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I understand that most sound therapy tends to be aimed at hiding/inhibiting/silencing the tinnitus sounds to help sufferers such as white or pink noise recordings etc. Apart from information on the soundtherapy website referring to Dr Tomatis' research for their own justification of their own products, is there any other scientific or anecdotal research that suggests that any form of sound therapy can exercise and stimulate auditory muscles to improve their function?
There is a justifiable "theory" behind sound therapy as most muscles of the human body benefit from stimulation through exercise either by improving strength/function, maintaining current condition or retarding the affects of aging. Gym training, aerobic activity and other training is proven to do all these things to muscular areas of the body from biceps and abdominals through to the heart and lungs and even the skin. Most of these types of muscular exercises show results within days and weeks.
Surely there has to be relative exercising that stimulate the auditory muscles that can show noticeable results for hearing loss patients and tinnitus sufferers within a similar timeframe. After all, muscles are mostly constructed the same, only a different size and shape.
So why isn't there any mainstream form of auditory muscular training or exercising research when there is such a high percentage of the worldwide population suffering from hearing loss and tinnitus?
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Hi There,
Fortunately, there are multiple studies on sound therapy that provide evidence that it can lower the volume of your tinnitus.
There studies have recently been focused on Notched Music and Notched White Noise. Briefly, what they indicate is that sustained listening to sounds that have your tinnitus frequency "notched out" suppresses the activity of tinnitus neurons that cause the ringing in your ears.
These papers, by German and Italian researchers, are available at:
http://www.audionotch.com/FAQ#science
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Peter_AudioNotch wrote:
Hi There,
Fortunately, there are multiple studies on sound therapy that provide evidence that it can lower the volume of your tinnitus.
There studies have recently been focused on Notched Music and Notched White Noise. Briefly, what they indicate is that sustained listening to sounds that have your tinnitus frequency "notched out" suppresses the activity of tinnitus neurons that cause the ringing in your ears.
These papers, by German and Italian researchers, are available at:
http://www.audionotch.com/FAQ#science
These studies had a rather low number of participants (one as few 8 persons in a group) so their statistical relevance could be questioned.
Also, as far as I am aware, no music or sound therapy can claim as yet to have the tinnitus improved permanently. All effects are only temporary to some degree.
The residual inhibition is actually a well known effect even for un-notched noises. I have used it myself in the initial stage of my tinnitus to suppress it for periods of up to half an hour with simple white noise (see this thread), but as such it is not really a long term solution, or may even have detrimental effects.
Thomas
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