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Alleviate Tinnitus
Sound Therapy relieves the most common causes of tinnitus: toning the middle ear muscles, stimulating the cilia, and calming hyperactive brain cells.
Research shows that Sound Therapy helps 80 - 90% of tinnitus sufferers.
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Testimonials
"My tinnitus, which my doctor said was incurable, was cured." - Gertrude Rempel Brown
"I acquired tinnitus from years of exposure to loud rock music. Sound Therapy was fantastic and it definitely helped to reduce my tinnitus." - Fiona Horne, rock singer, Def FXM
"I suddenly realized I didn't have any tinnitus any more! It was a pretty amazing thing to have all this quietness." - Kevin Pleming, former panel beater
"Within three months I was noise free. While it wasn't a miracle cure, the cure is quite miraculous." - Elaine Sax, former accountant
"Initially my tinnitus got worse, but I kept on with the Sound Therapy. It gradually started subsiding, and one day it dawned on me the noise had completely gone!" - Simone Collins, music teacher
"I suddenly became aware that the tinnitus whistle had stopped. I wasn't sure when it stopped, but it had!" - Flick Evans
Tinnitus (Ringing in the Ears) & Sound Therapy
Tinnitus is the condition where a phantom noise is heard inside the head. It can be loud or soft, intermittent or permanent. The sound can be anything from ringing to buzzing, hissing, rustling, clanging or roaring.
Tinnitus, which affects 1 in 5 Australians, is an annoying and potentially devastating condition for which there is no medical treatment. Constant, severe tinnitus is one of the most psychologically stressful conditions a person can suffer from. The effect of tinnitus on a person's life may include stress and anxiety, insomnia, reluctance to attend social events and go into noisy environments, reduced work performance, social isolation, depression and in severe cases even suicide.
What causes Tinnitus?
There are various theories about what produces the experience of Tinnitus. Some of the most accepted ones are:
- Damage to the cilia (hair-like sensory cells which receive sound in the inner ear). If they are bent over and touching each other they produce a short circuit, causing the phantom noise.
- Congestion or imbalance of fluid in the inner ear chambers.
- Hyperactive brain cells.
Tinnitus can also be caused by an acoustic neuroma (a tumour on the auditory nerve). Your doctor may recommend that you have an MRI to rule this out.
Tinnitus may begin as a ringing that persists for a few hours or days after a loud concert and then subsides. It may be brought on by one incident of exposure to loud noise, by years of noise abuse, by an illness (such as ear infections), an operation, stress, or environmental toxins, including certain prescription drugs.
Unless you have a condition that can be helped by syringing the ear or surgery, your doctor may tell you that there is no way to relieve your tinnitus. If so, please tell your doctor about Sound Therapy!
How Sound Therapy helps Tinnitus
Sound Therapy has proven to be effective with treating tinnitus since it addresses the root physical problems with the ear and brain most commonly found with tinnitus.
Sound Therapy has worked for people in their teens through to those in their 80s, for people who have had tinnitus for over 30 years and for those who have just the beginnings of intermittant tinnitus.
The length of time it takes to achieve results varies from 24 hours to 14 months. Typically, more severe cases take longer, so it is advisable to persist with Sound Therapy for at least 6 months.
Reversing cilia damage
In the Sound Therapy listening program, the low frequency sounds are progressively removed from the music, and the high frequency sounds are augmented.
Sound Therapy activates the middle ear muscles, restoring their tone and resilience. Gentle high frequencies then more readily reach the inner ear, where they give gentle stimulation to the cilia, restoring them to their upright position.
Once the ear opens to high frequency sounds, the sensory cells in the inner ear can be stimulated and restored to their upright, receptive position.
Fluid imbalance in the inner ear
The ear's ability to adjust and balance the fluid pressure in the inner chambers is impeded if the stapedius muscle, a tiny muscle in the middle ear, is not fully functional.
The "Electronic Ear" used in the recording of Sound Therapy challenges the ear with constantly alternating sounds of high and low tone. These alternating frequencies exercise the middle ear muscles, improving their tone and responsiveness.
Hyperactive brain cells
Eric Jordan, Chief Audiometrician in the Audiology Department at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, England, conducted double blind tests with Sound Therapy over a two year period. He attributes a high degree of success with tinnitus patients to Sound Therapy calming hyperactive brain cells.
Jordan writes, "what happens with Sound Therapy and tinnitus as far as I can surmise, is that it re-vitalises the brain cells which have been the cause of brain cell hyperactivity. Such hyperactivity is caused by stress, anxiety and depression. Sound Therapy has succeeded where Tinnitus Maskers have failed because it has a soothing effect on the body as a whole, calms the mind and revitalizes the rundown brain cells."
Sound Therapy on ABC's Second Opinion
ABC's Second Opinion program followed Eric Mutton's progress as he tried Sound Therapy for his tinnitus. Eric rejoices, "At 6 months I’ve been using these tapes for a long time now and the tinnitus has gone! It works!"