Recently, Jinghao hearing aid website received a lot of questions about tinnitus masking. After s Meng’s arrangement, we will make a small science popularization of tinnitus masking.
Most tinnitus patients think that tinnitus is not very serious in the daytime, but it is very serious in the dead of night. In fact, this is because the ambient noise in the daytime is far greater than that in the evening, which hides the tinnitus. Make full use of this phenomenon, noise can be used to mask tinnitus. In the past, it was thought that the best way to mask tinnitus was to use narrow-band noise or pure tone – with the main tone of tinnitus as the center frequency. However, it is now advocated to use white noise with all frequencies, so that patients can more easily adapt to and get used to tinnitus signals in the noise. The so-called “low intensity” refers to just heard or sounded comfortable, low loudness. Do not cover the tinnitus completely with very high intensity. Therefore, it is also called “incomplete masking”. High intensity noise is easy to aggravate the damage of the ear.
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According to the official website of Jinghao hearing aid, the instruments that can provide masking are:
1. Tinnitus masking device: there are ear back type, inner ear type, box type and other types, domestic and imported products. Some can only produce white noise, some can produce pink noise, narrow-band noise, speech noise.
2. Hearing aids: because hearing aids can amplify both speech signals and environmental noise, they can play a dual role of hearing aids and masking tinnitus, which can be described as “killing two birds with one stone”. Hearing aids should be the first choice for tinnitus patients with hearing loss.
Tension often leads to tinnitus, or aggravates tinnitus. Tinnitus can cause tension. Tension can be the cause of tinnitus or the psychological reaction of tinnitus. They can be cause and effect each other.
It is suggested that relaxation training should be done frequently. The purpose of relaxation training is to eliminate tension. The methods are as follows: sitting, lying or lying, eyes closed and quiet, hands on the abdomen or holding together. You can also use your thumb to connect with other fingers in order to eliminate selfish thoughts and relax your muscles. Use your mind to control how relaxed your muscles are and try to relax as much as possible.
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