Tinnitus Retraining Therapy explained

There is a lot of information about tinnitus cures especially when it comes to Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. This is more of a treatment opposed to a cure and I will explain how it works as simply as I can as well as refer you on to a quality source.

The beginning

Tinnitus Retraining Therapy is based on the jastreboff model, which was developed in the 1980's. His research was based on the bond between our emotional/psychological links to the different pitches that we hear. There was an amazing discovery that 75% of people who are affected by tinnitus do not actually have it. So how is this possible?

Tinnitus sounds linked to our subconscious

Many of us become accustomed to certain sounds and then eventually we block it out and can not hear it. A good example of this is if you live near train tracks and after time you learn to ignore the trains’ sounds. This also relates to noises and sounds that we never block out because of there importance for example: The sound of a car horn means danger and your subconscious learns to react to this sound.

Digging deeper

Most tinnitus sufferers can hear ringing in their ears because of a bad experience linked to certain sounds. Looking at the information that you have read already you can see that we can learn to block out noises and raise priority on others. So Tinnitus Therapy is designed around people who have had a bad experience that triggered their tinnitus sound and subconsciously can not get rid of it. This concept is used for most problems that we face such as relaxation, stress, insomnia etc... So you can begin to understand how therapy also works for tinnitus.

Tinnitus cure with therapy

Curing your tinnitus with therapy (TPT) is simply about reprogramming your subconscious in relation to the ringing in your ears. I am sure if you think back to when this issue began it was due to some kind of a bad experience (big or small) and it escalated from there. Now it is important to remove your negative association to the tinnitus sound and seek further professional help.