SOMTUS™  Tinnitus Reduction Therapy

The flagship product in our company, Somtus™, has originated from over 2 years of research and development. Over 1000 people were comprehensively surveyed and over 250 were tested in the course of its creation.

 

This tinnitus reduction therapy is primarily aimed at combating temporary tinnitus. Tinnitus is a very complicated thing to isolate and break down. There are many possible causes and triggers which vary from sound trauma to stimulants or even just a stressful experience. Due to this, we concentrated on investigating the cause of one particular type of tinnitus and then in developing a remedy to this. Our Somtus™ therapy is designed to remove the ringing that is caused from loud sounds such as concert music, environmental noise or after using headphones. It has been tested extensively and demonstrated a 99% success rate in hugely reducing or removing the temporary tinnitus. In addition to this, it plays a part in removing residual headaches initially caused by the tinnitus. In effect it works towards restoring the quality of hearing that the individual had prior to experiencing sound trauma.

Restored Hearing prides itself on being very different from most other sound therapies currently available. We always strive towards using a basic scientific model to isolate a problem and then using scientific principles to solve and verify it. Somtus™ is no different. It works on the basis of using physical sound waves to solve a sound receptor problem.

Your ear contains a structure called The Cochlea. This sea-shell shaped part of your ear is brilliant in design. There are sound receptor cells positioned within this. Each of these cells is a sensitive hair like structure which responds to the slightest sound vibration entering the ear. Imagine looking at the very fine hairs on your skin and blowing on them. Each hair will bend over and back in tune with the breeze. The more you blow, the more they bend.

SOUND MOVING HAIRS

 

This is just like the cochlear hairs in your ear. The louder the sound waves entering your ear, the more these hairs bend. As they move in tune with the different strengths and frequencies of sound, they send signals via the auditory nerve to your brain. The brain then decodes these signals into individual sounds and lets you hear full songs or conversations.

MICROGRAPH OF COCHLEAR HAIRS

 

As you get older, some of these hairs weaken, bend and in the worse case break. This can cause natural loss in hearing ability. Much like any natural body part, age is responsible for the hairs not responding as quickly or sensitively to stimuli.

However, if you introduce very loud sounds from audio equipment or industrial machinery for instance, you cause these hairs to bend over severely and in some cases they break or get stuck on other hairs. The ones that break are unfortunately destroyed but the ones that get caught on other hairs are temporarily irritating. They are still sending signals to the brain and interfering with other hairs. In most cases this causes a phantom or false signal to be sent to the brain and the brain decodes this into a sound for you to hear. But this sound is not actually there. Like any other interference signal on radios or speakers, it is annoying and distracting. This is temporary tinnitus.

 

SOUND DAMAGE MICROGRAPHS

 

That explains the problem and the therapy is just as simple to explain. We realised that this interference from the cochlear hairs could be ended if the hairs could be manipulated back into position, in other words, re-straightened. Since sound waves caused this physical movement of hairs it was reasonable to assume that sound would also be capable of re-straightening them. Our Somtus™ tinnitus therapy works just like a comb being moved through hair. Those that are straight and not stuck to other hairs remain unaffected but those that are caught on other hairs are gently aligned back into position.

 

 

This immediately solves this problem of temporary tinnitus and helps the individual restore their normal hearing that they had prior to the sound trauma. Because the temporary tinnitus is eliminated or severely reduced, the stress of the situation diminishes, the residual headache associated with the ringing decreases and the ability to concentrate, relax or sleep increases. All of this is achieved within the time it takes for sound to move through the cochlear hairs. That is why our therapy lasts only one minute and is completely safe. It addresses the root of the problem in the same way as the original problem was caused. It also uses sound to manipulate the hairs and since the hairs were designed to respond to sound, they adjust themselves very quickly and without undue stress.

Somtus™ is a scientifically tested and verified method used to reverse an over stimulation of the ear. It will not re-grow hairs that have been broken by excessive damage but it will gently move the bent and interfering hairs back into their natural position. Thus the temporary tinnitus is very short lived and the individual can go back to their original state of hearing and get on with their life.

Because of its ease of access and fast results, it is an ideal method of removing temporary tinnitus caused by very loud sound and therefore it is highly suitable for use after concerts, listening to headphones too loudly or even being in a loud city environment for too long. The majority of our clients find it very useful before going to sleep or after arriving home. Although we strongly recommend limiting your exposure to loud noise so as to avoid broken hairs and permanent damage, this is a solution to one of the problems faced by millions every day.

Available online at any time of the day or night, and also as an iPhone application for those out and about.