What is Tinnitus Retraining Therapy?

According to statistics, One third of all adults experience some form of tinnitus some time in their lives, while 10 to 15% develop persistent tinnitus which requires medical attention. Since medical research shows tinnitus on the rise, experts are getting busy, trying to find a solution.
 

Tinnitus is the perceived sound of ringing, buzzing, whirring in the ears and is usually a result of inner ear damage. Since tinnitus is perceived, it is difficult to physically measure or treat the symptoms. Tinnitus Retraining Therapy is an effective form of therapy that uses low frequency noises along with psychological methods in order to guide the afflicted to a state of minimal awareness of the ringing sensations. .

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Tinnitus Retraining Therapy is shown to be more effective than the pharmacological approach. Drugs that are prescribed for the patient are to help alleviate some of the stress associated with the disease, but it doesn’t eliminate the noise. The goal of Tinnitus retraining therapy is to make the noises less noticeable and manageable to your ears so you won’t become dependent on the drugs.

Dr. Pawel Jastreboff

Tinnitus Retraining Therapy was developed in the 1980s by Dr. Pawel Jastreboff . Dr. Jastreboff discovered that some people with tinnitus were not troubled by the noises and some had even grown accustomed to them. His research showed that even though the volume levels of the noises were the same in some individuals, each person’s perceptions of the noises were different.

After the conclusion of Jastreboffs’ research, he came up the basic principles of tinnitus retraining therapy. He concluded that normal daily noises such as the humming of a refrigerator or cars driving by are not perceivable to most people because our nervous systems are aware that these noises are insignificant and therefore a signal isn’t sent to the cerebral cortex.

Through his research, Jastreboff discovered that the nervous system could be trained to ignore the annoying ringing sounds and bury them deep down into the subconscious level so the conscious mind isn’t aware. This is the principle surrounding Tinnitus Retraining Therapy.

Tinnitus Retraining Therapy Treatment

The very first goal of tinnitus retraining therapy is to remove any detrimental psychological thinking associated with the tinnitus sounds. The second goal is to make sure that you're still aware of the noises during your treatment. If you aren't able to detect any noises during the treatment, it may not be possible to gain any benefit out of that particular session.

The treatment involves wearing a frequency device behind your ear whenever tinnitus is most noticeable. Because absence of sound may worsen your tinnitus, a therapist will send a short frequency sound to the device. Since the noise being sent to the device masks the quietness that makes tinnitus worse, you are supposed to become less annoyed by the sounds and block any negative feelings related to the tinnitus. The low level sounds being sent to the device are assumed to activate the nervous system to reprogram itself to see tinnitus as a meaningless noise instead of an annoying sound. This ultimately supposed to prevent you from becoming stressed by the tinnitus sounds.

How long does the Tinnitus Retraining Therapy Last?

Tinnitus retraining therapy usually lasts from one to two years depending on your progress.

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