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Tinnitus , more commonly known as ringing, buzzing, ringing in the ear, can be caused by various medical causes such problems in the spine, circulation, vascular origins … or as we have appointed some kind of alteration in the ear or nervous system. In the first case, called objective tinnitus is caused by physical agents such as vascular problems, circulation, which can be detected with the tools needed by an otolaryngologist. It can be solved with a particular medication. The case of subjective tinnitus is those that the problem is as we have explained the principle in the auditory central nervous system. There is no agent to produce it as in the case of goals, so we can say that there really is not as sound, just as subjective perception of the person concerned.

Tinnitus therapy involves the use of headphones with a noise familiar. This sound stimulates the auditory system accustomed, so that we can focus the patient on that sound. The audiologist must configure the sound so that it is also possible to hear the tinnitus, otherwise we will not be able to get a good habituation. To understand this we can say that most of us when we were sitting watching TV in our house, we can hear how it starts to rain by the noise of rain on the windows. But what happens if we focus our attention on television? Get stop listening to that sound, but really follow raining even if the rain is more intense than before.

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