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Adult man using hearing aids to help with his tinnitus symptoms

Scientists still haven’t determined the cause of tinnitus, a ringing or buzzing in the ears. However, there is one thing that all hearing specialists agree on, you are more likely to experience tinnitus if you also suffer from hearing loss.

As you probably know, your age, genetics, and lifestyle can all contribute to the progression of hearing loss. And while it may seem like the symptoms of hearing loss would be rather obvious, when it’s still in the early stages, it often goes undetected. Worse, even a mild case of hearing loss raises your risk and likelihood of developing tinnitus.

It’s not a cure, but hearing aids can help manage tinnitus

Tinnitus can’t be cured. However, hearing aids can treat both hearing loss and tinnitus in ways that can reduce symptoms and improve one’s quality of life. There are some pretty remarkable similarities between tinnitus and hearing loss, in fact.

The pitch or frequency of the ringing a person hears when dealing with tinnitus is typically in sync with the type of hearing loss that person has. For instance, somebody who hears high-pitched ringing from tinnitus might suffer from high-frequency hearing loss. The concept is that the brain tries to compensate for the missing frequencies by generating tinnitus sounds in the same frequency range.

A traditional hearing aid can essentially hide the ringing or buzzing associated with tinnitus by replacing it with the appropriate sounds. Fortunately, tinnitus symptoms can be treated in other more advanced ways than traditional hearing aids.

Decrease symptoms of tinnitus with specialized hearing aids

Hearing aids detect environmental sounds and boost frequencies you have trouble hearing. Even though it may be simple in design, that amplification of noise, whether it’s the din of a dinner party or the rattling of a ceiling fan, is critical in training your brain to receive certain stimulations again.

But other combinations of strategies like sound stimulation, counseling, and minimizing stress can also be utilized to augment those amplification efforts and provide a more comprehensive treatment approach.

Some manufacturers even use the irregular rhythm of fractal tones to lessen the symptoms of tinnitus. These rhythmically irregular tones can detract from the consistent and regular tones tinnitus sufferers hear. The ringing is overwhelmed by pleasant, wind chime-like sounds produced by the most common fractal tones rather than basic white noise which can also be helpful in some cases.

Other specialty devices attempt to blend your tinnitus in with the outside sounds you’re hearing. This approach will typically utilize a white noise signal that a hearing specialist can program to ensure accurate calibration for your ear and your condition.

Whether it’s through sound therapy, blending, or a white noise system, each of these specialized devices has a common aim of distracting the user away from the ringing or buzzing of tinnitus.

It’s true that tinnitus can’t be cured, but for at least some of the 50 million dealing with the condition, hearing aids present an attractive possibility to reduce symptoms and improve quality of life.

Want to discuss your tinnitus with a hearing specialist?

For more information on reducing tinnitus symptoms, take a look at our tinnitus section or call for a consultation.

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