What is Tinnitus?

Famously, The Who’s guitarist Pete Townshend blamed his tinnitus on years of live rock concerts. While not all our clients have a rock-star background, we’ve all experienced a brief ringing in our ears at some point. Tinnitus is described as the subjective impression of often-continuous sound, with no objective sound source, and the symptoms of tinnitus are often reported by sufferers to be like a continual ringing or white noise, like a radio or TV that hasn’t been tuned in properly.

Many sufferers of tinnitus have reported that it is linked to another underlying condition such as stress, or hearing loss, and while a cure or direct treatment for tinnitus is yet to be discovered, there are methods, including counselling and sound therapy, that have helped people achieve relief from their symptoms.