As with any other medical issue, a tinnitus treatment is most successful when it addresses the cause directly. Since tinnitus is considered a symptom of a disease rather than its own disorder, treatment for tinnitus focuses on the underlying illness. Unfortunately, in many cases it is very difficult to determine the precise cause of tinnitus, […]

Unless you are one of the lucky few that has found relief from traditional medical tinnitus therapy, you have likely been considered or tried alternative therapies for tinnitus. This is not uncommon for diseases that tend to defy Western medical treatment; many complementary and alternative therapies are adopted to fill that void. This is certainly […]

The first rule to curing tinnitus is to not accept “no” as an answer. This is your symptom, you deserve to know the particular cause and you deserve to find a cure for tinnitus. Unfortunately many physicians end their clinical discussion with “you’ll just have to live with it.” While there are certain people that […]

Virtually every non-threatening sensation in the body goes away in a certain amount of time. You feel your clothes when you first put them on, but soon after you forget that they are even there. This process is called habituation and it is an extremely important neurological function. It is also the foundation for Tinnitus Retraining […]

Tinnitus and hearing loss are intimately related. Hearing loss may be the main cause of a person’s tinnitus while tinnitus can diminish a person’s ability to hear. Since the two go hand in hand, it is important to understand their relationship and how each impacts the management and treatment of the other. If a tree […]

Tinnitus is a medical symptom in which a person perceives a sound, such as ringing or humming, yet it is not a sound that is coming from the environment. Perhaps it is best to consider was tinnitus is not, before tackling what tinnitus is. First, tinnitus is not its own condition or disorder, it is […]

The key to preventing tinnitus is to identify the causes of tinnitus and avoid them. This is easier said than done because there are so many causes of tinnitus (ringing ears). Moreover, not all of the causes are so easily avoided. Even so, when you consider that tinnitus can be extremely difficult to treat in […]

In virtually every case, when people discuss tinnitus (i.e. ringing in the ears) they are referring to subjective tinnitus. Subjective tinnitus is a sound that one hears that is not being caused by an external source and that cannot be heard by anyone other than the person who is suffering from the peculiar symptom. However, […]

Tinnitus is a symptom, not a specific disease. Regardless of whether it is called a disease or a symptom, patients still want the strange ringing or humming in their ears to stop. Therefore physicians have developed a clinical pathway to identify the cause of tinnitus so that treatment for the underlying disease can be administered […]

Tinnitus is the sensation of sounds like ringing in the ear that is noticeable with the absence of any external noise. The word means “ringing” in Latin. Tinnitus is a symptom of a condition and is not a disease itself and is not normally the sign of anything serious. Tinnitus can result from any one […]