tinnitus help 4+

IND-Ingenieurbuero f. Nachrichten- u. Datentechnik

Designed for iPhone

    • 3.2 • 5 Ratings
    • £14.99

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Description

‘tinnitus help’ - eight programs in one.
The ultimate application for tinnitus sufferers.
Only naturally produced sounds of musical instruments and sounds of Mother Nature - no synthesizers!
Developed by an expert software engineer in the field of frequency analysis and a leading music psychologist, music therapist and hearing therapist with more than 20 years’ experience in the treatment of tinnitus sufferers.
Used very successfully in the treatment of tinnitus.

‘tinnitus help’ contains a broad range of functions but operating it is child’s play:
1. Accurate analysis of your tinnitus
2. Tinnitus masker and noiser
3. Reprogramming your auditory cortex
4. Stimulating your central auditory perception
Helping you to
5. defocus
6. habituate
7. relax
8. fall asleep

This is how it works:
‘tinnitus help’ utilizes the fact that the same brain activities that enable us to perceive auditory stimuli, i.e. real sounds, also cause the perception of the tinnitus sound. Thus ‘tinnitus help’ is able to intervene in central auditory processes. ‘tinnitus help’ forms an image of your individual tinnitus frequency (up to 20.000 Hz) and offers you the option to mix this frequency with pleasant sounds or music. This means that ‘tinnitus help’ can assist you to change the way you perceive your tinnitus sound by letting it gradually fade into the background. Regular listening to your individual ‘tinnitus help’ setting will enable you to learn how to increasingly fade out the sound in your ear and eventually ignore it. Experts call this “habituation”.

Step one:
Establish your individual tinnitus frequency by using the slide switch. It does not matter if it is the left or the right ear that is affected or both. Are you suffering from tinnitus sounds that rise and fall? Or cricket like sounds? Or red noise? You can mix all additional sounds to your tinnitus frequency, thereby optimizing your tinnitus profile.

Step two:
Choose a pleasing sound and add it to your tinnitus profile. Using this combination, you will feel your tinnitus gradually fading into the background. What you are experiencing is the effect of defocusing. You have now created your own individual, perfect tinnitus masker, which you can call up any time anywhere. Set the time on how long you want your program to run for and use your tinnitus setting as masker to help you relax and to fall asleep.

Step three:
Influence the activity of your auditory cortex. The area in which your tinnitus frequency is located will be especially active and, depending on how frequently and how intensely you pay attention to your tinnitus, this area will spread like an ink stain on a piece of blotting paper. However, you can restrict the growth of this area by adding one of the pieces of music on offer to your setting. The music has been especially written for tinnitus sufferers. All pieces of music are produced naturally on musical instruments; no synthesizers are used. The association “I am hearing pleasing sounds or music” will at first be stored in the hippocampus, our memory centre. If the experience is repeated by using ‘tinnitus help’, the hippocampus works like a trainer for your cerebral cortex. It will repeatedly offer the stored information to the cerebral cortex, resulting in the new input being learnt and new programs etched into the auditory cortex. Regularly recurring musical structures act like a massage on certain areas of the brain. Where tinnitus is present, this will be experienced as a negative effect. However, you can turn this to your advantage by calling up your very own personalised music in your head. Retrieve it whenever you need it, influence your perception processes and learn to set up the reprogramming of your central auditory pathway. In general the tinnitus has the same frequency as the peak in your hearing loss. So use ‘tinnitus help’ to stimulate your auditory cortex and to support your hearing.

What’s New

Version 2.06

Minor changes

Ratings and Reviews

3.2 out of 5
5 Ratings

5 Ratings

Jonny Fin ,

Not worth the money

The app works well when you know how to use it and helped with my tinnitus but the overall control and feel of the app could be updated. Works well when you get it set up correctly. Not sure it’s worth the price!

Developer Response ,

Dear JonnyFEELGOOD,

very sorry about your review and your misunderstanding in two points.
(1) The birds sound stops at once when you start to use the app. It is only hearable just with the app start. Didn't you actual notice that?
(2) Also this bird sound is a real live recording from our nature. Most people find a gentle bird sound loevely.

Generally you can always ask the support if you need any help. Everybody is wellcome.

Perhaps you think twice about your review and rather see how much this app can help you.

Best regards - Peer Dahl

Worn Buffet ,

Wonderful

I have been using this app for years and it has given me my life back. I also wear hearing aids and I use bone conducting headphones. I wear them all day long most days. OK, I look a bit odd. But I’m in my 70s and I don’t care. Ten years ago, my mental health was suffering because of the tinnitus and then I found this app. A miracle. I use one of the sounds of nature all the time, the summer rain. Thank you so much, words cannot express my gratitude.

Developer Response ,

Dear Worn Buffet, thank you so much for these nice lines. All the best for you and greetings - Peer Dahl

treytroy ,

Only very temporary relief

My very initial feedback on this app is that the relief it grants is at best half a minute.

Firstly I found finding my tinnitus frequency to be easier said than done, in fact I feel I could fall between a reasonable range and this makes me concerned I'm not getting exposure to the right sound.

What I'm then finding is when I listen to the sound and the stop it I get a momentary absence of tinnitus as if my ears/brain have realised the sound has stopped but then quite quickly the internal ringing picks back up. I'm actually then experiencing a heightened sense of it because I think the app is bringing the tinnitus to the front of my mind and I'm more acutely aware of it or I'm more aggressively sealing it out.

I'd be interested to hear if this is normal or expected. To be honest I've found a single masking CD work better

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Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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