Your Tinnitus Specialists in Northern Utah
Have you ever experienced a ringing or buzzing sound in your ears after a major sporting event, a loud concert, a night in the club, or after discharging a firearm without ear protection? The sound you’re experiencing is known as tinnitus.
Statistics show that tinnitus affects about 75% of Americans in some form. Although most experience only temporary tinnitus, which only lingers for a few minutes or hours, some are subjected to a constant ringing 24/7, making it difficult to concentrate while working or studying, trying to relax, or attempting to get a good night’s sleep.
If you are among those hampered by the ongoing neurological disorder known as tinnitus, then you might be at your wit’s end searching for a tinnitus specialist near you and a solution to the constant ringing in your ears.
You’ve come to the right place. Each of the Utah Ear Institute hearing and balance centers in Bountiful, Tooele, Park City, and West Valley City include a tinnitus specialist who understands your struggle with tinnitus and is eager to provide the solutions you’re hoping to find.
Our founder, Dr. Joshua Luekenga, is a Certificate Holder in Tinnitus Management (CH-TM), meaning that he is exceptionally qualified to help any patient with tinnitus thanks to in-depth research and training into causes and treatment for tinnitus.
Statistics show that tinnitus affects about 75% of Americans in some form. Although most experience only temporary tinnitus, which only lingers for a few minutes or hours, some are subjected to a constant ringing 24/7, making it difficult to concentrate while working or studying, trying to relax, or attempting to get a good night’s sleep.
If you are among those hampered by the ongoing neurological disorder known as tinnitus, then you might be at your wit’s end searching for a tinnitus specialist near you and a solution to the constant ringing in your ears.
You’ve come to the right place. Each of the Utah Ear Institute hearing and balance centers in Bountiful, Tooele, Park City, and West Valley City include a tinnitus specialist who understands your struggle with tinnitus and is eager to provide the solutions you’re hoping to find.
Our founder, Dr. Joshua Luekenga, is a Certificate Holder in Tinnitus Management (CH-TM), meaning that he is exceptionally qualified to help any patient with tinnitus thanks to in-depth research and training into causes and treatment for tinnitus.
Statistics show that tinnitus affects about 75% of Americans in some form. Although most experience only temporary tinnitus, which only lingers for a few minutes or hours, some are subjected to a constant ringing 24/7, making it difficult to concentrate while working or studying, trying to relax, or attempting to get a good night’s sleep.
If you are among those hampered by the ongoing neurological disorder known as tinnitus, then you might be at your wit’s end searching for a tinnitus specialist near you and a solution to the constant ringing in your ears.
You’ve come to the right place. Each of the Utah Ear Institute hearing and balance centers in Bountiful, Tooele, Park City, and West Valley City include a tinnitus specialist who understands your struggle with tinnitus and is eager to provide the solutions you’re hoping to find.
Our founder, Dr. Joshua Luekenga, is a Certificate Holder in Tinnitus Management (CH-TM), meaning that he is exceptionally qualified to help any patient with tinnitus thanks to in-depth research and training into causes and treatment for tinnitus.
How We Can Stop the Ringing in Your Ears
Tinnitus is a symptom, not a disease. Since it may be symptomatic of another disorder, it is necessary for your audiologist to test for and rule out possible causes before deciding on treatment, which could include one or several approaches, such as
Medications
In some cases, medications or the medication combinations you are using to treat other conditions can cause tinnitus and changing to a different formula can help alleviate symptoms. Some who experience tinnitus benefit from the help of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications as well as lipoflavonoids, which require additional research in order to further evaluate its effectiveness.
Rotary Chair Test
This form of therapy involves the use of an externally produced sound to mask, inhibit, or alter the production of tinnitus sounds. Six common methods of acoustic stimulation include
A sound generator or tinnitus masker, which is an ear-level electronic device housed in a hearing aid case that produces white noise.
A tinnitus instrument, which is a combination hearing aid and sound generator.
Hearing aids, which amplify sounds and stimulate areas of the ear and brain that may not be receiving adequate stimulation because of hearing loss.
A tabletop or portable sound generator.
In-home masking, such as the use of an electric fan, radios, or television.
Music therapy.
