TinniTranquil Tinnitus Treatment Music Player app for iPhone and iPad

TinniTranquil: Treat your tinnitus while listening to your favorite music! This app implements the tailor-made notched music training method (TMNMT) for patients suffering from chronic tonal tinnitus. Very few cases of tinnitus have a physical cause. Instead, it is a “false signal” generated in the auditory cortex: there is no real sound, but the impression of ringing or hissing is caused by overactivity in nerve cells.

Several studies have shown that subjective tinnitus loudness, tinnitus-related distress, and tinnitus-related activity of the auditory cortex can be significantly reduced by completing a course of TMNMT.


Requirements

The treatment has been shown to be effective for:

• chronic
• subjective
• tonal tinnitus
• with a stable frequency below 8500 Hz

You may first want to consult your ENT doctor if you do not meet all of these criteria. He or she can also help you to measure your perceived tinnitus frequency. If you want to measure the frequency yourself, just type “measure tinnitus frequency” into your favorite search engine on your computer or take a look at the free iPhone app called “Tinnitus Measurer”.


How does it work?

The treatment works by listening to music that has been filtered to remove a range of frequencies: A complete octave, centered at your tinnitus frequency, is eliminated from the audio signal.

This reduces the activity of the over-stimulated neurons and, thereby, significantly reduces the tinnitus over the course of several months of treatment.


Instructions

For the therapy to work, you need to make sure you have an accurate reading of your tinnitus frequency and that it is entered correctly on the settings screen. Find a quiet place to listen to the filtered music using headphones:

• daily for at least 60 to 90 minutes and
• over a period of at least four months


Advantages

• High-fidelity (linear phase) digital filters with best-in-class attenuation in the stop-band.
• Real-time filter with extremely efficient implementation reduces energy consumption.
• Listen to your complete (DRM free) music collection straight away.
• Automatic recognition whether a song is suitable for your treatment.
• No need to select, upload, wait for filtering on a server, then download before a song can be used, thus saving time and bandwidth (unlike other similar apps).
• Better audio quality with direct play back of filtered audio (no additional lossy compression, unlike other similar apps).
• Doesnt waste space by keeping two copies of every song (unlike other similar apps).
• No need to register. Just enable iCloud to sync your subscription data to additional devices.

Feedback

I hope this app works for you. If there are any issues or if you have any suggestions for improving the app, please write to me and I will try to fix them:

florian -at- logera -minus- solutions.com