Medical Treatment of Tinnitus

Re Stimulate the Nerve. Reduce the Ringing.

Medical tinnitus treatment works by restoring sound activity to your auditory system. That retrains your brain to properly identify sound and suppress the mistaken neural activity behind the ringing.

What Medical Treatment Does

Restoring Sound to Retrain the Auditory System

Patients who choose medical treatment for their tinnitus often live confident and independent lives, free from frustrating ringing, swooshing, or buzzing in their ears. Our most successful patients chose our advanced treatment process to restore the sound activity to the auditory system.

In doing so, the sounds provided by our treatment process work to retrain the auditory system to properly identify sounds and suppress the mistaken increase in neural activity.

The Success Rate

80%+

Chance of Reduced or Eliminated Tinnitus Perception

When done properly, patients living with tinnitus have an 80%+ chance of living with reduced, and often eliminated, tinnitus perception.

Two Approaches Explained

Direct Treatment vs Indirect Distraction

Not all tinnitus treatments are created equal. One retrains the auditory system at its source. The other simply tries to distract you.

Our Recommended Approach

Direct Treatment

The most effective, and direct, treatment of tinnitus is to provide proper stimulation to your auditory system, including your ear to brain nerve. Using modern treatment technology, our team begins your prescription at around 80% of the sound stimuli your nerve requires, then builds from there.

The Less Effective Approach

Indirect Distraction

An indirect, and less effective, approach is distracting your mind away from the constant ringing, whooshing, or buzzing by introducing an additional sound. Common noises used include white noise, music, sleeping with the TV on, keeping a fan on, and non FDA approved tinnitus maskers.

The Problem With Distraction

Why Indirect Distraction Falls Short

Indirect approaches ask your brain to focus on different sounds instead of the tinnitus. The techniques are used to distract your brain by giving it something else to pay attention to.

One of the main issues with this approach is that patients often feel they are trading one bothersome sound for another.

Why Distraction Fails

Your Treatment Timeline

What Direct Treatment Looks Like Week to Week

Direct medical treatment follows a clear, gradual protocol so your brain adjusts comfortably at every step.

Visit 1

Begin at 80% of Full Prescription

Your first visit starts your treatment at around 80% of the sound stimuli your nerve requires, using modern treatment technology.

30 to 45 Days

Gradually Increase Support

Over three to four follow up visits, roughly 30 to 45 days, we gradually increase the amount of sound support to your auditory system until you reach your full prescription.

Ongoing

Fine Tune and Modify

We continue to fine tune your prescription and make frequency modifications that let you put the frustration, irritation, and distraction of tinnitus behind you permanently.

Watch and Learn

Dr. Darrow Explains Modern Tinnitus Treatment

Watch Dr. Keith N. Darrow, Ph.D., Harvard Medical and M.I.T. trained Neuroscientist, explain how modern medical treatment works to retrain the auditory system and reduce tinnitus perception.

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Real Story, Real Results

Silence the Ringing

Randy Wohlers, BC HIS, Owner at Family Hearing Center, shares his 50 year journey with tinnitus. Dr. Keith N. Darrow, Ph.D., Harvard Medical and M.I.T. trained Neuroscientist, Certified Dementia Practitioner, and Clinical Audiologist explains why gimmicks fail and why this proven treatment works.

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What to Expect on Your First Visit

Get to Know You & Understand Your Symptoms

Discuss Your Treatment Goals & Medical History

Determine Your Stage of Hearing Loss/Tinnitus

Answer All of Your Questions or Concerns

Begin a Custom Treatment Plan

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Our Clinics

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Four convenient clinics across Oahu. Find the one closest to you.

Honolulu

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Mon to Fri 8AM to 4:30PM, Sat 8AM to 4:30PM

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Kaneohe

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Pearl City

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Mon to Fri 8AM to 4:30PM, Sat 8AM to 4:30PM

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Kahala

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Mon 8AM to 4:30PM

Closed daily 12PM to 1PM