“can You Hear Me Now?” Beltone’s Answer to Tinnitus and Your Hearing Problem

Tinnitus is basically a noise or “strange sound” that develops within the ear rather than from the outside environment. This can occur in either one or both ears; with a frequent onset during a baby boomers 50’s or 60’s. These sounds have been described as different noises constantly playing in the ear, whether ringing, buzzing, humming, whistling or any similar sound. These episodes are uncontrollable and are often accompanied by various other symptoms; such as dizziness, pain in the ear, a sense of fullness in the ears and headaches. Tinnitus can affect anyone at any given time, but thanks to the wonderful workers at Beltone, we can all kiss our tinnitus problems away with just a little hearing aid.

Your Brain At Work
Beltone is a worldwide hearing brand that makes it their point of duty to provide quality solutions to the hearing impaired. They develop solutions to hearing problems that keep your needs as the point of focus. They have manufactured and distributed hearing aids that continue to evolve as they study tinnitus more intensively.  They have now come up with a different concept of tinnitus. They believe that tinnitus is simply perception in the brain, that upon noticing the tinnitus sound, a strong negative emotional response is triggered. As you begin to focus on the strange sound then your brain loses the ability to filter out irrelevant noises before it reaches consciousness. Due to this fact, they believe that by retraining the brain to filter out these irrelevant noises you should be able to get rid of this disturbance. Your clinician will be able to help you find relief with a combination of counseling and acoustic therapy using their signature Beltone Tinnitus Breaker (a hearing aid).

Acoustic Therapy
During acoustic therapy, the Beltone Tinnitus Breaker is used to help gradually reduce your focus from the tinnitus sound and guide your brain to change its response to the tinnitus. Eventually your negative perception and frustrated feelings will be reduced.  Through counseling your clinician will help you understand what exactly tinnitus is, why it affects you and how you can reduce these episodes.  He will also urge you to keep in mind that the treatment for tinnitus may take several months.  It is also very important that you maintain a healthy lifestyle when combating tinnitus as you will be required to fight the natural inclination to isolate yourself and avoid too many different sounds.  Be sure to relax as much as possible, you may find that meditation helps as well as a healthy diet and exercising regularly.
You may be required to wear the Beltone Tinnitus Breaker for up to eight hours a day and improvements can occur in as little as the first three months.  However, a long term successful treatment may require you to have acoustic therapy sessions for one year or more as managing your progress is an important part of your acoustic therapy. Simply a small price we must pay to regain our full hearing abilities.
So which would you prefer? Spending a lifetime of irritating sounds, with headaches, and feeling frustrated twenty–four hours a day or enrolling in the Beltone acoustic sessions and beginning to once again hear only the sounds that you want to hear?

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