Teen Inventors Fight Tinnitus
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I suffer from chronic tinnitus myself, and I would be a changed man if I could get the ringing to go away. But I'm also pretty skeptical of any treatments that claim to reduce ringing, considering everything I've heard from doctors is, "you're stuck with it."
If there is a 10% change that it will work, will 30 pounds be worth it to you?
Here is a link from Wikipedia to a site at UC-Irvine http://today.uci.edu/iframe.php?p=/news/release_detail_ifram... about substantially the same thing and you can listen to a sample of the therapeutic sound for free.
I also have the chronic (and unexplained) kind of tinnitus and my understanding is that there is no treatment for it. I know it can be quite bothersome for some people.
Not true, the cause is well understood. How to fix it is another matter.
"jammed bones" (don't know how to express it in english).
It's pronounced "Voodoo placebo"
As for the "jammed bones", I wasn't actually referring to the ostheopathy stuff, but to nerves that are caught between bones in the spine (again, I can not explain it better in english). This is something "normal doctors" consider as a cause, so I don't think "voodoo" does it justice.
As for ostheopathy, as some doctors say: who cures is right.
I am surprised about the strong rejection of this suggestion. It is not homeopathy - I just checked Wikipedia and it seems to suggest there are at least some positive studies for Ostheopathy. Also giving Ostheopathy a try seems to be far less intrusive and less expensive than some other stuff "normal doctors" throw at you.
Sorry for going on about it, but I am just really surprised. I have another friend who has endured years of experimenting on her knee from normal doctors (usually not helpful). I don't know why she doesn't try Ostheopathy at least once - it would be neither more painful, time expensive nor money expensive than all the other stuff she went through.
I can imagine that maybe people are afraid of learning they wasted their time on the wrong thing or whatever. If that fear is worse than their plight, fine.
One problem is finding a good Ostheopath, though. I am not sure how one would go about it, without personal recommendations. It probably is not a label protected by the state, so finding a trustworthy practitioner would require some research.
(Yoga is even less expensive, at 10€ a pop - again a problem of finding a good class, though).
Personally I choose not to use earbuds or even earphones because the dB level produced in the ear is far too high. I prefer headphones (on ear or over ear) with noise cancelling, I barely need the volume up to get the feeling of loudness as they better produce bass noises and the most damage done to our ears is typically by high-frequency noise that most people don't desire when listening to music.
In tinnitus, the hair cells beneath their stereocilia hair component die, and they don't readily regenerate, just like brain cells.
I am really skeptical of this treatment for noise induced permanent hearing loss.
Edit: well that's the impression I had based on the article, but at their actual site (restoredhearing.ie) they make claims like "restore hearing sensitivity back to the level it was before the damage was incurred" which sound rather dubious.
They seem to have tested this cure for temporary Tinnitus. But I can easily see this being a placebo effect. Since this was a temporary condition they were trying to alleviate, would it have gone down to the same degree just from waiting?