Tinnitus Treatment

There is a chance that you or someone you love suffers from tinnitus, a phantom sound described as a continuous buzzing, whistling, or ringing. This sound is perceived within the ears or the head and occurs without any external source of the sound. However, it’s not the ear that’s responsible for tinnitus though it may be one factor. The source of a patient’s tinnitus can be found in the brain.

The abnormal overactivity that happened in your brain causes the perception of tinnitus. Over time, it becomes permanent. Brain areas regulating emotions, stress, and attention are affected as well. This disruption could be caused by medication, loud noises or just getting older.

The abnormal overactivity that happened in your brain causes the perception of tinnitus.

First, doctors examine the patient and decide what type of sound they hear, as well as the loudness of the sound and decide what causes tinnitus.

Tinnitus treatment is geared towards addressing some or all of the factors depending on test results and how bothersome the tinnitus is. Hearing aids can boost the auditory signal if significant hearing loss is present. Acoustic neuromodulators can potentially reduce and reverse neural synchrony. Sound therapy uses noises like rain, ocean waves, or birdsong to mask tinnitus and reduce stress.

Diet changes like eliminating salt intake can also improve tinnitus as well. If there’s a large component of stress and anxiety associated with tinnitus, a vicious circle among these components can occur leading to significant psychological distress.

Medications typically used to treat anxiety often cause tinnitus as a side effect. As such, counselling interventions like tinnitus retraining therapy are used to break this tinnitus cycle.

Other interventions like cognitive behavioural therapy allow people to re-evaluate their relationship with tinnitus in order to decouple the sound’s association with anxiety and stress. If there’s something that

Surgery is only available if there’s something anatomically or physically wrong with the ear. If someone had a perforated eardrum that was causing tinnitus, tympanoplasty or replacing the eardrum would fix that.

There’s also conductive hearing loss, where the bones in the middle ear aren’t conducting the sound through. A surgical procedure can be done to replace the bones in the middle ear.