subject: Tinnitus Retraining Therapy - Hope for Tinnitus Sufferers [print this page] There is a new habituation therapy designed for those who have tinnitus or ringing ears. This therapy is called as Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. This treatment, which is relatively new, has 80 percent success rate in a trial mad. This therapy uses the idea that the brain can ignore noise that a person used to hear everyday. The person must be patient as this treatment may take effect within the first 18 months.
It uses counselling to make the patient understand of how combining tinnitus retraining and sound enrichment can put an end to negative reaction to tinnitus sound, then gradually end their perception of it. Usually, to provide a background noise level, a noise generator is used in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. The treatment's goal is to offer hope to tinnitus sufferers if they could in turn take the time and make an effort in learning and implementing it.
This therapy requires an effort of the person to achieve success in the course. Knowledge about tinnitus and the whole Tinnitus Retraining Therapy procedure process must be understood by the person. For the person who wishes to go under Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, it would be helpful for him to have a basic understanding of how auditory cortex perceive wound through the subconscious auditory neuronal networks.
This is how Tinnitus Retraining Therapy is conceptualized. A person living in a noisy area all throughout his life won't notice his noisy surrounding lest somebody would mention it. But as for those living in a quiet subdivision, if he then is required to relocate in a noisy area, he would recognize the noise in the surrounding. This is because, a person living in a noisy area, already perceived the sound as a noise, and the brain gives no meaning to it, and so it tunes out the sound. This brain function is called Auditory Habituation. This is the concept used in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy.
So how can we retrain the brain in such a way that the brain won't get a negative reaction to the noise or ringing ears, or tinnitus allowing auditory habituation through Tinnitus Retraining Therapy? By listening to a constant digitally created full audio spectrum white noise, MP 3 or CD. The level of the sound must be below that of the level of the ear noise, so that it makes the ear noise less noticeable. The sound would make the plasticity of the brain to increase, in such a way that it wouldn't cause an emotional response. This would result in auditory habituation.
Patients must be cooperative in the whole treatment, helping him self finish the course to achieve the treatment which is the goal of the therapy. Patients need to be prepared before starting with the procedure. Functions of the brain must be fully understood. Patience and faith must be qualities that a person who wishes to undergo the treatment bears. He must believe that Tinnitus Retraining Therapy works and overcoming it would be achieved at the end of the treatment. The entire course would take about 18 months, so he must be constant and determined to finish the treatment.
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy - Hope for Tinnitus Sufferers
