Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT) was developed by a neuroscientist named Pawel
Jastreboff. The basic idea seems to be habituation: a sound of the pitch(range)
of the tinnitus is presented to the ears through transducers that look rather
like hearing aids, and then the volume of this sound is very gradually reduced
over a long period.
As far as I can tell, TRT is offered only in a few major centres, and is very
expensive. (One must purchase the transducers, for instance.) It does not
always provide relief, though I gather it succeeds in some cases.
See http://www.tinnitus-pjj.com/ for detailed information.
Windsor Viney
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:24:50 -0700
> From: Herb Rodriguez <Herb.Rodriguez@Colorado.edu>
> To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: Ear Problems??
> Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030121172322.021cd050@spot.colorado.edu>
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> At 01/21/2003 03:58 PM, you wrote:
> >though some people get some relief in various directions: herbals, drugs,
> >acupuncture, Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. Some people spend a lot of money
> >in a vain search for a cure or amelioration, while for some lucky others,
> >the tinnitus spotaneously vanishes, even after months or years.
> >
> >Good luck.
> >
> >Windsor Viney Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
> >
>
> Thanks for your detailed reply. Can you explain more about Tinnitus
> Retraining Therapy?
>
> Herb
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