Many people think and believe that it’s our legs that balance the body. But, it’s not the truth. It’s our ears that balance the body. Which is one of the reasons that you mustn’t take hearing problems so lightly. Now, whatever the cause of the hearing problem is – a concussion or any nervous disorder – it can make you dizzy and nauseous. And these are just a couple of adverse effects of hearing disorders.
Having said that, if you’re a musician or someone who’s constantly on your headphones, you’re most likely to suffer from hearing problems like tinnitus. And it’s this fairly common but mostly ignored odd hearing issue that we’ll be talking about at length today.
So, to begin with, what’s tinnitus and how to find out if I’m suffering from it?
Well, tinnitus is a sort of ringing noise you hear in your ears despite the absence of any sound being actually generated (in other words, you hear a ringing noise in the absence of external stimulus). Not so annoying towards the beginning, when left unchecked, it can severely affect the quality of your life and make you irritable, anxious, and unable to focus on anything.
So, the first thing that you need to do is get an ear evaluation done by expert doctors and therapists at clinics like Audiologie Centre Ouest évaluation acouphène. The first approach that this clinic undertakes is sending you a Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) questionnaire that you are supposed to fill and send them through email/fax. Based on the findings, the experts determine your TFI score that’s used as a reference to find out how severe/advanced your condition is. Based upon it, they offer a couple of corrective treatments listed below.
- Zen Therapy
Also known as acoustic therapy, this treatment plan is most effective for advanced tinnitus cases. It begins with training the mind to be able to focus on other sounds that actually have a source instead of being entirely focused on the ringing noise in the ears. Once done with it, the therapy advances to the following treatments.
- Amplifying different sounds for the ears and brain to get used to and relax.
- Playing chime-like musical tones (Fractional tones) to reduce stress and anxiety.
- Tinnitus Habituation Therapy
This is another wonderful therapy that helps you in learning to get habitual with the ringing and buzzing noises in the ears so much so that at one point you forget about the ringing sound entirely. In other words, this therapy helps you in learning how to ignore tinnitus until it stops bothering you fully.
Nevertheless, as simple as these two approaches sound, they aren’t easy. They offer long-term relief from tinnitus only when carried out by expert counselors and doctors at reputable clinics like Audiologie Centre Ouest. So, do visit the clinic to get your evaluation done at earliest.
