Sound therapy

Why sound therapy?

Sound therapy work for Tinnitus because it change how we perceive it, it will act as a masking system that will turn our attention from tinnitus.

The tinnitus becomes less noticeable if we manipulate the sound that come around us, so the mean concept here for a masking sound is to derive our attention from tinnitus it will work in the brain, the brain will just concentrate on the sound rather than Tinnitus.

The hole history about sound therapy is avoiding total silence. Any patient with Tinnitus will notice the ringing in his ears become very high in a quit environment like closed room or an empty space.

Tinnitus is caused with an imperfection or trouble in the inner ear related with the brain, it's very complex circle where the ear by the nerve send signals to the brain, the brain then will translate those signals as a Tinnitus it's like a computer when the software don't find the research he will send you an error message, for the human brain the message is translated with Tinnitus. The subconscious brain will let you concentrate with Tinnitus the some as you are concentrating on reading this paragraph right now. The sound therapy will decrease your perception for Tinnitus it will act as a masking sound that will stop you from focusing on it.

What are the types of sound therapy that help Tinnitus :

- Sound therapies are available in many ways, your audiologist or Doctor depending on your case can give a sound therapy.

Counter top devices, that contain environmental sound water fountain or other, on searching the net I have found a website that offer a free sound therapy based on beach waves loop for free the concept is unique and I like it www.onlinesoundtherapy.com

- CD's

- Ear masking that produce white noise like water you can even choose the sound that you prefer.

- A mixture between air aids and Tinnitus masker those devices are also available.

-  The sound generators or ear level used in tinnitus retraining therapy.

- Music therapy.

- As a result sound therapy is advised for Tinnitus rehabilitation but it's not enough alone it must be mixed with  other techniques so it can be effective.

Tinnitus in one ear and sound therapy

In this case one hearing aid is enough. Even when using maskers,  masking just the affected ear can be effective, sometimes with this technique masking just one ear the Tinnitus appears in the other ear, the fact here is that tinnitus was existing in the both ears before, but one ear was affected more than the other, so there is no harm to make the masking in both ears.

Music therapy

Music helped many patient to overcome stress and anxiety not just the Tinnitus, but when it's used in overcoming the Tinnitus the problem reside on its tonal content I mean the bass and high frequencies, some patient will feel themselves uncomfortable with those frequencies.

Can Tinnitus therapy help my case?

This depends on your experience with masking sounds, your Tinnitus may be masked by the radio tone or natural sound like water or rain, it's up to you to find what work best in masking your ringing.

Nowadays there is a wide range of sound therapies, and masking therapies that varied from CD's, to water, fountains beach sound, birds and other.

The choice of one technique will depend on you or your audiologist if you don't have a clear idea about what can really mask the tone of your tinnitus with good results.

SOUND THERAPY 30 minute wave beach :

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