Music Therapy
Some consider masking noise as substituting one annoying sound with another. Those annoyed by white noise and other masking sounds often prefer music therapy. Classical passages that don’t contain wide variations in loudness can soothe the limbic system (the emotional processor in the brain that is commonly negatively linked to a patient’s reaction to tinnitus) and stimulate the auditory cortex.
Auditory Habituation/Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)
One of the most successful forms of tinnitus management, TRT, involves directive counseling and low-level sound masking. The objective is to help the brain relearn a pattern that will de-emphasize the importance of the tinnitus sounds, which is particularly helpful in desensitizing patients who are overly sensitive to sound.
Directive counseling provides intensive, individualized education regarding the causes and effects of tinnitus on the ear, the brain, and the coping mechanism. Because stress plays a significant role in the aggravation of tinnitus symptoms, stress management can help combat the stress, anxiety, and sleep disturbances associated with tinnitus. Coping methods may include relaxation, guided imagery, and self-hypnosis.
Adding the combination of low-level masking produces broadband noise via hearing aid type devices to soften the intensity without completely blocking out the noise of tinnitus in order to help facilitate auditory habituation.
Hearing Aids
The use of hearing aids and hearing aids with maskers are often effective ways to minimize tinnitus for those with a hearing loss. Masking is achieved by amplifying background sounds, which reduces the contrast between tinnitus sounds and silence, altering the production of tinnitus, or by adding low-level acoustic therapy.
How We Can Stop the Ringing in Your Ears
Tinnitus is a symptom, not a disease. Since it may be symptomatic of another disorder, it is necessary for your audiologist to test for and rule out possible causes before deciding on treatment, which could include one or several approaches, such as
Medications
In some cases, medications or the medication combinations you are using to treat other conditions can cause tinnitus and changing to a different formula can help alleviate symptoms. Some who experience tinnitus benefit from the help of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications as well as lipoflavonoids, which require additional research in order to further evaluate its effectiveness.
Rotary Chair Test
This form of therapy involves the use of an externally produced sound to mask, inhibit, or alter the production of tinnitus sounds. Six common methods of acoustic stimulation include
A sound generator or tinnitus masker, which is an ear-level electronic device housed in a hearing aid case that produces white noise.
A tinnitus instrument, which is a combination hearing aid and sound generator.
Hearing aids, which amplify sounds and stimulate areas of the ear and brain that may not be receiving adequate stimulation because of hearing loss.
A tabletop or portable sound generator.
In-home masking, such as the use of an electric fan, radios, or television.
Music therapy.
Music Therapy
Some consider masking noise as substituting one annoying sound with another. Those annoyed by white noise and other masking sounds often prefer music therapy. Classical passages that don’t contain wide variations in loudness can soothe the limbic system (the emotional processor in the brain that is commonly negatively linked to a patient’s reaction to tinnitus) and stimulate the auditory cortex.
Auditory Habituation/Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)
One of the most successful forms of tinnitus management, TRT, involves directive counseling and low-level sound masking. The objective is to help the brain relearn a pattern that will de-emphasize the importance of the tinnitus sounds, which is particularly helpful in desensitizing patients who are overly sensitive to sound.
Directive counseling provides intensive, individualized education regarding the causes and effects of tinnitus on the ear, the brain, and the coping mechanism. Because stress plays a significant role in the aggravation of tinnitus symptoms, stress management can help combat the stress, anxiety, and sleep disturbances associated with tinnitus. Coping methods may include relaxation, guided imagery, and self-hypnosis.
Adding the combination of low-level masking produces broadband noise via hearing aid type devices to soften the intensity without completely blocking out the noise of tinnitus in order to help facilitate auditory habituation.
Hearing Aids
The use of hearing aids and hearing aids with maskers are often effective ways to minimize tinnitus for those with a hearing loss. Masking is achieved by amplifying background sounds, which reduces the contrast between tinnitus sounds and silence, altering the production of tinnitus, or by adding low-level acoustic therapy.
How We Can Stop the Ringing in Your Ears
Tinnitus is a symptom, not a disease. Since it may be symptomatic of another disorder, it is necessary for your audiologist to test for and rule out possible causes before deciding on treatment, which could include one or several approaches, such as
Medications
In some cases, medications or the medication combinations you are using to treat other conditions can cause tinnitus and changing to a different formula can help alleviate symptoms. Some who experience tinnitus benefit from the help of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications as well as lipoflavonoids, which require additional research in order to further evaluate its effectiveness.
