Tinnitus Treatment, Remedies and Cures

Depending on which doctor you speak to, there are several different forms of tinnitus treatment if you’re suffering with ringing in the ears – some are more effective than others, and some take effect quicker than others (and unfortunately some are just “snake oil” potions). Having said that, one man has developed a very effective, clinically proven system, to cure the ringing in ears, that has over forty five thousand hours of medical research behind it. Named simply the Tinnitus Miracle, it covers simple yet effective and permanent tinnitus treatment options. Check out the video below where we review Tinnitus Miracle and discuss everything it contains.

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Some cases of ringing in the ears resolve when the individual is taken off a particular medication or they undergo surgery or some other form of non related tinnitus treatment for the cause of the noises. However, in most cases, the root cause remains a mystery, so it’s difficult to prescribe a specific tinnitus treatment for it – even if one existed.

It’s fortunate that many people learn, over time, to adapt to the continual head noises. They can still hear the sounds of buzzing or ringing in the ears, but rarely pay attention to them and emotionally accept that the noises are an unalterable part of their lives. Such ‘habituation’ need not take several years to achieve; it can actually be arrived at by a tinnitus treatment known as tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT), used in conjunction with counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

Tinnitus Retraining Therapy – A Long Term Tinnitus Treatment

Tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) was developed by American scientist Dr Pawel J. Jastreboff in the 1980s as a natural tinnitus treatment, and has proved invaluable for those who have the condition and no cause can be identified. This tinnitus therapy uses a combination of education, masking (sound therapy) and counseling and is focused on bringing about tinnitus habituation. Tinnitus retraining therapy is now taught at tinnitus treatment clinics throughout the Western world. Studies have shown that the technique is a successful treatment of tinnitus in up to 60 per cent of cases – ‘successful’ meaning that the head noises and ringing in the ears no longer cause unbearable irritation and stress. Of this number, less than 20 per cent experience total tinnitus relief.

Individual Perceptions Of Sound

In the area of the brain concerned with hearing – beyond the inner ear but before the conscious perception of sound takes place – there are networks of nerve cells that work as filters and are constantly on the lookout for threats. They allow you to pick out the sound of your own name, a car horn in traffic or your new baby stirring and ignore the ticking of a clock, the sound of distant traffic or the hum of the factory down the road.

Whether a sound creates ultra-awareness and anxiety or not depends on a person’s subconscious reaction to it. We are all quite different in the sounds we perceive as threats. For instance, whereas to some the frequent loud music of next-door neighbors may be viewed as a stressful imposition that is jeopardizing their emotional and psychological health, others may view it as the happy sounds of people enjoying themselves and so can switch off their conscious minds to it. Of course, the first group of people will constantly monitor the loud music and find themselves becoming irritable, anxious, nervous and depressed. The second group of people, however, will be no worse off as a result of their neighbors’ thoughtlessness.

Removing The Sense Of Threat

If using tinnitus retraining therapy as a tinnitus treatment, you are taught that if no underlying problem has already been found, your ringing in the ears and head noise results from a harmless chain of events rather than a dreadful disease or irreversible ear damage. As a consequence, the threatening aspect of tinnitus is usually removed and habituation can occur, allowing what you hear due to the condition to become just another of the many meaningless sounds you hear throughout a 24-hour period.

With tinnitus retraining therapy you will also receive guidance on how to change your instinctive adverse reaction to the noises, which eradicates stress and allows normal life to resume. Indeed, rather than viewing their tinnitus as an enemy, some people claim that the therapy allows the condition to be seen as a friend they don’t mind having in their lives. As an added bonus, because the nerve niters have stopped monitoring the head noises, they are actively heard less often and do not seem as loud as before.

Tinnitus retraining therapy clinics are not yet widely available as a tinnitus treatment, but it’s hoped that they soon will be. In the meantime, these tinnitus treatment techniques are being used at an increasing number of audiology and ENT departments worldwide. Currently, hundreds of audiology professionals are attending TRT training courses every year.

Habituation As A Tinnitus Treatment

When a persistent stimulus is present, such as the clothes on our bodies, we are aware of the sensation of them touching us when we first get dressed, but soon come to ignore it and get on with our day. This phenomenon is called ‘habituation’ – a normal reaction to any persistent stimulus. Where our clothes are concerned, our skin receptors continue to send signals to the brain about the sensation of them touching our skin, but we learn to disregard these signals out of self-preservation. Being aware of the feel of our clothes all day would be most distracting – even disturbing.

The same thing happens to anyone who leaves school and starts work in a noisy factory or moves from the countryside to live by a busy road. At first, the noises appear very loud and are intensely disliked, but gradually you get used to them and the perception of the sounds is less prominent.

The final stage of the habituation tinnitus treatment occurs when you stop monitoring the sounds and fail to respond to them, only actively hearing them from time to time, perhaps when you are feeling more tired or stressed than usual. It wouldn’t be safe for the sounds to be totally eradicated from your perception, as a warning of danger might then be missed.

Where tinnitus is concerned, occasional awareness of the ringing in the ears noises guards against a relapse occurring. However, should you slide back – even if it is several years after you achieved habituation – this tinnitus treatment invariably works faster when you repeat it than it did when you first went through the process (which can take many months). The goal of habituation tinnitus treatment is to banish your adverse reaction to tinnitus rather than banish the ringing in ears noises themselves, so a relapse is always a probability but not the end of the world.

Tinnitus Treatment Doesn’t Happen Overnight

As you might expect, the process of habituation as a tinnitus treatment happens very gradually (taking several months), so that there are longer and longer periods when you are not aware of the sounds. At the same time, you should notice that there is a gradual reduction in the amount of stress the sounds cause you.

Some people are not able to habituate fully to their tinnitus, in which case counseling, stress management and another tinnitus treatment can be invaluable. Then they can be made aware of their particular patterns of coping with setbacks and trauma, which generally enables habituation to be achieved. The aim of the majority of medical based tinnitus treatments is for habituation to occur.

If your tinnitus or ringing in ears noises are interfering with your ability to enjoy your life, or you simply want to get rid of them without a lengthy and complicated tinnitus treatment, before you ask your doctor to refer you to a tinnitus therapy clinic, why not try the Tinnitus Miracle method – see the video at the top of this page for more information.