Debuts Next-Generation Device to Treat Tinnitus

Neuromonics is a clinically proven treatment for tinnitus (ringing in the ears). In a clinical trial, 91% of subjects using Neuromonics achieved a clinically significant improvement in their tinnitus disturbance, and 80% reported a level of disturbance that was no longer clinically significant at six months.

Tinnitus is not a disorder itself, but rather a symptom of some other underlying health condition. Tinnitus can be a temporary condition or a chronic ailment. Exposure to loud noise often triggers tinnitus symptoms. Tinnitus sufferers commonly describe sounds like buzzing, ringing, humming, hissing, roaring or whistling heard in the absence of any external sound.

Tinnitus affects an estimated 10-15% of the population around the globe. More than 50 million people in the United States suffer from this condition, according to the American Tinnitus Association. Tinnitus is especially significant in the military worldwide.

The Connection Between Stress and Tinnitus

The ringing or buzzing sound is merely a symptom, but it triggers a very real physical reaction in the brain, the Emotional Response (or limbic system activation). This is your body’s “fight or flight” mechanism. When your brain hears the sound and labels it as a threat, it pumps stress hormones, increasing your anxiety, tension, and even making the tinnitus seem louder. This creates a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle.

Your Most Pleasant Prescription: Relaxation

The great news is that the Neuromonics approach uses your app time to directly interrupt this cycle. The treatment is specifically designed to condition a relaxation response to the acoustic stimulus. By consistently pairing customized music with moments of calm, you are literally teaching your brain to re-label the tinnitus signal from “DANGER” to “NEUTRAL.”

Tips for Success:

Practice Active Relaxation: Try to use your app during focused moments of calm. This is a physical skill that requires practice; you cannot force relaxation, but you can create the conditions for it.
Offload Stress: Stress will make your tinnitus worse. Practice key stress management techniques like planning ahead, prioritizing tasks, or taking a moment to breathe.
The Power of Music: Neuromonics’ music is a therapeutic medium that has been shown to be as effective as muscle relaxation in generating a relaxation response.

Neuromonics Oasis Ringing Ears Treatment

At last, a tinnitus treatment with long-term relief

The next-generation Neuromonics Oasis™ is the FDA-cleared, patented and clinically proven medical device with documented long-term relief of tinnitus. Using this customized tinnitus treatment, you can be on your way to significant relief from ringing in your ears.

Much more than a tinnitus retraining therapy

The Neuromonics Oasis is prescribed by a trained audiologist and is easy to use. It resembles a small, digital consumer music player. Your audiologist will program the device with a customized tone that desensitizes you to the sounds of tinnitus.

The Oasis works with the Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment (NTT). The program treats the underlying causes of tinnitus. It helps the brain overcome the initial damage caused to the auditory system and reduces the brain’s interpretation of tinnitus sounds as harmful.

The NTT is not a tinnitus retraining therapy, but a comprehensive program that can provide long-term relief under the care of a trained audiologist.

Key features of the next-generation Oasis tinnitus treatment

In-office fitting via NOAH interface, enabling same-day fitting for patients
Additional music selections over previous Oasis version
Micro-USB for easy charging and data transfer
Easy to use, convenient
Treatment program of six to eight months in duration
In-depth tinnitus assessment
Coordinated follow-up visits
Backed by more than 15 years of research and clinical efficacy data

Haven – A Customized Tinnitus Treatment

Individualized tinnitus treatment, programmed for a patient’s own audiogram.

The Haven™ provides personally tuned tinnitus relief you expect from Neuromonics with on-demand use when you need tinnitus relief.The Haven is available by prescription and is programmed by your audiologist. It’s not a masking device or a re-training tool. The Haven’s customized tinnitus treatment promotes new neural connections in your brain’s hearing and limbic system to filter out the tinnitus signal.

Those who can benefit:

Those who require an individualized spectral profile
Those who want a tinnitus management strategy, not a long-term treatment program.

Relief when you need it, where you need it.

Finally, those needing on-demand relief from the ringing in their ears have an option: the Sanctuary™ from Neuromonics.

Tinnitus symptoms can surface when you least expect it – at work, in the car, during moments with your family. In fact, not knowing when tinnitus will strike can be its greatest torment.

Now, with the Sanctuary, immediate relief – a halt to the ringing in the ears – is moments away.

The Sanctuary functions much like digital consumer music players and fits easily into patients’ lifestyles. The Sanctuary blends high-frequency signals with music to provide on-demand and on-the-go relief to the sufferer.

The Sanctuary is designed for situational relief. In contrast, the Neuromonics Oasis device is a long-term treatment program.