How to perform sound therapy for tinnitus

  There are many misconceptions about sound therapy for tinnitus. In fact, this therapy requires very serious cooperation from the patients themselves, rather than listening to music as a leisurely entertainment.  How to use sound therapy in a reasonable way Sound therapy is an important part of the current comprehensive tinnitus treatment, and its effectiveness has been clinically confirmed, but everyone may have different views on how to use sound therapy in a reasonable way.  The sounds used in sound therapy can be nature sounds or soothing music that does not cause mood swings, but not human voices (human voices tend to cause changes in our emotions). Clinically, it has been found that different people are able to accept different sounds depending on their education, personal experiences and preferences. In short, the doctor can provide the patient with several different choices and let the patient pick out his or her own.  After the patient has chosen the right sound for his or her brain, it is time to choose the volume of the sound, but of course the most important and basic condition is that the sound device should have good sound quality so that the beautiful sound can be restored to the maximum. Sound therapy is not a masking therapy, the purpose of which is not to cover up tinnitus so that the brain has no way to detect tinnitus, but to put the brain in a relaxed state of mind while the brain can recognize tinnitus, rather than being in an irritable state once tinnitus is recognized, which can only aggravate the emotional response to tinnitus, so that the sound The volume of sound should be about the same as tinnitus. At this time, one should be able to hear tinnitus when one wants to hear it, and listen to sound when one wants to hear it. In this way, it is possible to train the patient’s ability to control the shifting of attention, and to be in a state of forgetfulness of tinnitus for a period of time without the disturbance of tinnitus. Theoretically, the longer this state lasts, the more blurred the patient’s brain’s perception of tinnitus becomes, eventually reaching the point where tinnitus becomes a default background sound in the brain when not noticed, and coupled with the patient’s ability to switch between tinnitus and other things easily by providing attention shifting control through training, the combination of the two achieves the goal of treating tinnitus.  So exactly how long should patients listen to music each day?  This of course depends on the individual’s living conditions, but in terms of the brain’s cognitive process, to have a constant perception of a state, it should be more than 20 minutes each time, and more than three times a day is good. In addition to the time, it is more important that each time you listen to it, you should concentrate on it and immerse yourself in it, not to be distracted, otherwise it will be counterproductive and the patient will lose confidence in it hastily before experiencing the good effect of this tool.  The above is a little experience gained by individuals in the clinic through their own fumbling, summarizing the experience of patients, and learning from smart patients, and put here for you to learn from each other and make progress together.