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Scientists prove vagus-nerve stimulation can reverse tinnitus in rats and plan to apply wireless stimulators to humans.
As you know, if you've been dealing with this condition for any amount of time, the pathology is in the brain, not in the ear. The scientists reasoned from their studies that they could affect the brain reorganization and perhaps undo it.
Read more here...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/wireless-device-might-wring-out-ringing-in-the-ears
Hopefully they're on to something here.
As you know, if you've been dealing with this condition for any amount of time, the pathology is in the brain, not in the ear. The scientists reasoned from their studies that they could affect the brain reorganization and perhaps undo it.
Read more here...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/wireless-device-might-wring-out-ringing-in-the-ears
Hopefully they're on to something here.
investigational stage, and it is not yet available for sale or
clinical study use in the United States. That will start in Europe and testing will not be available in US until late 2012 at the earliest.