINNITUS MASKERS

With tinnitus maskers, audiologists usually play a sound which will combat the sound of tinnitus. The sound is usually more pleasant, one that the patient is more comfortable with as background noise. It masks the tinnitus, but allows the patient to hear other sounds as well. When the tinnitus maskers are is in place, the patient is then retrained to listen for other sounds.

BIOFEEDBACK

Unlike sound therapy, biofeedback involves training the whole body (not just the ears) to cope with tinnitus. Working with the observation that tinnitus is made worse by stress, biofeedback attempts to teach patients how to recognize when their body is stressed and how to calm their bodies down from the stress.

This is done by attaching electrodes onto parts of the patient's body and allowing the patient to observe how their body reacts when they are stressed and when they are calm or relaxed. Usually, when stress levels go down, patients notice that the ringing level decreases. Coupled with helping patients hear beyond the decreased ringing, biofeedback is able to give a good amount of help to those suffering from tinnitus.

The helpfulness of these methods often depends on the intensity of the condition. Sometimes immediate relief or a good response to the therapy is seen immediately. Other times it takes several sessions or weeks of therapy before any relief is seen. Usually, through time, the patient does become more focused on noises other than the ringing, and are able to hear better.

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