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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Acupuncture For Tinnitus – Acupuncture To Treat Tinnitus

 

Acupuncture For Tinnitus

The ancient wisdom of the East asserts it has its own recipe for relief of the world-wide condition. It offers, as a supplement to modem management of tinnitus, a treatment whose credentials are found in the traditional medicine of China which dates back thousands of years.

 

To the less informed westerner, acupuncture is all to do with surgical operations being conducted without pain and with a few pricks of a needle supposedly replacing the usual anaesthetics. Such stories of Chinese practices in hospitals become exaggerated traveling around the world and tend to take on an aura of near-miracle. The actual picture is less clear-cut, with Chinese medical people ready to admit that acupuncture is best seen as something of value alongside 'modern' medicine and not as a replacement for it. Continue reading →

Tomatis Tinnitus And Shiatsu – The Tomatis And Shiatsu Method

Tomatis Tinnitus

Head sounds can be an occupational hazard for executives who worry too much about their stressful work, according to one of the latest theories. Innovative treatment consists of listening to music from which the low frequencies have been filtered out. Gregorian Chant is also sometimes used.

 

The treatment is known as the Tomatis Method, named after Professor Alfred Tomatis of Paris, and is practised in many countries. With singing and speech problems also treated, the organisation claims the late Maria Callas and the actor Gerard Depardieu among its cured patients. Continue reading →

Tinnitus Hypnotherapy – Hypnotism As Alternative Therapy

 

Tinnitus Hypnotherapy

 

Hypnotism
The business of one person putting another into a trance has a special place on the fringe of medicine. With one foot in, or close to, accepted medicine and the other on the stage of light entertainment, there is no other healing practice attracting simultaneously so much keen support and utter condemnation and incredulity. Can it make you better in one context and entertain and amuse you in another? This very diversity of its use is enough to put people off. For them, seeing volunteers doing silly things on the public stage because a hypnotist has told them to behave that way is proof that it has as much reality as a conjuror sawing a lady in two. And if that is the case, what is it doing alongside conventional medicine? Continue reading →

What Is The Ringing In Your Ears – Questions And Answers About Tinnitus (Part 3)

What Is The Ringing In Your Ears

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A Car Crash Started It

My back and neck were injured in a road accident, when a vehicle stopped abruptly in front of my car. In hospital a high-pitched noise entered my head – it might have started in the crash, but I was in a state of some shock and may not have noticed it. The sound has not gone, and is temporarily worse if l quickly move my neck or shoulders. Continue reading →

What Is The Cause Of Tinnitus – Questions And Answers About Tinnitus (Part 2)

What Is The Cause Of Tinnitus

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Dental Fillings

Should I avoid having my teeth filled with mercury amalgam ? I am told it can give you tinnitus, or in my case make it worse.

 

Although any danger from this widely used dental amalgam has not been proved, mercury is recognized as a dangerous substance in many circumstances and fears about its use in the mouth are understandable. Various parts of the body can be adversely affected by mercury, and the ear cannot be totally excluded as a vulnerable organ. Tell your dentist about your tinnitus and any fear you may have of this type of filling. A dental drill can aggravate tinnitus incidentally, so you may wish to use ear-plugs while in the dentist's chair, although these will probably not totally exclude the sound. Continue reading →