Help for Tinnitus

We provide Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT), a form of acoustic therapy designed to help persons who suffer from tinnitus (ringing ears). TRT uses a combination of acoustic counseling and sound stimulation designed to first ease a person’s negative reaction to the tinnitus sound and then gradually to stop perceiving it.

Sound therapy helps make tinnitus less noticeable by reducing the contrast between the tinnitus sound and background sound. It also helps the brain become less attentive to the tinnitus.  Sound therapy trains the brain to get used to (habituate) the tinnitus signal until it becomes a neutral, insignificant signal. A neutral signal is something the brain can filter out.  TRT has a reported 80% success rate.

Faster Processing Helps Reduce Perception of Tinnitus

Auditory Aerobics® has helped relieve tinnitus in various sufferers.  Speeding up processing produces a positive effect with certain individuals.  In hearing, faster processing produces clearer information.  Apparently, it also produces a positive effect on the tinnitus. Various patients have reported reduced tinnitus at the completion of the Auditory Aerobics® program.  Auditory Aerobics® offers a promising new way to relieve tinnitus.

The Difference Between
Hearing Aids and Auditory Aerobics®

Today’s hearing aids provide superior sound quality and offer many outstanding options to meet individual needs.

Yet, hearing aids treat loss of sensitivity and not slow processing.  Making sound louder does not necessarily mean clearer speech understanding –– especially when auditory processing is slowing with age.

Hearing skills, like reading skills, need exercise to stay sharp. Without the right kind of exercise, the ability to understand what you hear, gradually slows and weakens. This makes it hard to hear clearly.  Auditory Aerobics® provides that essential exercise.

Auditory Aerobics® often serves as a supplement to hearing aids, enhancing their value. Building speech understanding skill can greatly increase hearing aid satisfaction. That’s because faster processing produces clearer information. When we hear better, hearing aids become a more satisfying experience. When we enjoy something, we use it more.  It is a win-win situation.  In this way, Auditory Aerobics® greatly enhances hearing aid use.