A New FDA-Approved Treatment Offers Fresh Hope for People Living With Tinnitus

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00:00A new FDA-approved treatment may help train the brain to ignore the ear ringing of tinnitus

00:05by combining sound stimulation with electrical impulses to the tongue.

00:10Called bimodal neuromodulation, this treatment uses high and low-pitched tones

00:15and mild pulses from a device in the mouth to weaken tinnitus pathways,

00:20helping the brain stop focusing on tinnitus sounds, reports Reuters.

00:23So tinnitus is a sound that the person hears either in their head or in their ears

00:30when there are no sounds outside of the body present.

00:34Ross O'Neill, founder of Neuromod Devices, developed the device, Lanier.

00:39While not a cure, he calls it a significant step forward in tinnitus treatment.

00:44Tinnitus, often linked to loud noise exposure and hearing loss,

00:49can also be affected by factors like anxiety and stress.

00:52In clinical trials, 86.2% of participants who followed the treatment plan saw improvement after 12 weeks.

01:00A second trial reported a 95% improvement rate with modified stimuli.

01:05I think we all, including us at Neuromod, the wider community, we're all working towards a cure.

01:11But what Lanier is, is a significant step forward in terms of the standards of care.

01:16So it is a treatment that has been proven effective in the majority of patients.

01:23It's the first and only treatment that has been approved by the FDA on the basis of clinical data.

01:31And so we believe it's a significant step forward in terms of tinnitus treatment.

01:36And so we believe it's a significant step forward.