Tinnitus isn’t new. But maybe it’s new to you, like a noisy used car you can’t take back. Normally, though not always, tinnitus presents as an incessant buzzing or ringing in the ears. Often, the sound is very overwhelming. Regardless of how tinnitus is experienced by you, this point is probably true: if tinnitus is troubling you, you might be searching for some new ways to control your symptoms.
Fortunately, new therapies and treatments are being formulated that aren’t cures for tinnitus but can help you manage it. Your tongue is even involved in some of those therapies.
The Most Recent Way to Manage Tinnitus
One of the most recent therapies for tinnitus seems a bit odd at first but does appear to show some promise. Both the ear and the tongue are stimulated with this device developed at the Trinity School of Medicine in Dublin. Bi-modal neurostimulation is the technical term for this approach.
The results were rather striking with this device based on the first tests. Most people received treatments for a duration of twelve weeks or so. Within those 12 months, those same individuals observed a dramatic decrease in tinnitus symptoms. But until the testing phase is completed it won’t be extensively available.
What Can I do Now to Find Tinnitus Relief?
Unfortunately, it will probably be quite some time before novel therapies such as this are widely accessible. So how can you control your tinnitus right now?
There are, fortunately, some tinnitus management technology that has recently come onto the market. And the most prevalent way to manage your tinnitus is a modern hearing aid.
It works like this:
Your hearing aid can give you something else to listen to. One reason why tinnitus becomes more noticeable as you lose your hearing is that the stays loud while everything else gets quieter. A hearing aid can boost the volume on the rest of the audio spectrum. That doesn’t lower the volume of your tinnitus, but it could make the ringing less obvious.
Your hearing aid can mask the sound. If your hearing loss is relatively minor, then a masking device may be the best way to deal with your symptoms. A masking device basically looks like a hearing aid. And many hearing aids can be augmented with masking technology. Your tinnitus symptoms can be obscured by sounds produced by this kind of technology. Whatever the best sound is to mask the ringing in your ears will be used, it may be a specific tone or even white noise.
This is, naturally, just the beginning. We can help you choose the best choice for you so get in touch with us.
