• WANTED: Happy members who like to discuss audio and other topics related to our interest. Desire to learn and share knowledge of science required. There are many reviews of audio hardware and expert members to help answer your questions. Click here to have your audio equipment measured for free!

Lenire Tinnitus Treatment

That is true. The Susan Shore device was focused mainly on somatic types of tinnitus (aka, you can change the pitch/tone/volume of it with physical movements of your body). It was extremely effective at treating this type of tinnitus.

Fortunately, somatic tinnitus IIRC makes up around 75% or so of all tinnitus cases, IIRC.
I've had an interesting journey with somatic tinnitus. Cause is years of undiagnosed anxiety and bruxism from two near death accidents as a child and associated neck/back/facial muscular tension leading to TMJ disorder. Years to unwind this with specialist orthodontal treatment, medication and physio and massage. I still get bad days but better days more often than not. Still need to take a sedative at night to reduce the grinding but progress can be made. Today is a tinnitus-free day and I shall turn the music up!

Parents: don't ignore your kids when they say things aren't right!
 
I ran an article recently on this musical artist who had severe tinnitus. Apparently some engineers managed to record her tonight of sounds! I believe sensitive microphones were put in her ears, and I think the recording was in an anechoic chamber. Well, most tinnitus is held to be phantom sounds generated by the brain, there’s also what’s known as objective tinnitus in which actual sounds are produced. I presume that they would’ve captured objective tinnitus.

The artist the recordings of her Tinnitus onto her new album. You can listen to it here. The two tracks of her tinnitus are called left ear and right ear.

 
Hmmm,
"Limited to 250 Copies Pressed on Ultra Clear + Risograph Printed Poem Insert"
:cool:
 
I ran an article recently on this musical artist who had severe tinnitus. Apparently some engineers managed to record her tonight of sounds! I believe sensitive microphones were put in her ears, and I think the recording was in an anechoic chamber. Well, most tinnitus is held to be phantom sounds generated by the brain, there’s also what’s known as objective tinnitus in which actual sounds are produced. I presume that they would’ve captured objective tinnitus.

The artist the recordings of her Tinnitus onto her new album. You can listen to it here. The two tracks of her tinnitus are called left ear and right ear.

I wonder about tinnitus being generated by physical movement of the eardrum caused maybe by the small damping muscles attached to it setting it vibrating. I can't imagine any muscle, however tiny, turning on at off in the kHz range. So I am guessing (I'm not an expert in hearing or anything else medical) that the brain is generating it. I have it myself, as likely all ex-army artillerymen do. Those howitzers are loud!
 
I wonder about tinnitus being generated by physical movement of the eardrum caused maybe by the small damping muscles attached to it setting it vibrating. I can't imagine any muscle, however tiny, turning on at off in the kHz range. So I am guessing (I'm not an expert in hearing or anything else medical) that the brain is generating it. I have it myself, as likely all ex-army artillerymen do. Those howitzers are loud!
One can suffer Tics from this muscles/nerves, but they tic, not sound permanently.
 
I ran an article recently on this musical artist who had severe tinnitus. Apparently some engineers managed to record her tonight of sounds! I believe sensitive microphones were put in her ears, and I think the recording was in an anechoic chamber. Well, most tinnitus is held to be phantom sounds generated by the brain, there’s also what’s known as objective tinnitus in which actual sounds are produced. I presume that they would’ve captured objective tinnitus.

The artist the recordings of her Tinnitus onto her new album. You can listen to it here. The two tracks of her tinnitus are called left ear and right ear.

Not tinnitus. Tinnitus is phantom sound. These are physical sounds called otoacoustic emissions, and are normal. Their strength can be tracked over the course of a lifetime and correlates to hearing loss or damage.

 
The video in which they explain how the method works shows a... peculiar... piano.

1717868019335.jpeg
 
I wondered if my tinnitus was actually caused by eardrum movement, so I stuck a tiny microphone in an ear and connected it to a preamp and that went to an oscilloscope. The ringing in my case seems to be in the few kHz range, but when I looked at the scope, set to a high sensitivity range, I saw nothing but a bit of noise (hiss) from the mic & preamp. No evidence of any mechanically produced signal, as might be generated by a moving membrane, was evident. I concluded that my brain, or maybe the ear's "preamp tissues" if there is such a thing, were generating the sensation.
 
One treatment I've thought about is acupuncture.
I have not visited my acupuncturist for a couple of years now, but will ask next time I go.
Find out if she has had experience, and success.
 
One treatment I've thought about is acupuncture.
I have not visited my acupuncturist for a couple of years now, but will ask next time I go.
Find out if she has had experience, and success.
I've always found acupuncturists to be a bunch of pricks. Acupuncture comes under the umbrella term of alternative medicine for the simple reason that it is not real, actual medicine.
 
I've always found acupuncturists to be a bunch of pricks. Acupuncture comes under the umbrella term of alternative medicine for the simple reason that it is not real, actual medicine.
Harsh but fair, it's pure snake oil. But for tinnitus there isn't a real treatment, so placebo might be a good way to go if it's really bothering you. Placebo does work, even when you know it's placebo, and the more complicated the placebo the more it works. Acupuncture is more complicated than a sugar pill so it works better, the brain is a weird place.
 
Back
Top Bottom