What is masker therapy? A treatment that uses noise to mask the sound of tinnitus.

Tinnitus is fine when it doesn't bother you, but when it starts to bother you, it bothers you all the time.

This stress can make the tinnitus even worse, which is not a good thing.

There are several treatments for tinnitus, but one of them is to mask the tinnitus with noise! This section introduces the Masker Therapy, which is a new type of therapy.

Let's take a closer look at what Masker Therapy is all about.

The treatment of tinnitus is summarized in "Treatment for tinnitus varies depending on the cause Summary of treatment methods".
Please refer to it.

Contents

Masker Therapy Overview
Masker therapy method
Disadvantages of Masker Therapy

Masker Therapy Overview

Masker therapy is a method of masking tinnitus by determining the pitch and loudness of the tinnitus sound and then listening to a noise that matches that sound! This is a treatment method called

It is difficult to hear speech when there is a lot of noise around you, isn't it?
Let's make the sound of tinnitus less noticeable by the sounds around you! This is what it is like.

Masker therapy uses a special machine called a masker.

By the way, this masker method is also used in the examination of tinnitus.

Masker therapy method

First, the pitch of the tinnitus sound is examined.
Then, the loudness of the tinnitus is examined.

The height of tinnitus is determined by listening to a sound made up of a single frequency, called a pure tone, and determining which frequency the sound is made up of.
The higher the frequency, the higher the sound, and the lower the frequency, the lower the sound.

Once the height of the sound is determined, we listen to a noise called band noise, which is centered on the frequency of that high frequency.

We will try this for one to two hours a day and see if the tinnitus bothers you.

Disadvantages of Masker Therapy

Masker therapy uses a box-shaped device that looks like a hearing aid.
Therefore, elderly people and others who do not want to wear hearing aids also resist maskers.

Another drawback is that if the tinnitus is higher than 6,000 Hz, it is less effective.
Some people say that tinnitus is so high pitched that it is actually not very effective.

The disadvantage of this type of treatment is that it is not for everyone.