The Independent has reported that a new sound-based treatment looks set to change the lives of people with tinnitus.
Ten percent of the UK population has some level of tinnitus, which causes ringing noises and other sounds to be heard. 600,000 people experience tinnitus to a disabling degree.
The article says: “the unusual therapy is designed to “reset” auditory nerve cells in the brain to stop them misfiring.”
The treatment is called Acoustic Co-ordinated Reset (CR) Neuromodulation, where patients wear headphones that play tones that are tuned into the patient’s tinnitus for a few hours a day.
While there is no indication yet of how well the treatment works for people with some level of deafness, it is said to “disrupt the rhythmic firing patterns of tinnitus-creating auditory nerve cells.” 75% of patients in a study reported an improvement.
After a successful trial, the treatment may soon be offered on the NHS.
Read the full article on the Independent website by clicking here.
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whosaidthat1
March 20, 2012
Again Totally Deaf are pushed aside, over and over its always severe or hard of hearing, where do Acquired totallly Deaf stand, Nowhere from what Ive seen and read..
Ever asked a Acquired totally Deaf person questions or how they feel, With NOTHING to hear with at all, after losing it all..The Mind boggles.Maybe there isnt enough of people like myself to shout from rooftops..
Ronald Cooper
March 10, 2015
Just found your page, Totally fed up with the blank in fo when searching for Deaf with Tinitus it’s as if deaf people must hear if they hear Tinnitus,, struck a site called your healthy GP. Com but they seem reluctant to go into details in email, they contacted my wife and confused her, I had gave them my email adress so I could ask questions,, wondered if you had come across it,,