When to Seek Professional Tinnitus Treatment
A tricky thing about tinnitus is that it’s a subjective condition. It’s easy to point to other conditions, like a broken bone, for example, and assess how severe it is just by looking at it, but you can’t do that with tinnitus. Because of this, many patients struggle to know if their tinnitus is “severe”…
Understanding the Difference Between Tinnitus and Hearing Loss
The easiest way to think about the difference between hearing loss and tinnitus is with a real-life example. Hearing in Action When you hear a bird call, the sound waves are funneled into your auditory canal by your ear, turned into electrical signals between your auditory canal and brain, and processed by your brain as…
