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Tinnitus
Retraining Therapy In
1990 Professor Pawel J. Jastreboff of the
University of Maryland School of Medicine first
published papers describing his "neurophysiological
model of tinnitus". Dr. Jonathan Hazell of the U.K.
used Jastreboff's principles of tinnitus
management, and applied it clinically to his
patients. This is the basis of what we call
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (called Auditory
Habituation at the time). Tinnitus Retraining
Therapy depends on two factors: Tinnitus
Retraining Therapy (TRT) has a success rate
greater than 80% in substantially improving
tinnitus perception and annoyance:
Sheldrake(1996); Bartnik, (1999); Heitzman
(1999); Herraiz, (1999); Jastreboff (2001); Mc
Kinney (1999). That is, patients often report
that their tinnitus ceases to be an issue in their
lives. This approach employs the temporary use of
soft sound, often in the form of broad band "white
noise" generators purposely set at a volume that
does not mask the tinnitus. The contrast between
the tinnitus signal and environmental sounds is
thereby decreased, thus facilitating habituation to
the tinnitus signal. Habituation means that the
subconscious mind is passively retrained to filter
out and not respond to the tinnitus signal the same
way the subconscious mind naturally filters out the
meaningless sound of a refrigerator or a computer
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