Tinnitus simulator

SIMULATION OF HEARING PROBLEMS : TINNITUS Tinnitus is very common. After 60 years, 10% to 20% of people suffer from tinnitus at one time or another. This can be temporary or final. The main risk factor for tinnitus is hearing loss, deafness often linked to loss of high frequencies. In young people, the main cause of hearing loss, and therefore of tinnitus, corresponds to sound trauma, due in particular to loud music. In the less young, the main cause is presbycusis, that is to say the hearing loss which occurs quite often over the years. Tinnitus is simple noise heard in his head or in his ears, and which have no external origin. There are two very different kinds of tinnitus: - Objective tinnitus corresponds to real noises that occur inside the body, and that we hear. For example, it can happen that an artery is narrowed and that the blood makes noise while passing there, noise which one can hear like a breath which pulsates at the rate / rhythm of the body, -Subjective tinnitus corresponds to whistling or buzzing created from scratch by the hearing system. In order to better understand this problem, we offer a headset equipped with a player that allows you to hear a series of sounds heard by people suffering from tinnitus.