Brain Plasticity - Tinnitus

Tinnitus Therapy Protocol & Sound Therapy - Part 2 -

..... by Dieter Luske N.D.-D.C.H.-D.M.H.-D.H

Holistic Therapy Consultant - Canungra - Gold Coast

Author of It happened in the seventies ... and ...

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Tinnitus Treatment Protocol Suggestions:

NOTE: Within an article, a treatment protocol is always a suggestion only, for specific treatment, individual evaluation is recommended.

Treating with brain plasticity concepts:

NOTE: Important information reformulated from last article:

• Chronic Tinnitus is similar to chronic pain, and "Phantom" limb pain. Chronic Tinnitus is considered to be "Phantom" sound.

• Treatment for Tinnitus, Chronic Phantom Sound, is therefore similar to the visualisation techniques used to overcome chronic pain,
  with additional therapy to influence the sound, frequency and volume directly.

• Generally speaking, Brain Plasticity therapy takes time, if you investigate Tinnitus, always work on therapy techniques for at least 4 - 6 weeks.

Suggested Treatment Protocol:

The general treatment concept is to combine therapies for a period of 6 weeks ar longer.

Lifestyle - Diet - Supplements:

1. Stay away from loud noises, wear ear plugs, or if gardening or work in a loud environment, wear ear protectors.

2. Eliminate hypersensitiveness and Allergies, makes sure you don't have any underlying, inflammation or infection.

3. Adopt a well balanced diet, or a specific individual nutrition diet plan. See here for suggestions

4. Take some supplements, like Gingko, Magnesium, VitC, Turmeric, Ginger, if tolerate Chilly

Relaxation & Stress release:

1. Relax with, doing exercise, walking, weightlifting, yoga, relaxation exercises, meditation

2. Relax with: listening to relaxing music.
   I recommend Alpha Relaxation Music, which is compose in 60 beats per minute, representing a relaxed heart beat.

Alpha Music Sample:

UseNature's Alpha Romance CD

Alpha Music's Aim is to stimulate the right side of the brain to help you drift into an alpha state of mind.

A mind in Alpha, is a "Relaxed Mind", free of stress and tension, it can be enhanced by artist pursuits like drawing or painting.

The Alpha Wave has a frequency from 7 to 14 cycles per sec. This is the State of Mind where you are in a "relaxed alertness".

Find out more: What is Alpha Brainwave Music?

Tinnitus Ignore Concept:

NOTE: Please be aware, that the "ignore" the sound principle is not a 100% brain plasticity concept, but interestingly enough, it still has helped some people to totally free themselves of Tinnitus. If the white noise is used for long enough, it may still stimulate the brain is a therapeutic way.

1. White Noise - Train your brain to to ignore the sound of Tinnitus, with Sound therapies such as "white noise".
   Ignore Concepts:
   a) Train the brain to ignore certain sounds and concentrate on others .
   b) Matching and overriding Tinnitus Sound Frequencies

   
   
   

2. More support to mask the noise: counselling, hypnosis, NLP, or self-hypnosis, all are used to support to ignore the sound as harmless, and therefore ignore it altogether.
   

Tinnitus Brain Plasticity Sound Therapy Concepts:

1. Re-training the brain. - White noise, nature sounds, relaxation music, classical music, in effect, all type of sounds and music where the "offending sound frequencies are filtered out", re-training the brain to concentrate on other sounds.
   

2. NOTE: To filter out the offending noise, the Tinnitus patient first needs to match their Tinnitus sounds, to an equivalent frequency.
   Once you know your frequency, you can order a specific sound therapy "sound track" for you.
   

3. To find " your" frequency, you need to use a frequency generator and find the matching frequency.
   Here is a FREE one - Generator ... it will ask you to create an account... BUT you can used the generator without one .. and .. they will try to sell you a treatment as well, which may be expensive.
   
   NOTE: We have individualised Sound Tracks available ... please contact me, with your specific frequency > Dieter L. - Editor
   ( usual Tinnitus frequencies are between 7,000 & 10,000HZ )
   

The Sound Effect Concepts:

1. Using filter techniques to filter out the offending Tinnitis frequency / sound.

2. Overwhelm hearing with unusual sounds, therefore re-training the brain..

3. Specific Sound Training, alternating extreme high and low frequency, while omitting the offending frequency, re-training the brain.
   
   

Additional Therapies:

1. Visualisation, see "Chronic Pain".

2. Stimulation of related brain areas with Acupuncture Concept:
   Acupuncture can be used 2 ways.
   The first way is the traditional way and concentrate on the most accepted Tinnitus Acupuncture points.
   The second way, is similar but with a daily acupuncture stimuli by needle or magnet.
   

I hope this information is helping you to overcome your Tinnitus.

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* Disclaimer - Any general advice given in any article should not be relied upon and should not be taken as a substitute for visiting a qualified medical Doctor.