Tinnitus Essay
What is tinnitus? Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present. To understand what this condition is you first need to get into the mind of someone who lives with tinnitus. Imagine sitting in a quiet room when suddenly you hear this loud pitch coming from somewhere. You start to search for the sound, maybe it’s the refrigerator or the A.C. unit. After checking multiple devices throughout the house, you give up and sit back down but the sound it still there. Guess what, that was the last time you will ever hear silence for the rest of your life. There are a variety of sounds that come with the condition of tinnitus, these range from high pitch Hz, pulsing, roaring, or clicking. Tinnitus is a secondary condition that is mostly caused by sound induced hearing loss however, other causes include ear infections, disease of the
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heart or blood vessels, and Ménière's disease. Even though there are approximately fifty million people with this condition, research into this condition has always been limited at best. According to the Oregon Tinnitus and Hyperacusis treatment clinic, “The first written account of medical treatment of tinnitus is all the way back to the Egyptians. For the bewitched ear and humming in the ears, they would infuse oil, frankincense, tree sap, herbs, and soil; and they would administer it via a reed stalk that they put in the external ear” (Willingham). During the Middle ages it didn’t get much better as treatment would consist of taking a fresh baked loaf of bread and placing on the ears which would cause the patient to perspire assisting God in curing you of the condition. It wasn’t until the Renaissance age that we saw the first surgery used to help relieve the sound that they believed was wind trapped in the ear. The surgeon would cut a circle in the inner ear allowing the wind to release.
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Works Cited
Bauer, Carol A., Jennifer L.
Berry, and Thomas J. Brozoski. “The Effect of Tinnitus Retraining Therapy on Chronic Tinnitus: A Controlled Trial.” Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology 2.4 (2017): 166–177. PMC. Web. 11 Nov. 2017.
Drew, Shelley, and Ewart Davies. “Effectiveness Of Ginkgo Biloba In Treating Tinnitus: Double Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial.” BMJ: British Medical Journal, vol. 322, no. 7278, 2001, pp. 73–75. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25465954.
Middleton, Jason W., et al. “Mice with Behavioral Evidence of Tinnitus Exhibit Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Hyperactivity Because of Decreased GABAergic Inhibition.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108, no. 18, 2011, pp. 7601–7606. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41242227.
Okamoto, Hidehiko, et al. “Listening to Tailor-Made Notched Music Reduces Tinnitus Loudness and Tinnitus-Related Auditory Cortex Activity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107, no. 3, 2010, pp. 1207–1210. JSTOR, JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/40535626.
heart or blood vessels, and Ménière's disease. Even though there are approximately fifty million people with this condition, research into this condition has always been limited at best. According to the Oregon Tinnitus and Hyperacusis treatment clinic, “The first written account of medical treatment of tinnitus is all the way back to the Egyptians. For the bewitched ear and humming in the ears, they would infuse oil, frankincense, tree sap, herbs, and soil; and they would administer it via a reed stalk that they put in the external ear” (Willingham). During the Middle ages it didn’t get much better as treatment would consist of taking a fresh baked loaf of bread and placing on the ears which would cause the patient to perspire assisting God in curing you of the condition. It wasn’t until the Renaissance age that we saw the first surgery used to help relieve the sound that they believed was wind trapped in the ear. The surgeon would cut a circle in the inner ear allowing the wind to release.
Discussion
Works Cited
Bauer, Carol A., Jennifer L.
Berry, and Thomas J. Brozoski. “The Effect of Tinnitus Retraining Therapy on Chronic Tinnitus: A Controlled Trial.” Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology 2.4 (2017): 166–177. PMC. Web. 11 Nov. 2017.
Drew, Shelley, and Ewart Davies. “Effectiveness Of Ginkgo Biloba In Treating Tinnitus: Double Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial.” BMJ: British Medical Journal, vol. 322, no. 7278, 2001, pp. 73–75. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25465954.
Middleton, Jason W., et al. “Mice with Behavioral Evidence of Tinnitus Exhibit Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Hyperactivity Because of Decreased GABAergic Inhibition.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108, no. 18, 2011, pp. 7601–7606. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41242227.
Okamoto, Hidehiko, et al. “Listening to Tailor-Made Notched Music Reduces Tinnitus Loudness and Tinnitus-Related Auditory Cortex Activity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107, no. 3, 2010, pp. 1207–1210. JSTOR, JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/40535626.