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tinnitus help app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 2752 ratings )
Health & Fitness Medical Lifestyle
Developer: IND-Ingenieurbuero f. Nachrichten- u. Datentechnik
15.99 USD
Current version: 2.06, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 25 Jul 2010
App size: 433.54 Mb

‘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.

Pros and cons of tinnitus help app for iPhone and iPad

tinnitus help app good for

I had an accouphene during 1,5 years that was constantly increasing in the left ear, and with the help of this software, It went away, where many ear-nose doctors / hno could never help me. The application is even much better than the machines they will propose to sell you. This application can help a lot of people and must never be retired from the consumer market! For me, selecting a nearby frequency than my accouphene made it slowly disapear, using a sea shore noise as a background.
I have used this app for just over a week now, and just upgraded to v1.17 & I am extremely happy with my purchase. I was suffering from VERY loud tinnitis and was not sure how to deal with it as there is no real cure for it. I saw that there were cheaper versions of tinnitis help programs on the Apps store and other places but this one sounded much better from the outlines for a few dollars more and I am sure I was correct. I have used the program 2-3 times a day for up to an hour each time and I have already had some substantial drop in the effect of my tinnitis. It feels as if it has mostly gone away, even though I know it cant be totally fixed. I now only have slight ringing and often do not have any sound. Silence can be SO golden. Its hard to believe the good felling of getting rid of the 24 hour noise in my head. If you want something to help your tinnitis I strongly recommend this product even though it costs a few dollars more than the other apps.

Some bad moments

I am just getting started, but it looks like this app might really help my tinnitus. It has everything!
This app is almost better than the expensive ($4,000 USD) Neuromonics device that I tried for a month. The build quality and frequency response on the Neuromonics device are poor and the thought of carrying yet another electronic gadget and wired headphones was very unattractive. Worse, the Neuromonics system stopped masking my tinnitus within hours of getting home with it. I believe the demo sound files were a better fit for me than the custom files I got to take home. Getting retested and updated sound files from the audiologist was a slow and expensive process and I gave up without ever getting a good set of files. This app does not solve the two device problem since the app does not function with the iPhone in sleep mode and it does not run in the background on iOS 4.x. Check your email, read an ebook, or preserve battery life and your tinnitus therapy will stop cold. When this is improved Ill add a star or two to the review. This app provides lots of options for creating a useful masking sound. I have never been able to get a frequency match, no matter what the tool or testing procedure. The pink, red brown, and white noise generators in this app are proving to be very useful in my case. On top of that you can layer one of 12 nature sounds and one of only two simple instrumental music tracks. The resulting therapy isnt exactly like Neuromonics. In that process they apparently do not simply layer sound on top of sound but use a subtractive process that results in the music having rapidly spaced gaps that allow the tinnitus matched sounds to peek through. The instructions for setting maximum volume are poorly written / translated into English but are close enough. With no way to run the app in the background or sleep the device, touching the screen accidentally or putting the iPhone in a pocket will likely stop the sound. It currently seems impossible to set the iPhone volume with sufficient precision using the hardware rocker switch on the side of the phone. The app really needs a master volume control that will make it easier to fine tune the therapy volume to levels between any two adjacent settings on the iPhone. For example, between mute and the first lowest volume setting on the iPhone is a large jump if you use noise isolating earphones. Id like to set the app volume to levels between the steps available on the device. I was determined to call the audiologist on Monday after struggling with another sleepless night but am glad I did an app search (yet again) for a Neuromonics replacement. With endless options to tweak the masking sounds in this app, it should be easy to keep the tinnitus well masked. I doubt that any app or Neuromonics have true value in treating tinnitus but this app can provide some peace.
Using this on an iPhone without the help of a trained audiologist defeats the purpose. Its difficult to set up your personal profile on the iPhone because you are forced to switch back and forth from the actual program to the instructions on how to use this complicated app. They need to send customers an actual manual by email so the steps can be followed while the user is navigating through the set-up routine. Unless your are gifted with a photographic memory, youll get lost in the maze of instructions. GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK, or send me the instructions so I can print them and follow each step as needed.
Hey guys (ladies) thanks for reading the reviews an making updates. Your updates an response are appreciated! --- Great idea and a good start. Needs: - Background option with iOS4 - Needs better audio control sensitivity - Option to choose a piece of music from your iTunes library.
I only had to read the operation info five times to sort out the jarbled language and doubled text. If you want someone to edit it Ill be glad to help. Otherwise it just looks like an 8 year old wrote it..
I’ve tried a few different apps to help reduce my Tinnitus and this works the best. I got pretty good results right away and even improved on that over a few months as I tweaked the settings. I was able to do this without an audiologist. I don’t introduce a tinnitus freq as that worsens my condition but this might work for you. Everyone is different and you need to determine what works for you. tinnitus freq can be turned off turning volume all the way down. For variety, I created a few playlists of soothing music that I overlay with sounds of nature (summer rain). I sometimes use the music that came with the app; that works too. I listen to it as I sleep, it is very soothing and I fall asleep quickly. My tinnitus was quite bad at one point and I didn’t know how I would live with it. With the help of this app I can make it almost nonexistent.