Rotary Chair Test
This form of therapy involves the use of an externally produced sound to mask, inhibit, or alter the production of tinnitus sounds. Six common methods of acoustic stimulation include
A sound generator or tinnitus masker, which is an ear-level electronic device housed in a hearing aid case that produces white noise.
A tinnitus instrument, which is a combination hearing aid and sound generator.
Hearing aids, which amplify sounds and stimulate areas of the ear and brain that may not be receiving adequate stimulation because of hearing loss.
A tabletop or portable sound generator.
In-home masking, such as the use of an electric fan, radios, or television.
Music therapy.
Music Therapy
Some consider masking noise as substituting one annoying sound with another. Those annoyed by white noise and other masking sounds often prefer music therapy. Classical passages that don’t contain wide variations in loudness can soothe the limbic system (the emotional processor in the brain that is commonly negatively linked to a patient’s reaction to tinnitus) and stimulate the auditory cortex.
Auditory Habituation/Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)
One of the most successful forms of tinnitus management, TRT, involves directive counseling and low-level sound masking. The objective is to help the brain relearn a pattern that will de-emphasize the importance of the tinnitus sounds, which is particularly helpful in desensitizing patients who are overly sensitive to sound.
Directive counseling provides intensive, individualized education regarding the causes and effects of tinnitus on the ear, the brain, and the coping mechanism. Because stress plays a significant role in the aggravation of tinnitus symptoms, stress management can help combat the stress, anxiety, and sleep disturbances associated with tinnitus. Coping methods may include relaxation, guided imagery, and self-hypnosis.
Adding the combination of low-level masking produces broadband noise via hearing aid type devices to soften the intensity without completely blocking out the noise of tinnitus in order to help facilitate auditory habituation.
Hearing Aids
The use of hearing aids and hearing aids with maskers are often effective ways to minimize tinnitus for those with a hearing loss. Masking is achieved by amplifying background sounds, which reduces the contrast between tinnitus sounds and silence, altering the production of tinnitus, or by adding low-level acoustic therapy.
Treatment for Vertigo
Although symptoms often resolve spontaneously or without treatment, dizziness treatment and vertigo therapy might include
Canalith Repositioning
Used to treat BPPV, canalith repositioning helps remove the otoconia from the semicircular canal and return them to the utricle. Successful in treating 95% of cases, treatment takes only minutes and requires no more than 3-4 visits.
Medications
Beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, tricyclic antidepressants, serotonin or serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs or SNRIs), topiramate, and others can be prescribed to ease the dizziness, vertigo, or motion sickness associated with MdDS as well as other medications to address the buildup of pressure related to Méniére’s disease.
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT)
The most common treatment used to address vertigo is VRT, or vestibular rehabilitation therapy, which involves manual head maneuvers and/or a progressive program of exercises designed to decrease the symptoms of vertigo, help overcome visual issues, and protect patients against falls related to imbalance.
Treatment for Vertigo
Although symptoms often resolve spontaneously or without treatment, dizziness treatment and vertigo therapy might include
Canalith Repositioning
Used to treat BPPV, canalith repositioning helps remove the otoconia from the semicircular canal and return them to the utricle. Successful in treating 95% of cases, treatment takes only minutes and requires no more than 3-4 visits.
Medications
Beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, tricyclic antidepressants, serotonin or serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs or SNRIs), topiramate, and others can be prescribed to ease the dizziness, vertigo, or motion sickness associated with MdDS as well as other medications to address the buildup of pressure related to Méniére’s disease.
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT)
The most common treatment used to address vertigo is VRT, or vestibular rehabilitation therapy, which involves manual head maneuvers and/or a progressive program of exercises designed to decrease the symptoms of vertigo, help overcome visual issues, and protect patients against falls related to imbalance.
Treatment for Vertigo
Although symptoms often resolve spontaneously or without treatment, dizziness treatment and vertigo therapy might include
Canalith Repositioning
Used to treat BPPV, canalith repositioning helps remove the otoconia from the semicircular canal and return them to the utricle. Successful in treating 95% of cases, treatment takes only minutes and requires no more than 3-4 visits.
