Alternative Tinnitus Treatment.

An article by Adrian Featherstone:

Most people who have found they are living with the ringing in the ears which characterises the sounds of tinnitus will have been told by their medical practitioner that there is no known effective tinnitus treatment.

The rationale behind that statement is that having established that there is no physical cause of tinnitus, there is nothing for the doctor to treat. As the vast majority of people with the condition fall into this category then most sufferers are left to look outside of mainstream medicine for some sort of tinnitus relief.

Realising that tinnitus has come to live with you can be a frightening and stressful time. You can’t help but listen to it. It’s always in the background. The volume and intensity may change but it’s always there. The more you focus on the sounds of tinnitus the louder and more intrusive they become.

Tinnitus is a condition affecting vast numbers of people across the world. Perhaps not surprisingly there are almost as many offerings of tinnitus treatments, tinnitus cures and methods of tinnitus relief as there are sufferers. Some of these methods of tinnitus treatment are little more than old wives tales and some are based on fact.

The reality is that as there are no defined causes of tinnitus and that the condition affects different people in different ways then what gives blessed relief to one person may do absolutely nothing for another.

Popular among the recognised methods of alternative tinnitus treatment are the ancient oriental arts of acupuncture and acupressure. The Chinese have practiced what we would now call alternative medicine and treatment for centuries. Acupuncture involves controlling the flow of what is referred to as chi energy by puncturing the skin with very fine needles at specific points on the body. This chi energy is a balance of yin, the calm and passive female force and yang the stimulating and aggressive male force. The acupuncturist maintains that a healthy body will have a healthy balance of these two unseen forces. The Japanese art of Shiatsu follows a similar principle. However Shiatsu is an ancient form of acupressure so no needles are used.

Herbal remedies particularly traditional Chinese herbal remedies have been used to great effect treating almost any and every complaint since antiquity. These natural and gentle remedies are still widely used today and for some tinnitus sufferers have given a positive result.

Other alternative tinnitus treatments that certainly give some tinnitus liberation to some people are Aromatherapy, Hypnotherapy and Indian Head Massage. What these forms of treatment have in common is that they promote a sense of well being and relaxation. That is certainly a key element of tinnitus relief. Stress is thought to contribute to or at least exacerbate tinnitus symptoms. Being able to relax reduces levels of stress. Less stress and more focus on positives will start to push tinnitus into the background.

There is no doubt that an holistic approach to overall health encompassing the physical, emotional and psychological aspects of life will go a long way toward the eventual conquest of tinnitus. All alternative tinnitus remedies are likely to have a very limited success unless they are a component part of an overall holistic doctrine.

More articles by Adrian Featherstone:

• Ringing in the Ear. The onset of a sound like a ringing in the ear can be caused by a sudden exposure to a loud sound, continuous exposure to noise or potentially to an underlying health issue.
• What Causes Ringing in the Ears.  What causes the ringing in the ears that we universally call tinnitus?
• Much Needed Tinnitus Relief.  Living a normal life with the sounds of tinnitus constantly ringing in your ears would seem an impossibility to most tinnitus sufferers.
• Tinnitus Cures That Might Work For You. With the realisation that the noises you are hearing in your ears or in your head are not going to go away comes the journey to either eliminate them or to learn to live with them.
• Subjective and Objective Tinnitus.  The sounds of tinnitus that will be so well known to those living with this condition are variously described as ringing in the ears, hissing,whistling or buzzing.
• Symptoms of Tinnitus.  Millions of people around the globe experience the symptoms of tinnitus. The ringing in the ears which characterises this complaint is especially common in the towns and cities of the industrialised western world.
• Symptoms For Tinnitus.  Ringing in the ear is one of the primary symptoms of tinnitus. Tinnitus being a condition which commonly affects about a fifth of the population aged 55 or over.
• What Causes Tinnitus.  There will be few people who have gone to a discotheque or to a live band concert who will not have experienced the sounds of tinnitus.
• Finding Your Own Tinnitus Relief.  Only those of us who have lived with the sounds of tinnitus singing away in our consciousness and who have suffered the constant ringing in the ears that goes with it truly understand the trauma tinnitus creates.
• The Early Days of Your Tinnitus. Whether they realise it or not most people have heard the sounds of tinnitus. After exposure to any very loud noise we all have a ringing in the ear to some degree. 
• Tinnitus Hypnosis.The use of Tinnitus Hypnosis and Tinnitus Hypnotherapy in the battle to clear tinnitus symptoms has long been recognised...
• The Effects of Tinnitus. Tinnitus is widely described as a condition
  in which a person hears noises where no corresponding external noise exists.
• Beginning the Search for a Tinnitus Cure. If you were able to ask a large group of sufferers who were looking for a tinnitus cure to describe the arrival of a tinnitus sound in their lives, a great many of them would tell you a remarkably similar story.
• Do Any Tinnitus Remedies Actually work?  Anybody who has had the misfortune to find themselves living with tinnitus will be only too well aware of the frustration that this debilitating condition can cause the sufferer.
• In Puruit Of A Tinnitus Cure. Realising that the noise in your ears just isn’t going away can initiate a sense of panic and stress into even the most stoic of us. The diagnosis of tinnitus that so often follows this realisation only serves  to compound the problem still further. 
• Tinnitus Masking. Those of us that suffer with the intrusion of tinnitus sound in our ears will know that the condition is at its worst when there is no other external noise to dilute that sound. It is at these times that tinnitus masking can be extremely effective. 
• Turn Down Those Tinnitus Sounds. The volume of your Tinnitus Sounds will almost certainly relate closely to your state of mind. When we are feeling down and out of sorts, when we feel depressed and moody we become very inward looking. Of course for the tinnitus sufferer, waiting for them inside their head there are always those tinnitus sounds.
• Tinnitus Sound and Stress. Stress has long been recognised as being a major player in both the cause and subsequent intensity of tinnitus sound.