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To: Red Badger
Although there are many causes for tinnitus (noise induced hearing loss, head trauma, drugs, etc.), the overwhelming consensus on subjective tinnitus is that it is a "brain" problem, not an "ear" problem.

I can see tapping possibly affecting the inner ear fluid, but I don't see how it can result in a reorganization of hearing neurology, undoing the reorganzation that causes the tinnitus percept according to Jastreboff:


68 posted on 10/14/2011 3:15:46 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: waterhill

Ping to post 68.


76 posted on 10/15/2011 5:55:03 PM PDT by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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