she explained,
“The brain is constantly rewiring itself. When a sound pathway goes silent, the brain doesn’t understand the empty space.
So it starts searching for the missing signal — working harder and harder to find something that isn’t there.
It’s like a radio stuck between stations, scanning for a signal. As the brain keeps searching, it changes your baseline for silence.
Suddenly, quiet places — like a bedroom or a library — don’t feel quiet anymore.
It’s almost like your brain is listening to itself. For some, it’s a piercing whistle. For others, a soft hiss, a pulsing beat, or a constant whoosh that follows them everywhere.
That’s tinnitus. Your brain filling in the silence it doesn’t understand.
And this happens no matter what originally caused the tinnitus. whether it came from hearing loss, medication side effects, jaw clenching (TMJ), neck tension, sinus or jaw surgery, or even stress. The trigger may be different for each person, but the brain response is always the same.”
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She continued:
“When vibration therapy reaches the inner ear, it reactivates the exact neural pathways that went quiet. The ones your brain has been trying to ‘fill in’ by creating the ringing.”
He asked what kinds of sounds he should use.
“Simple ones,” she said. “Pure, steady frequency tones that match the exact pitch of your ringing.
Matching the frequency is like matching the shape of a key to a lock. If it's wrong, it won’t unlock relief.
When the tone lines up perfectly with your tinnitus, the two sounds blend, and your brain finally stops reacting to the ringing.”
“Play it at half the volume of the ringing — not louder. Those soft, steady vibrations give your brain a real signal to latch onto again.”
“And once your brain starts receiving the sound it’s been missing, the ringing naturally fades into the background. It stops standing out. It’s almost like your mind loses interest in it.”
“Just like physical therapy strengthens a weak muscle, vibration therapy strengthens the brain’s sound-processing pathways.