How Did The Doctor Get Involved With Tinnitus Treatments?
“His Friend Had Wanted To Commit Suicide!” He told Ellen that he had commenced research into tinnitus because of a friend of his that had come close to committing suicide as a result of tinnitus! His friend’s tinnitus started shortly after the loss of his son in a motor accident. The doctor started his friend on a course of treatments designed to stimulate the hypothalamus. When those tinnitus treatments alone were less than successful, he adopted this multi-faceted approach that he was now advocating for Ellen. In an effort to stop the tinnitus, he would treat both the hypothalamus and the cochlea damage! He based this course of action on the fact that his friend had been a musician in a band for many years and had probably suffered from damage to the cochlea (and hearing loss) as a result of the exposure to loud noise and had suffered severe trauma with the loss of his son. So essentially the two tinnitus cases were similar… Both had been exposed to loud noises and had suffered fro
