Tinnitus Research Paper

Tinnitus is the ringing in the ear, which is an unwanted sound that one can hear. The sounds can be constant or comes and goes, soft or loud, and in one ear or both. There are three ways to distinguish the symptoms of the patient’s tinnitus sound: tonal tinnitus, pulsatile tinnitus, and musical tinnitus. Tonal is a near continuous sound that are affiliated with subjective tinnitus, which is just the normal ringing sound, pulsatile is pulsing sound that one hears from their heartbeat and for some people it gets louder, and musical is music or singing sounds heard by the patient, which is also rare (“Symptoms”). Some of the symptoms can be on just one side of the ear that would sometimes cause hearing loss, or interrupts everyday life including sleep (“Tinnitus.” Symptoms). …show more content…
However, there are also some common causes that are age-related, earwax blockage, or ear bone changes that is stuffiness of the bones in the middle ear. The less common, but major causes are Meniere’s disease, which is an inner ear disorder that cause fluid pressure to build up in the ear. TMJ disorder is problems with the joint on each side of one’s head that is in front of the ear where jawbone touches the skull, and head injuries or neck injuries, as well as, acoustic neuroma, which is a tumor that developed on the nerve of the skull, which goes from the brain to the inner ear that control one’s balance and hearing. But this case of tinnitus only happens on one side of the ear (“Tinnitus”