Hello,
I've been looking into sound therapy into possibly reducing tinnitus volume. A lot of research has been done proving notched sound/music efficacy but in my opinion most of results are anecdotal and lack detail (how long the person had tinnitus? what caused it? was it a double-blind study? etc.). My suspicion is that in most cases tinnitus improved as the time went on, which happens without any treatment. With that being said...
It's easy to create tracks using Audacity. Treatment, to my understanding, needs to be continuous for periods of months. And it needs to be done in silence. So if I'm going to be listening to notched sounds/music then I need to make sure there are no background sounds filling in the frequency gaps otherwise it would be relatively inefficient. This is quite hard to do in the world we live in nowadays.
With that being said notched sound/music seems to be the new hot thing out there. But if I use sounds/tone in tinnitus frequency shouldn't that also be effective? Given that we know of residual inhibition and it does work for me and probably for most people so capitalizing on it only make sense. E.g. if tinnitus is 1700Hz create a 1700Hz tone that would play every minute for a couple of seconds. I've started doing that but it's been a week or so without any noticeable results.
Also, shouldn't full frequency sounds/music be effective? If certain hair cells already died then obviously exciting live ones should also retrain the auditory cortex/brain to avoid ramping up sounds we can longer hear.
With all of the above my main concern is exposing the ears to non-stop sound which might make things worse eventually even at low volumes which is what is being recommended generally. So I'm a bit wary...
Please share your experiences and what may have helped you! Thanks!
I've been looking into sound therapy into possibly reducing tinnitus volume. A lot of research has been done proving notched sound/music efficacy but in my opinion most of results are anecdotal and lack detail (how long the person had tinnitus? what caused it? was it a double-blind study? etc.). My suspicion is that in most cases tinnitus improved as the time went on, which happens without any treatment. With that being said...
It's easy to create tracks using Audacity. Treatment, to my understanding, needs to be continuous for periods of months. And it needs to be done in silence. So if I'm going to be listening to notched sounds/music then I need to make sure there are no background sounds filling in the frequency gaps otherwise it would be relatively inefficient. This is quite hard to do in the world we live in nowadays.
With that being said notched sound/music seems to be the new hot thing out there. But if I use sounds/tone in tinnitus frequency shouldn't that also be effective? Given that we know of residual inhibition and it does work for me and probably for most people so capitalizing on it only make sense. E.g. if tinnitus is 1700Hz create a 1700Hz tone that would play every minute for a couple of seconds. I've started doing that but it's been a week or so without any noticeable results.
Also, shouldn't full frequency sounds/music be effective? If certain hair cells already died then obviously exciting live ones should also retrain the auditory cortex/brain to avoid ramping up sounds we can longer hear.
With all of the above my main concern is exposing the ears to non-stop sound which might make things worse eventually even at low volumes which is what is being recommended generally. So I'm a bit wary...
Please share your experiences and what may have helped you! Thanks!
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