Tinnitus

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Tinnitus
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• Tinnitus is described as hearing noises in ears
  when there is no outside source of the sounds.
  The sound ranges varies from high to low pitch,
  single tone to multi-tonal, or having no tonal
  quality. Tinnitus may begin suddenly or progress
  gradually.

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Symptoms

• Tinnitus symptoms include the below types of
  noises in ears
• Ringing
• Buzzing
• Roaring
• Clicking
• Hissing

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Causes of Tinnitus

• There are many different causes of tinnitus. Some
  of the most common causes include
• Medications
• Menieres disease
• Disorders in the outer ear
• Disorders in the middle ear
• Disorders in the inner ear
• Note Though the majority of tinnitus sufferers
  also have hearing loss, the presence of tinnitus
  does not indicate that one is losing hearing.

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Types of Tinnitus

• There are two broad types of tinnitus
• Subjective tinnitus is tinnitus in which only the
  particular person can hear. This is the most
  common type of tinnitus. It can be caused by ear
  problems in your outer, middle or inner ear.
• Objective tinnitus is tinnitus in which doctor
  can hear when he or she does an examination. This
  is rare type and it may be caused due to blood
  vessel problem, an inner ear bone condition or
  muscle contractions.

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Treatment

• Generally there are two types of treatments are
  available for tinnitus. They are
• Tinnitus counseling
• Use of mechanical devices such as hearing aids or
  white noise generators

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How can hearing aids help tinnitus?

• Person those who have a tinnitus problem can opt
  to hearing aids which distracts from the tinnitus
  and make able to hear much better. The hearing
  aids amplify surrounding noises so that the
  tinnitus will be no longer heard. Hearing aids
  are ideal if there is an associated hearing loss
  with the tinnitus.

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• Unfortunately, tinnitus is not a simple problem
  with a simple solution. Everybody's tinnitus
  noise is specific to them, and as a result
  treatments need to be tailored to the individual.

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• Art of Hearing offers free hearing check where
  you can discuss your problem or arrange an
  assessment with one of our audiologists

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• The Art of Hearing
• 2/2 Ecko Rd, Mt NasuraArmadale WA 6112, Australia
  
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