New 'MindEar' App Can Reduce Debilitating Impact of Tinnitus, Say Researchers -...
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New 'MindEar' App Can Reduce Debilitating Impact of Tinnitus, Say Researchers
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Writing in the journal Frontiers in Audiology and Otology, Bardy and colleagues report how 28 people completed the study, 14 of whom were asked to use the app's virtual coach for 10 minutes a day for eight weeks. The other 14 participants were given similar instructions with four half-hour video calls with a clinical psychologist. The participants completed online questionnaires before the study and after the eight-week period. The results reveal six participants given the app alone, and nine who were also given video calls, showed a clinically significant decrease in the distress caused by tinnitus, with the extent of the benefit similar for both groups. After a further eight weeks, a total of nine participants in both groups reported such improvements.
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by labnet ( 457441 ) on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:29AM (#64146293)
I’ve had tinnitus for 24years bilateral at 9kHz constant tone 24x7.
I can hold a hair dryer up to head and still hear it.It’s similar to chronic pain and the body has a flight or fight reaction. CBT attempts to break the fight/flight relationship which usually takes many years.
Lots of snake oil treatments around.
https://generalfuzz.net/acrn/ [generalfuzz.net] Can give some temporary relief.
Tinnitustalk.com is also a good summary of treatments and research.-
What we really need is a "moonshot" effort for stuff like this that affects a lot of people.
Tinnitus
CFS/Long COVID
Dementia
Chronic headaches-
I suffer from two of those four (for now, at least).
Chronic headaches, on and off, for over 20 years, fortunately a couple Nurofen pills (one at onset, one 12h later) help me function normally again.
Tinnitus, started suddenly around two weeks ago, manageable for now, started happening a few months after my hearing started to deteriorate a bit.
Mid-40s suck more than I was hoping...-
2 weeks is still a relatively short time, you can still hope that it will get better.
And while it is uncurable in general, it actually depends on the root cause. You should get medical advice. -
I sincerely hope things improve for you.
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Dementia is in most cases physical damage due to age, itâ(TM)s very hard to âoefixâ because people die as they get older.
CFS is a psychological condition that responds very well to CBT together with changes in environment and diet.
Tinnitus is also often caused by physical damage, short of surgery which is not guaranteed to bring any improvements you canâ(TM)t regrow an entire ear. In some cases this is psychologically induced in which case CBT can help, but for most people there is no cu
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Hypothesis: chronic headaches are caused by something in your environment.
Experiment: selectively remove things from your environment and see if the headaches go away.
On the extreme end there's the elimination diet: reduce your food intake to nothing but things known to be safe, wait for 2 weeks, and see if the headaches go away.
On the easy end, check to see if the headaches go away when you're on vacation: at another place, eating different foods.
Check for allergens in your home. Install an allergen blocki
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A further note on the previous post:
Try to become aware of the chemicals in your environment that might get into your body.
For example, the air freshener hanging in your car, the chlorine smell from the pool at the gym, the vinyl smell of the track around the tennis courts, the smell of nail polish, cologne, and anything else.
Look at the ingredients of the things you eat: canned spaghetti, canned fruit (sulfates), cola (salt, phosphorus), mocha latte (chocolate), and so on.
Look also into the proportion of c
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Do you have visual snow too?
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Had mine since I was a small child, 47 now. Multiple tones.
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Try the following: at a very quiet time, "think back hard" for a minute the same tone(s) you are hearing as if you would sing/whistle without actually doing so. 9kHz is high, so you may need to stepwise think one or more octaves (frequency doublings) up to get at the correct frequency. If it works the tinnitus will gradually fade while "thinking" and slowly come back to a lower level after. Repeat as required until all tones are completely gone.
If your tinnitus is noise instead of / in addition to tone(s) t
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There should be no reporting of medical claims based on UNREPLICATED science.
ESPECIALLY with Psychology.-
I dunno. I notice that this is a study which doesn't include a control group. Everyone in the study had the app, with or without video appointments and in the end everyone had the same improvement. From that I know to avoid trusting this and that the psychologists didn't add anything measurable by this tiny study to long term outcomes. That sounds like a pretty useless study. Someone should be reporting most medical research for fraud.
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A study of 28 people doesn't seem especially expansive either. Still, if you pay enough, slashdot will promote it:-(
(maybe slashdot has a 'reverse science' price list - the flakier the science behind the slashvertisement, the higher the cost...?)
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MindEar sounds like a miracle product from the MindHead [wikipedia.org] organization.
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I've looked into some of these phony treatments for tinnitus and all the "results" (so far) rely on self reporting and the placebo effect. I understand some people have medical conditions that have no cure and they are, unfortunately mined by charlatans for cash. I hope I'm never that desperate for a cure. Throughout my very long life I've used my 100/50-50/100 rule. I don't take any treatment unless 100% of the participants report a 50% improvement or 50% report 100% improvement. Everyone should have their own copy of the Snake Oil chart in their personal medical file.
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Your 100/50-50/100 rule is WAY overkill.
A 50/50 treatment for tinnitus would already be so helpful.
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The app shares your contact info with third parties. So get ready to be spammed endlessly.
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About additional quack medical treatments.
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You know what 'cures' tinnnitus for me? Not thinking about it and letting my brain tune out the tone. If I hear or see the word, suddenly I'm aware of it again.
I understand a lot of people have it far worse, and I can't imagine never getting a break from the sound. It must be maddening.
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Mine's the opposite. It comes and goes, and I find that once it's here, if I concentrate on it and it fades back out within a few seconds. It's like someone is slowly turning up a dial until I stare at them angrily for a few seconds and then they turn it back down.
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I have mild tinnitus. I never notice it during the day, unless I think about it, then I can hear it. If I get distracted again, it will go away.
If I am sitting in absolute silence, then it has more of a tendency to return.
The brain is a powerful thing.
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they're selling an app, not making science. the study is a joke.
tinnitus has no (known) cure, you gotta live with it, some people might find that harder than other. these guys are just preying on the subset of the former that is desperate enough. it's disgusting.
psychological "treatment" doesn't anything to tinnitus either, but it might manage the distress, sort like a support thing.
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I live with a perpetual 8 kHz tone in my left ear due to chronic ear infections and multiple surgeries to correct ear drum damage. I have tried the "cures" and have found they DON'T WORK for me. It would be nice if I could find something that does work but no luck so far.
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My tinnitus is mainly due to AA guns and howitzers. It sounds like the continuous screech of a thousand sun beetles. It is amazing how loud it can get.
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i got it (methinks) from cannon firing in military service too, it even got me an eardrum lesion. oh, and listening to my walkman full volume. kids those days...
yes, when in silence it can get unbelievably loud. but i guess i'm lucky, i did have some panic attacks in my youth but i've gotten pretty much used to it, it's been with me for nearly 40 years now. best friends!
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I've been living with Tinnitus for 10s of years (car racing and shooting). I've been using the app with my Oticon hearing aids for years and it only makes it worse. I may try this just to check it off the list too.
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