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Tinnitus What causes it?
How does it become a problem?
What can be done about it?
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Purpose of today session:
• Basic understanding of tinnitus
• Useful management advice
• Meet other people with similar condition
• Option for treatment if required
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Overview of Session
• What is tinnitus
• Anatomy and physiology of the ear
• Causes of tinnitus
• Hearing and hearing losses
• Model of tinnitus
• Treatment of tinnitus
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What’s in your pack?
• Hearing Test results
• Product Catalogues
• Tinnitus leaflets
• Self-help for tinnitus
• Copy of today’s presentation
• Further appointment request form
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The sensation of hearing a noise in the absence of any external sound
Ringing
Buzzing
Hissing
Pulsing
And many more…
What is tinnitus?
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Who gets it?
10% of adults in the UK
experience tinnitus frequently.
5% find the tinnitus
troublesome.
Tinnitus is not confined to the Elderly – it can occur
at any age!
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Overview of Session
• What is tinnitus
• Anatomy and physiology of the ear
• Causes of tinnitus
• Hearing and hearing losses
• Model of tinnitus
• Treatment of tinnitus
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Medial Reticular Formation
Limbic System
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Why do I have Tinnitus?
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The brain is actively filtering in information that it previously ignored.
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Overview of Session
• What is tinnitus
• Anatomy and physiology of the ear
• Causes of tinnitus
• Hearing and hearing losses
• Model of tinnitus
• Treatment of tinnitus
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Causes of Tinnitus
• Hearing loss
• Noise exposure
• Inner ear infection
• Ear conditions
• Stress
• Trauma
• Medication
• No known cause
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Referral to ENT or GP or for and MRI scan?
Ear, Nose and Throat
• Pulsatile tinnitus
• Clicking tinnitus
• Conductive hearing loss (hearing loss from the outer or middle ear)
• Fluctuating hearing
• Sudden or rapid hearing loss
GP • Significant dizziness
• Abnormal eardrums
• Pain in ears
• Ear infections
• Ear drums are not moving (glue ear)
MRI Scan • Asymmetric
hearing loss
• Tinnitus in only one ear
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Referral to ENT or GP?
Ear, Nose and Throat
About a five month wait –
they will contact you to arrange an
appointment
GP
We will write a referral letter you your
GP – please book an appointment with them as soon as
possible.
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Overview of Session
• What is tinnitus
• Anatomy and physiology of the ear
• Causes of tinnitus
• Hearing and hearing losses
• Model of tinnitus
• Treatment of tinnitus
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Your Hearing Test
Normal range
Mild
Moderate
Severe
Profound
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Age Related Hearing Loss
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Noise Exposure
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Overview of Session
• What is tinnitus
• Anatomy and physiology of the ear
• Causes of tinnitus
• Hearing and hearing losses
• Model of tinnitus
• Treatment of tinnitus
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How your Brain Reacts
• When you first hear tinnitus your mind doesn't know what to make of it!
• But as time goes on your mind may react in negative emotional ways.
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There is something wrong
I want silence
Will it get worse?
I can’t sleep
I can’t concentrate
Why am I am moody and
irritable?
How will I cope?
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The Heller and Bergman (1953) Experiment
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Where’s Wally?
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Why am I so troubled by the tinnitus?
• Background
• Emotional
• Communication
• Warning
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Tinnitus starts
Negative associations develop
Increased attention to tinnitus
Chronic tinnitus Increased awareness of tinnitus
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Autonomic Nervous System
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Model of Tinnitus
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Overview of Session
• What is tinnitus
• Anatomy and physiology of the ear
• Causes of tinnitus
• Hearing and hearing losses
• Model of tinnitus
• Treatment of tinnitus
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Habituation
Decrease in the response to a stimulus
after repeated exposure.
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Adapting to Tinnitus
Like moving to a house on a busy road – at first
all you notice is the traffic after a while you
don’t notice it.
Understanding how our brain reacts to
noise is the 1st step to being able to live with
Tinnitus
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Progressive Process
• The aim is to change how you react to the tinnitus.
• There may be days when you’re overtired or stressed and Tinnitus is more troublesome
• Learning how to change your reaction means the bad days will be fewer and further apart.
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How can we do that?
• Information and reassurance (todays session)
• Hearing aids
• Sound therapy
• Changing thoughts
• Sleep management
• Relaxation
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Hearing aids
• Any degree of hearing loss should be addressed because straining to listen makes tinnitus worse.
• Brings up external noises – reducing internal.
• Takes attention from Tinnitus.
• 3 Months acclimatisation.
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Sound Therapy Now used to “mingle” with Tinnitus
– Reduces perception of Tinnitus
– Allows habituation – Useful for people with
“normal” hearing
They produce quiet, natural sounds, such as a babbling brook, leaves rustling in the wind and waves lapping on the shore.
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Changing Thoughts
- Identifying and modifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours with regard to tinnitus.
- Removing negative connotations.
- Accepting the tinnitus noise.
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Sleep Management
• It’s normal for everyone with tinnitus to experience a period of sleep disturbance.
• Learning to switch your focus away from the tinnitus.
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Self help and Relaxation Relaxation techniques help to reduce stress.
Do the things that you enjoy!
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www.tinnituskit.com
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Sleep and Relaxation Group
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Maintaining Balance
• Strike a balance
• Quiet/ background noise
• Active/ relaxed
• Your Autonomic Nervous System will be back in balance
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Things to remember
• There are a variety of treatments that can help relieve your symptoms
• The key is thinking differently about your Tinnitus.
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Chasing Cures
• Chasing cures for tinnitus is counter-productive as it encourages you to focus on your tinnitus.
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What happens next?
First Name
Surname
Hospital Number
D.O.B
No Further Appointment
Appoinment To Discuss Hearing Aids
Appointment with Hearing Therapy
Group Information Session Outcome Form
Tick Here for
No further
Appointments
Tick Here To
discuss Hearing
Aid/s
Tick Here for an
appointment with
Hearing Therapy
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What happens next?
• If you would like a sound oasis see catalogue.
• If things change contact us directly either by email or phone.
• Head of Hearing Therapy is Claire Gatenby: email - [email protected]
• Department phone number is – 01603 287284
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Useful websites:
British Tinnitus Association: http://www.tinnitus.org.uk
NHS Choices: http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/HomePage.aspx
Hearing Link: http://www.hearinglink.org/tinnitus Relaxation tutorial: http://www.uctv.tv/search-
details.aspx?showID=18750&subject=health
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