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December 30, 2009, Wednesday
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INDIVIDUALLY designed music therapy may help reduce noise levels in people suffering from tinnitus, or ear ringing, German scientists said.
The researchers designed musical treatments adapted to the musical tastes of patients with ear-ringing and then stripped out sound frequencies matching the individual's tinnitus frequency.
After a year of listening to these "notched" musical therapies, patients reported a distinct decrease in the loudness of ringing compared with those who had listened to non-tailored placebo music, the researchers wrote in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on Monday.
Tinnitus is a common problem in industrialized countries and the ear-ringing can be loud enough to harm quality of life in between 1 and 3 percent of the general population, researchers said.
A European Union health panel raised the alarm in January about the potential hearing damage caused by young people playing their MP3 players too loud.
A specialized EU committee warned then that listening to personal music devices at high volume for long periods could cause hearing loss and tinnitus, prompting the European Commission to issue new safe volume standards for MP3 players.
The German researchers said the precise cause of tinnitus was not known.
The researchers designed musical treatments adapted to the musical tastes of patients with ear-ringing and then stripped out sound frequencies matching the individual's tinnitus frequency.
After a year of listening to these "notched" musical therapies, patients reported a distinct decrease in the loudness of ringing compared with those who had listened to non-tailored placebo music, the researchers wrote in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on Monday.
Tinnitus is a common problem in industrialized countries and the ear-ringing can be loud enough to harm quality of life in between 1 and 3 percent of the general population, researchers said.
A European Union health panel raised the alarm in January about the potential hearing damage caused by young people playing their MP3 players too loud.
A specialized EU committee warned then that listening to personal music devices at high volume for long periods could cause hearing loss and tinnitus, prompting the European Commission to issue new safe volume standards for MP3 players.
The German researchers said the precise cause of tinnitus was not known.
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