Improve your ears
Children's special needs
Alleviate hearing loss
Unlike compensating with a hearing aid, Sound Therapy improves the function of the natural ear, so is useful for both those with and without hearing aids.
The listening program gives a complete work out to the ear muscles, cilia, auditory pathway and auditory cortex.
Subjects needed! 
Do you live in Perth and suffer from hearing loss?
We invite you to participate in a research study to measure the effect of Sound Therapy on hearing.
Testimonials
"The beauty of the treatment is that I don't have to listen to the music. Often I am almost unaware of it... It is my intention to keep on listening to the tapes and continue to enjoy better hearing." - Robert Lindstrom
"My hearing has improved to such an extent that I seldom have to use my hearing aid." - Dan Stuckel
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Do you use a hearing aid?
Sound Therapy has helped people with hearing aids, some to the point where they no longer need the aid. Do some of your listening with the aid, and some without.
Hearing Problems and Sound Therapy
There are many contributing causes to hearing problems. Some of the more common ones include:
- Cochlear damage due to prolonged exposure to loud noise ("noise induced hearing loss" or "industrial deafness").
- Lack of high frequency sound to stimulate the ear.
- Lack of good muscle tone in the middle ear, caused by stress or poor diet.
- Poor central auditory processing (see Cocktail Party Syndrome)
- Psychological factors - inability to resolve personal issues and communicate.
- Otosclerosis - overgrowth of the cochlear bone which results in fusing the stapes to the cochlea.
Conductive hearing loss refers to any disorder in the sound transmission system in the middle ear, which includes both bones and muscles. Sometimes surgery is required to rectify the problem. Sound Therapy can be used after an operation, as any surgery requires post-operative rehabilitation.
Sensorineural hearing loss refers to damage which has occurred inside the inner ear. Loud or prolonged noise flattens the fine, hair-like sensor cells (called "cilia") in the inner ear, which means they can't pick up sound vibrations anymore. This prevents the sound from reaching the auditory nerve. A diagnosis of nerve deafness does not necessarily mean that the nerve is damaged - it may be that the cilia have been flattened.
Hearing loss is not inevitable with age. It is the number of years of noise abuse that causes hearing deterioration, not the number of years of living. Young people who listen to rock music often have the same hearing level as 50 year old factory workers. However, people of all ages - including those in their 80s - have experienced dramatic improvement in their hearing by using Sound Therapy.
How Sound Therapy improves hearing
Whether congenital or acquired, physical or emotional, hearing may improve through Sound Therapy.
Exercising the muscles
The middle ear contains two tiny muscles - the tensor tympani and the stapedius - which play an active role in the functioning of the ear. Lack of tone and flexibility in these muscles means that the ear loses its ability to recognise certain frequencies of sound, so these sounds never reach the inner ear.
The alternating high and low frequencies of Sound Therapy cause the ear muscles to repeatedly tense and relax. This exercise restores muscle tone and improves the functioning of the whole ear mechanism.
Stimulating the cilia
On the Sound Therapy CDs, the low frequency sounds are progressively removed and the high frequency sounds are augmented. These high frequencies stimulate the cilia. Where the cilia have been flattened by too much noise, the high frequency sound stimulates them to return to their upright position. This restores one's hearing in the high frequencies.
Psychological opening
Hearing is sometimes closed down to some extent for psychological reasons. Sound Therapy encourages resolution of psychological issues by reintroducing high frequency sound and re-creating the pre-birth experience of sound. As the psychological issues are resolved, one can allow oneself to open to the full range of hearing.