Personalized music therapy may ease tinnitus
posted in - Dobbs, - Health tips |MSNBC Health reports:
Individually designed music therapy may help reduce noise levels in people suffering from tinnitus, or ear ringing, German scientists said on Monday.
The researchers designed musical treatments adapted to the musical tastes of patients with ear-ringing and then stripped out sound frequencies that matched the individual’s tinnitus frequency.
After a year of listening to these “notched” musical therapies, patients reported a distinct decrease in the loudness of ringing compared with those who had listened to non-tailored placebo music, the researchers wrote in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
Someone who might benefit from this notched music therapy is Metellica drummer Lars Ulrich. Playing loud rock music for over 30 years, initially without any protection, has left him suffering from persistent tinnitus for the last 10 years. While the majority of us may not be rock musicians, we are still exposed to loud sounds daily, one of the commonest culprits being mp3 players. Have a look at the American Tinnitus Association write-up on “How Loud is Loud?” to get a better idea.
Ulrich sums it up very well with this advice:
If you get a scratch on your nose, in a week that’ll be gone. When you scratch your hearing or damage your hearing, it doesn’t come back. I try to point out to younger kids … once your hearing is gone, it’s gone, and there’s no real remedy.
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