The cause of tinnitus, a persistent buzzing or ringing in the ears, is generally ambiguous. But one thing we know for sure is that if you have hearing loss your probability of experiencing tinnitus goes up. Up to 90% of people who suffer from tinnitus also have hearing loss according to HIAA.

Your lifestyle, age, and genetics can all take part in the development of hearing loss as you most likely know. And while many individuals think of hearing loss as being obvious, the reality is that some minor hearing loss can go undetected. Worse, even a slight case of hearing loss increases your risk and probability of developing tinnitus.

Hearing Aids Won’t Cure Tinnitus But They Can Help

Tinnitus doesn’t have a cure. However, hearing aids can treat both hearing loss and tinnitus in ways that can decrease symptoms and improve one’s quality of life. Sixty percent of people struggling with tinnitus, in fact, saw relief of their symptoms, and twenty-two had significant improvement.

A conventional hearing aid can essentially hide the buzzing or ringing caused by tinnitus by improving your ability to hear other sounds, which essentially drowns out the ringing. Luckily there are other, more sophisticated solutions beyond just conventional hearing aids to treat the symptoms associated with tinnitus.

Tinnitus Symptoms Will be Reduced by These Types of Specialized Hearing Aids

Hearing aids work by gathering natural sounds from the world around you and boosting them to a level that allows you to hear. Although it may be basic in design, that amplification of sound, be it the rabble of a dinner party or the clank of a ceiling fan, is crucial in training your brain to receive certain stimulations again.

You can enhance those amplification efforts by the combination of other approaches, like counseling, sound stimulation, and stress reduction for a more comprehensive approach to treatment.

Some hearing aid manufacturers even use the irregular rhythm of fractal tones to reduce the symptoms of tinnitus. These rhythmically inconsistent tones can distract from the consistent and regular tones tinnitus sufferers experience.

Other specialized devices try to blend your tinnitus in with the normal sounds you’re hearing. Your condition and ear have very personal needs and this technique will use a customized white noise that will be dialed-in by your hearing professional.

Whether it’s through sound therapy, blending, or a white noise mechanism, all of these specialized technologies have a common objective of distracting the attention away from the ringing or buzzing of tinnitus.

Hearing aids can improve quality of life and decrease symptoms of tinnitus even if there isn’t any cure.

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References

• https://www.hearingloss.org/wp-content/uploads/HLAA_HearingLoss_Facts_Statistics.pdf?pdf=FactStats
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17956798
• https://www.ata.org/managing-your-tinnitus/treatment-options/hearing-aids
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197965