Medications
Beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, tricyclic antidepressants, serotonin or serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs or SNRIs), topiramate, and others can be prescribed to ease the dizziness, vertigo, or motion sickness associated with MdDS as well as other medications to address the buildup of pressure related to Méniére’s disease.
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy (VRT)
The most common treatment used to address vertigo is VRT, or vestibular rehabilitation therapy, which involves manual head maneuvers and/or a progressive program of exercises designed to decrease the symptoms of vertigo, help overcome visual issues, and protect patients against falls related to imbalance.
Frequently Asked Questions about Tinnitus
If you have any other questions, please email us.
What is tinnitus?
What causes tinnitus?
Are there different types of tinnitus?
I thought tinnitus was only a ringing sound in the ears?
Can tinnitus just affect one ear?
Is there a cure for tinnitus?
Can my tinnitus be improved?
Can a hearing aid help my tinnitus?
Is there anything I can do to prevent or minimize tinnitus?
How Much Do Tinnitus Tests and Consultations Cost?
Does My Insurance Cover Tinnitus Testing and Consultations?
Frequently Asked Questions about Tinnitus
If you have any other questions, please email us.
What is tinnitus?
What causes tinnitus?
Are there different types of tinnitus?
I thought tinnitus was only a ringing sound in the ears?
Can tinnitus just affect one ear?
Is there a cure for tinnitus?
Can my tinnitus be improved?
Can a hearing aid help my tinnitus?
Is there anything I can do to prevent or minimize tinnitus?
How Much Do Tinnitus Tests and Consultations Cost?
Does My Insurance Cover Tinnitus Testing and Consultations?
Frequently Asked Questions about Tinnitus
If you have any other questions, please email us.
What is tinnitus?
What causes tinnitus?
Are there different types of tinnitus?
I thought tinnitus was only a ringing sound in the ears?
Can tinnitus just affect one ear?
Is there a cure for tinnitus?
Can my tinnitus be improved?
Can a hearing aid help my tinnitus?
Is there anything I can do to prevent or minimize tinnitus?
How Much Do Tinnitus Tests and Consultations Cost?
Does My Insurance Cover Tinnitus Testing and Consultations?
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What Our Delighted Patients Say
Hear from our delighted patients about their experience at Utah Ear Institute
“Give them a try.”
Steve H.
“You won’t regret going.”
Alicia F.
“I can understand better.”
Kim H.
What Our Delighted Patients Say
Hear from our delighted patients about their experience at Utah Ear Institute
“Give them a try.”
Steve H.
“You won’t regret going.”
Alicia F.
“I can understand better.”
Kim H.
Schedule a Tinnitus Assessment
If you or a loved one is experiencing the ringing, buzzing, or humming sounds of tinnitus on a frequent or ongoing basis, the first step to finding relief is to schedule a tinnitus assessment with one of our tinnitus specialists at Utah Ear Institute.
Recognized as the leading tinnitus experts in Northern Utah, your appointment will consist of an initial test (that is often covered by most insurance groups) and an advanced consultation to develop your support plan which requires a $125.00 investment.
Schedule a Tinnitus Assessment
If you or a loved one is experiencing the ringing, buzzing, or humming sounds of tinnitus on a frequent or ongoing basis, the first step to finding relief is to schedule a tinnitus assessment with one of our tinnitus specialists at Utah Ear Institute.
Recognized as the leading tinnitus experts in Northern Utah, your appointment will consist of an initial test (that is often covered by most insurance groups) and an advanced consultation to develop your support plan which requires a $125.00 investment.
Schedule a Tinnitus Assessment
If you or a loved one is experiencing the ringing, buzzing, or humming sounds of tinnitus on a frequent or ongoing basis, the first step to finding relief is to schedule a tinnitus assessment with one of our tinnitus specialists at Utah Ear Institute.
Recognized as the leading tinnitus experts in Northern Utah, your appointment will consist of an initial test (that is often covered by most insurance groups) and an advanced consultation to develop your support plan which requires a $125.00 investment.
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Our latest hearing health articles, resources & blogs
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Experience the richness of every conversation by starting with a comprehensive hearing assessment at Utah Ear Institute.
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