In this House Insights series installment, Dr. John House explains five useful things to know about tinnitus. Tinnitus is most often associated with hearing loss, and the number two cause of hearing loss after aging is exposure to loud noise. That is why this Tinnitus Awareness Week, the House Institute Foundation is partnering with EarPeace, a leading hearing protection brand focused on promoting safe listening. To learn more click here:
We’re coming up on the tinnitus awareness week and i’ve been asked to give a little talk about tinnitus is not a disease it’s a symptom and it’s very common basically eighty percent of our patients with hearing loss will have tinnitus and in my experience about five percent of my patients who have normal hearing
Have tinnitus things and in many times we don’t necessarily find a cause but it is important that patients who do complain of tinnitus have an evaluation which would include an audiogram or hearing test and they should see an ear nose and throat physician to rule out serious underlying conditions the most
Common cause of hearing loss is either exposure to loud noise or just the normal aging process so of course prevention is good we can’t prevent aging that’s normal but we can prevent exposure to too much noise with the proper use of hearing protection such as ear ear plugs or ear muffs when exposed to any kind of loud
Noise such as power tools or working in a noisy environment or certainly we see a lot of rock concerts tremendous amount of very loud noise the patients bothered by it they say yes i have it it’s very common i’ve had it for many years and i don’t even listen to it but then there’s that group of maybe
Five percent of my patients who are very disturbed by it they can’t sleep they say it wakes them up they have difficulty going back to sleep they have difficulty concentrating we also did some and found that those who had severe tinnitus were either depressed or had anxiety disorders or a combination of both and more
Recently with functional mris we have located the area of the way it is generating the brain not in the ear so we now know that it’s in the brain and it’s located near the limbic system which is the anything that adversely affects a person can spill over and cause a stimulation of tinnitus i became were
Important components and i heard that biofeedback can be helpful in other words teaching patients to relax teaching teaching patients to their situation can can affect their tinnitus and we did biofeedback studies found some good results in many patients so we find that cognitive behavioral testing treatment can
Work biofeedback can help sometimes medications is a mild sedative or maybe an antidepressant all these things can help that small group of patients who are very seriously severely disturbed by their tinnitus thank you so much dr. house as dr. house said tinnitus is a symptom and not a disease and it is most often
Associated with hearing loss one of the leading causes of hearing loss is exposure to loud noise that’s why this tinnitus awareness week we partnered with earpeace a leading brand in the field of hearing protection if you’re at a concert working with power tools or any kind of environment in which you’re exposed to loud
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Ear Doctor Shares 5 Facts about Tinnitus By House Institute
