Music Therapy Doesn't Suppress Tinnitus

And in some cases even worsens it. What is interesting in this study is they matched clinical diagnostic and EEG. They examined people with hearing loss and tinnitus. Unfortunately i just have the abstract and i don't even know the sample size. The measuring of tinnitus loudness by EEG matches their clinical diagnostics.

Some big names of tinnitus research here: Arnaud Norena and Dirk De Ridder.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23104014

 

Twenty-six tinnitus patients (17 males, 9 females) participated in this experiment at the multidisciplinary TRI tinnitus clinic of the Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium

I don't know how to pm, but i don't want to post the paper up here (copyright stuff i guess)

 

Another interesting find Daedalus,

it's interesting as I think if you ask most long term sufferers about whether music suppresses their Tinnitus they would answer no. It actually makes mines worse if I listen to something too long. One of the worst things about getting this horrific condition was how it affected my enjoyment of music.

I remember also reading about a DJ who said that whenever he played a gig his tinnitus was usually louder afterwards despite wearing ear plugs.

 

26 seems a bit low as a sample. Especially with three groups. I was a bit suprised by their findings because it is against the phantom limb pain model logic.

Me too i don't know how to pm here. However i can still be messaged on the other forum.

 

This proves to be true in my own-self controlled study of one (me). I tried noise therapy, classical music therapy, notched music therapy, tones, etc with no real improvement on my T.

 

There goes majority of proposed treatments for tinnitus.

On a side note, I feel sorry for the people who have participated in this study and had their tinnitus worsen.