Tinnitus Management Programme

We can help you manage your tinnitus using a range of management options which are tailored to your personal needs. Our aim is to equip you with the knowledge, information, technology and skills to manage the impact of tinnitus on your overall quality of life.

Firstly we allow 2 hours for the initial appointment so that you can feel relaxed and have the time to share your concerns. We also complete a full diagnostic assessment of your hearing and carry out baseline measurements of your tinnitus distress. We then carefully explain your hearing test results to you using pictures and diagrams to make it easy for you to understand the results. Finally we discuss the mechanisms underlying tinnitus so that you can get a good understanding of how tinnitus is generated and heard within in the brain. Once we have completed this process we then design a tinnitus management programme tailored to your needs.

This may include the use of:

• Fitting of hearing devices
• Sound therapy
• Counselling based on Tinnitus Retraining Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy principles
• Relaxation techniques

What to expect?

We feel that it is important to work together with you to create a management programme that is tailored to your needs and that you are happy with. At a minimum this will involve an initial appointment and one follow up appointment. In most cases it may involve a series of 3-6 appointments to support you in habituating to your tinnitus. Most appointments will be between 1 – 1 ½ hours so that you have enough time to discuss your concerns and ask the questions that you may have .

This is what to expect from the initial consultation:

Initial Consultation – 1.5 - 2 hours

1. Detailed history taking
2. Comprehensive hearing assessment including:

2. Baseline measurements of the tinnitus
3. Discussion of results
4. Introduction to tinnitus theory
5. Agreement of management plan and setting of goals
6. Report of the findings to GP and ENT

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