Tinnitus Evaluations & Management
If you’ve been told “there’s nothing we can do,” you’ve been told wrong. Tinnitus can be measured, understood and managed. Most people aren’t looking for silence. They want to sleep, focus and stop thinking about it all day. That’s what our programs are built to do.
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Tinnitus Evaluation and Treatment Services
We provide specialized care for people living with tinnitus, from mild ringing that comes and goes to persistent sounds that disrupt daily life. Every plan starts with a comprehensive hearing assessment and tinnitus evaluation, because understanding your hearing is key to understanding your tinnitus.
Our practice was founded by Dr. Natan Bauman, who established a tinnitus and sound sensitivity clinic early in his 40-plus-year career and teaches his treatment methods to practitioners nationally and internationally. Today, our team offers options including Lenire, Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, and Dr. Bauman’s own CHaTT program.
Your Tinnitus Plan
Our tinnitus program combines detailed testing with decades of specialized experience. We work with you to understand what’s driving your tinnitus, then build a management plan that addresses both immediate relief and long-term success.
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Evaluation
A hearing test plus tinnitus-specific measures. We check the pitch and loudness of your tinnitus and learn how it affects your sleep, focus, and mood.
Explanation
What’s driving your tinnitus and why it feels the way it does. We walk you through your results so you understand exactly what you’re dealing with.
Treatment
Sound therapy, hearing aids with tinnitus features, counseling-based programs like Dr. Bauman’s CHaTT and Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, or Lenire. Together we choose the approach that fits your needs.
Follow-up
We track your progress and adjust until it’s working. Visits can be in person or by telehealth.
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Why Professional Tinnitus Care Matters
Tinnitus often starts quietly, but as it grows louder, it can disrupt sleep, raise stress, and lower productivity. That stress can make tinnitus even more noticeable, creating a cycle that’s hard to break on your own. Professional care interrupts that cycle with proven, research-based strategies tailored to you.
Benefits of Tinnitus Management
Professional tinnitus management combines sound-based therapies with practical coping strategies to reduce how much tinnitus affects you. Our experienced team provides individualized care and support to help you feel more in control each day.
Better sleep and less tinnitus-related stress and anxiety
Improved focus at work, at home, and in conversation
Ongoing expert support for long-term tinnitus relief
There is no cure for tinnitus yet, but many effective management options can make it far less noticeable and disruptive to daily life.
The exact cause isn’t fully known. A leading theory suggests the brain creates sound to fill in for signals it no longer receives due to hearing loss.
Many people with hearing loss find relief with hearing aids, which restore missing sounds and can include built-in sound therapy features.
If your tinnitus came on suddenly, is in one ear only, or pulses with your heartbeat, please contact your physician or our office promptly.
Common Questions About Tinnitus
Tinnitus can feel confusing and frustrating, especially when you’re not sure where to turn. Here are answers to some of the questions our patients ask most often about evaluation and treatment.
What Causes Tinnitus?
The specific cause of tinnitus has not yet been identified. However, the Central Gain Theory is the prevailing theory surrounding why individuals with a hearing loss experience tinnitus and tinnitus-related symptoms.
Proponents of this theory argue that tinnitus occurs when your brain creates sounds that are no longer received through the normal hearing process. Tinnitus is similar to the “phantom limb” experienced by amputees—it is an adaptive, neurological response by your brain to replace a missing brain sound.
Statistics show that 75% of people with some level of hearing loss also complain of symptoms that include a ringing, buzzing, hissing or humming sound in their ears. Although it does not cause hearing loss, tinnitus can be a major indicator of mild to severe hearing loss.
In its initial stages, tinnitus often goes unnoticed or may come and go; however, as the sounds intensify, common consequences include loss of sleep, increased stress and decreased productivity. Greater awareness of the condition typically follows, which increases the level of stress, in turn intensifying the condition, producing a snowball effect.
Ways To Manage Tinnitus
Though there is no cure for tinnitus, there are several ways of managing it—including one developed by Dr. Bauman. Options include:
- Maskers (decrease sound awareness)
- Medication therapy (reduces stress and anxiety as well as aids sleep)
- Levo Systems (zero out sound by matching the quality and volume of the sound)
- Desync sound therapy (disrupts the neural signal from tinnitus)
- The Listening Program® SLEEP (provides nature sounds and ambient music to retrain how the brain interprets sound)
- The Sound Pillow® Sleep System (relaxes the body and slows down the brain to promote sustainable sleep)
- Hearing aids (correct hearing loss while providing environmental sound masking)
- Alternative therapies (neuraminic therapy, psychological counseling, biofeedback and relaxation techniques deal with stress and anxiety)
- Cognitive Habituation Tinnitus Therapy (CHaTT) (Dr. Natan Bauman’s individualized tinnitus retraining program, consisting of sound therapy combined with a personalized therapy program based on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness)
The effectiveness of these various management techniques varies from one patient to the next and may include a combination of techniques guided by a professional.
Tinnitus Management Leads to a Rewarding and Productive Lifestyle
A hearing assessment and tinnitus evaluation are critical first steps for establishing a plan to manage tinnitus. Our tinnitus management techniques are built on well-established research and experience that have produced measurable results.
With the ongoing support of our well-trained professionals, managing your tinnitus will lead to a more rewarding and productive lifestyle. If you or a loved one is struggling with tinnitus, then schedule an appointment with our tinnitus experts.
