♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous physical therapists ♪
♪ On the internet ♪
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- Hi, folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- And this is not really a physical therapy topic,
but I'll tell ya in a minute why we're doing it.
Number one treatment for tinnitus,
it's supposed to be said tinnitus, based on science,
in our opinion.
- Not tinnitus.
- Tinnitus is how the layperson says it.
- Okay.
- A poofessional says tinnitus,
so that's what we're gonna say.
I felt compelled to do this video because I've been seeing
a lot of, basically, what I call scam videos.
You know, they're telling you how to get rid of tinnitus
in one easy treatment or whatever, and that's just not true.
And I think it's really important to educate yourself
using reliable sources, so I thought this video
would be kind of a mixture of, one,
how we go about looking at things, and two,
giving you some really solid advice
on how to handle your tinnitus.
- And then point some directions to get more information.
- To get more information, right.
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All right, so the sources that I looked at is, first off,
usually if there's an association.
So there's the American Tinnitus Association,
so you know they're gonna be reliable.
There's the British Tinnitus Association,
so I got some information from them.
- So these are groups associated with the medical community,
- Right, right. - research,
some good science foundation. - Yeah,
they're not gonna steer you the wrong way.
I always go to the Mayo Clinic website, not only
because I'm an alumni, but also because they have
solid information, you can trust it.
- Right, they've got a great reputation,
- Right, great reputation. - to say the least.
- And then I always check PubMed, which is research
that is sponsored by the government, I mean,
the site is sponsored by the government.
And I always look there for the latest research
and see if I can find anything.
Tinnitus is the perception of noise or ringing in the ears.
You can have ringing, buzzing, roaring, clicking, hissing,
or humming, so any one of these sounds.
It affects, I think you're gonna be surprised about this,
Brad, 15 to 20% of the people, about 50 million Americans.
- Really?
- Isn't that amazing?
- Right, right. That's a lot of people.
- I'm assuming to different degrees.
- It does, they said about two million were so severe,
it's almost crippling.
- Wow.
- So it's important to see your doctor,
who may send you to a audiologist.
There may be physical reasons
or you talked about Meniere's disease,
you could have wax in your ear.
There's reasons why it might be there,
but in most instances, they cannot come up with a reason
why it's there, although it's highly associated
with hearing loss.
There is no cure, but there are treatments available
to lessen the symptoms, and that's what we're gonna talk
about today, and make it easier to live with.
So some of the treatments to consider,
I'll talk about the one that I think is the number one
in just a minute.
But some of the things to consider, you can use hearing aids
to increase the external noise, so you're not picking
up on the internals. - It overpowers that.
- Yeah, kinda overpower it, right.
Or you can mask the sound by using sound machines,
or a radio, or something like that.
So obviously, you can't rely on that because,
well I guess you could with a hearing aid,
but you can't always have the external noise
playing for you.
So the best approach to me that I,
and this was research-based and recommended also
on the website, the ata.org, I'll have these linked below.
- Okay, so they can go to it and look?
- They can go and look themselves.
Is basically what they called mindfulness,
which is frequently used in meditation.
So mindfulness is actually a state of open attention
on the present, so they don't really want you
to ignore the sound, they want you to pay attention
to the sound and actually, eventually, you can actually,
through what we call habit, habituation.
Brad and I been using this with people who have dizziness,
like if someone has dizziness, we keep exposing them
to the dizziness, and after a while it starts to lessen
because of that.
- So they acknowledge it, but become desensitized
to it so it's not such a overwhelming.
- Yeah, sensation.
I think the example I saw that was really good, Brad,
you know how your refrigerator might be buzzing,
but after a while you can block it out?
- Right, sure.
- Or a light might be buzzing.
- Right, people who live by the railroad tracks
initially just, you can't sleep with it,
but eventually you acclimate to it.
- Yeah, one for me lately has been
these birds wake up in the morning,
and we like to have the windows open,
and I, "Well, I'll just accept it's beautiful,
"there's birds singing there," and now I'm to the point
where I can sleep right through it.
- Oh, I thought you said
you're gonna get the shotgun.
(Brad laughing) - Yeah, (laughing)
I'm gonna get the shotgun!
No, we're kind people, we don't shoot birds.
- I actually love the birds.
- Yeah, so anyway, that's the recommendation
we're gonna have, and they have some websites
that work out really well for this.
One is called mindfultinnitusrelief.com,
and they have a great research section,
again, I'll have the link below,
that shows all the research, and I went to PubMed
and found a lot of these same research articles,
so they're the real deal.
The other one is they had a couple podcasts on that website,
one that was by Jennifer Grans, PhD, and there's also
one by Bruce Hubbard, his is a little different.
He goes on cognitive behavior therapy, I'm not sure,
real familiar with that.
So both approaches use that habituation and, again,
I like the three things about it.
One, it's research-based, two, it's got additional benefits.
Mediation is gonna help you with your stress levels,
if you do rumination, she talked about
if you tend to run thoughts through your head
over and over again. - Over, and over, and over,
and builds up, and builds up into.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, it's like being married. (laughs)
Just kiddin', Bob,
Just kiddin'! - Brad, you're gonna have
a lotta stress there. - I know (laughing).
By the way, there's a book called
"Tribe of Mentors" by Tim Ferriss, where he interviews
really successful people and they give advice.
Vast majority of 'em use meditation in their life,
so it's really a highly recommended,
really good. - Right, it's one
of those things you actually have to practice
and work with it. - Yes, you do.
'Cause you've done some of it, right, years ago?
- Yeah, to a degree.
- I feel like I don't - And Aikido.
- do it now, and the reason I don't, I think I got things
that are like meditation in my life that seem
to help reduce it, exercise and stuff.
But the final thing is there's no side effects from this,
so why not give this a try, basically, you're learning
to live with your and decreasing the symptoms
as opposed to doing this tapping or pull on your ears,
(Brad laughs) this crap that they.
Well I'm sorry, it kind of upsets me
when they try to, you know.
I'm sure you people or a lot of people
are desperate for relief.
And to come up with this stuff that really doesn't work,
so all right, thanks, everybody.
(Brad stutters)
I got on my soapbox. - Bob's ready,
he's about ready to explode.
- That's right, I'm ready, (Brad laughing)
yeah, I'm on my soapbox.
All right, thanks for watchin'.
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