Category: Hyperacusis Tinnitus Toolbox

• New Cover for Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook

  I’m updating the Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook ebook and paperback cover from a blue ear and swirl to a more stylized 3D darker cover by a professional graphic designer. This…

  

• When Hearing Aids Don’t Work

  [Revised January 19, 2024. Originally published December 17, 2020 at silencity.com.] Many people with hearing difficulties delay getting help because they’re told hearing aids don’t work. But in my experience,…

  

• Build Your Own Hearing Protection Toolbox

  I was pleased to write an article and help answer reader questions for the American Tinnitus Association Winter 2020 issue of Tinnitus Today. This is an excellent issue full of…

  

• Neuromodulation is Not a New Tinnitus Treatment

  A recent Scientific American article covers tinnitus treatment research that isn’t new. The treatment described is neuromodulation or bimodal neuromodulation described in the Body Therapy chapter of Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis…

  

• Hyperacusis & Gaming Soundtracks

  Regular everyday sounds are physically painful for people with hyperacusis or decreased sound tolerance. This means sometimes we need to use hearing protection to cope when other people don’t need…

  

• Safer Personal Listening

  With personal listening, it has never been easier to listen to music or audio content whenever and wherever people want. But…science shows personal listening is associated with permanent progressive hearing…

  

• MRI Testing with Tinnitus or Hyperacusis

  Doctors don’t make MRI referrals unless testing is important for a person’s healthcare. But MRI testing can cause hearing loss, tinnitus, or hyperacusis. In 2018, scientists found noise levels of…

  

• Crowdsourced Sound Level Meter Apps

  Anyone can use crowdsourced Sound Level Meter (SLM) apps to help measure and map public noise pollution. Some free apps only work in certain countries, but I’ve tried to pick…

  

• e-Cigarette or Vaping Risk to Hearing Health

  When vaping a few years ago triggered a severe flare up in my tinnitus and hyperacusis as well as worse hearing, I was very worried. In 2018, I set up…

  

• A Noise Control Cure for Preventable Tinnitus and Hyperacusis

  [Originally published at silencity.com] In a 2019 article titled “Why is there no cure for tinnitus?” the authors looked at whether studies had identified if participants have a history of…

  

• Social Hearing Protection

  Websites, media and other sources say use ear protection if you’re in damaging high level environmental noise whether that’s mowing the lawn, going to a concert or stadium event, or…

  

• Reasons Why There is No Tinnitus Cure Yet

  Everybody wants to know the answer: why is there no cure for tinnitus? So it’s not surprising this free open access study on the topic has been shared more than…

  

• Tinnitus Hyperacusis Awareness Facts

  [I have fibromyalgia and arthritis in my fingers. Typing hurts. I try to abbreviate tinnitus and/or hyperacusis/decreased sound tolerance. I’m not trying to offend by calling them hyper ears, especially…