Investigating potential cures for tinnitus, a hearing loss condition

Imagine continuous noise in your ears with no respite. With tinnitus, a hearing loss condition, there can be ringing and ringing non-stop. Burying your head under a pillow is no use.

Such phantom noise can ruin life quality, and brings a whole new meaning to the expression "living nightmare".

Some sufferers can describe it as a piercing, constant whistle and the volume apparently escalates when tired and stressed.

Tinnitus is a never-ending scourge that can affect millions in the UK some six million Brits suffer from it, in fact.

Workplaces with high noise levels can cause tinnitus and many people make a work injury claim for the damage caused but that doesn't cancel out the ringing in the ears.

What can be done about tinnitus is a cure on the horizon?

Encouraging signs of a cure are starting to emerge, although they seem to be glimmers of hope rather than roaring fires.

Still, a future cure is looking more likely than it has ever done. Here at YouClaim, the no win, no fee compensation specialists, we took a quick look round at areas where potential cures might lie.

Magnetism
Passing a magnetic fields near to patients skulls has been found to reduce the ringing and hearing problems. In one case, a patient was cured. tinnitus. Read more about magnetic treatment.

Electrodes
Operations to implant electrodes into the brain can prevent the hearing loss condition, according to medical research.

Anaesthetic
Lidocaine, a frequently-used anaesthetic, has been found to stop ear noise for several minutes at a time, highlighting that it is possible to stop tinnitus.

All these areas of scientific and medical exploration pinpoint a key finding that tinnitus is not so much ringing in the ears but, in fact, ringing in the brain.

It is the brain that these potential treatments are focused on fixing.

Industrial deafness compensation claims
Affected by noise-induced deafness? You can contact our panel of no win, no fee personal injury solicitors for free legal advice about making a claim.

With nothing to pay for checking and pursuing a claim, why not give us a try? Our success rate is excellent.

When you consider that employers are legally obliged to make sure employees hearing is protected in the workplace - then if your hearing was damaged at work, you may have a case.

To find out whether the tinnitus you suffer from is worth you making a compensation claim for, just give us a free phone call now on 0800 107 57 95 or complete our claim form which is easy-to-complete online.