Innoflaps TinnitusRelief™

[Frédéric]

What do our Indian Fellows think about it?

Indian Society of Otology
A Prospective Study to Evaluate Effectiveness of a Tinnitus Relief Device in a Clinical Setup

Abstract
Introduction
Tinnitus has been shown to decrease the quality of life of a person. Being a less understood domain of the medical field, there are no definitive established therapies that can be applied to all patients of tinnitus. The current study is an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the Tinnitus Relief device in the patients of tinnitus.

Aim
To evaluate the effectiveness of Tinnitus Relief device TRx in treatment of tinnitus.

Methods
A prospective study involving 67 participants suffering from tinnitus was conducted in a clinical setup at Delhi, Chandigarh, and Mumbai. These participants were subjected to pure tone audiometry (PTA) and an interview using Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) questionnaire. These participants were advised to use Tinnitus Relief device TR201, TR301, TR401 for more than 6 to 10 months. Improvement in tinnitus in terms of percentage, questions pertaining to THI, and overall improvement in life (subjective) were evaluated after discontinuation of the use of the device in each participant.

Results
It was found that there was significant improvement in mean THI score, following treatment with Tinnitus Relief TRx. This device was also able to completely alleviate 5 out of 12 associated complaints of tinnitus. No association could be found between the use of Tinnitus Relief therapy and hearing loss.

Conclusion
Tinnitus Relief TRx can emerge as an effective tool for treatment of the tinnitus and can improve the life of the sufferer.


Source: https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0039-1693822
Full text: see attached PDF
Link to the product: http://innoflaps.com/tinnitusrelief/

 

[Krolo]

I call total bullshit on this one. So many units have come and gone regarding just sound therapy and nothing has come of it. And they can even get a good result by admitting tinnitus patients that have early onset tinnitus whose then dissappear naturally. On their website they claim basing on neuromodulation but there is no neuromodulation going on here. India is a big market, easy to cash in there with a bogus unit.
Raise your hands if you are from India and in this forum?

Edit: and I am confident at least 2 pictures on their website are just grabbed from the net.just disregard this shit.

 

[InfiniteLoop]

Same old story and same old sound therapy garbage...

 

[ajc]

@JohnAdams what's your opinion on this treatment?

 

[JohnAdams]

@JohnAdams what's your opinion on this treatment?

Here's the website:
http://innoflaps.com/

I don't know really. My initial thought is that it looks dumb but I haven't tried it so how could I know for sure?

From the site:
"TinnitusRelief is the complete solution for people who are suffering from Ringing,Buzzing & Whistling in the ear."
That seems like a joke.

 

[Gabriel]

Totally loled at their graph:

This is basically TRT. They put a sound that match your tinnitus sound and you have to listen to it, in order to habituate.
Did that on my own when my tinnitus appeared, was doing it everyday. It helps on the short term because it would made my tinnitus completely disappear, but it has no long-term effect.

 

[MattS]

What do our Indian Fellows think about it?

Indian Society of Otology
A Prospective Study to Evaluate Effectiveness of a Tinnitus Relief Device in a Clinical Setup

Abstract
Introduction
Tinnitus has been shown to decrease the quality of life of a person. Being a less understood domain of the medical field, there are no definitive established therapies that can be applied to all patients of tinnitus. The current study is an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the Tinnitus Relief device in the patients of tinnitus.

Aim
To evaluate the effectiveness of Tinnitus Relief device TRx in treatment of tinnitus.

Methods
A prospective study involving 67 participants suffering from tinnitus was conducted in a clinical setup at Delhi, Chandigarh, and Mumbai. These participants were subjected to pure tone audiometry (PTA) and an interview using Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) questionnaire. These participants were advised to use Tinnitus Relief device TR201, TR301, TR401 for more than 6 to 10 months. Improvement in tinnitus in terms of percentage, questions pertaining to THI, and overall improvement in life (subjective) were evaluated after discontinuation of the use of the device in each participant.

Results
It was found that there was significant improvement in mean THI score, following treatment with Tinnitus Relief TRx. This device was also able to completely alleviate 5 out of 12 associated complaints of tinnitus. No association could be found between the use of Tinnitus Relief therapy and hearing loss.

Conclusion
Tinnitus Relief TRx can emerge as an effective tool for treatment of the tinnitus and can improve the life of the sufferer.


Source: https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0039-1693822
Full text: see attached PDF
Link to the product: http://innoflaps.com/tinnitusrelief/

If only there were a control group in the study...

 

[linearb]

Based out of Dehli, so of course they can say whatever they want in a way that the FDA would prevent here.

Look at this fun graphic

My spider sense says, "this might be useful to some people with tinnitus, but no more so than listening to SimplyNoise.net through your phone headphones for free".

(1) Matching




TinnitusReliefTM device works as a screening audiometer. It can use to diagnose the Tinnitus either it is of the particular tone or of a sound/tone pattern. Device has frequency level from 100 Hz to 16 kHz with dB level from 10-110 dB to match the tone and it has 21 calibrated customized sounds which can be use to match the Tinnitus sound/tone pattern. First of all put the earphone in the ear of the patient and match his/her internal sound to the external sound and then adjust the dB (intensity) level. Finally the sound should be matched in the way such that the internal sound should be fully matched to the external sound of the device means that no internal sound is present now. In this way we can do the precised matching with the TinnitusRelief device, which indicates that candidate is fit for TRT(Tinnitus Retraning Therapy). And patient's inhibition period will indicate that matching is correct and next step will be to check the most soothing pattern for him/her.

Again, this sounds like "this might be useful to some people with tinnitus, but no more so than listening to SimplyNoise.net through your phone headphones for free".

 

[JohnAdams]

What a dumb name. Innoflaps? What in tarnation does that even mean?

 

[linearb]

What a dumb name. Innoflaps? What in tarnation does that even mean?

not just flaps. INNOVATIVE FLAPS!


except this product appears to have.... no flaps?


FALSE ADVERTISING

 

[JayK]

Here's the website:
http://innoflaps.com/

I don't know really. My initial thought is that it looks dumb but I haven't tried it so how could I know for sure?

From the site:
"TinnitusRelief is the complete solution for people who are suffering from Ringing,Buzzing & Whistling in the ear."
That seems like a joke.

This is the state of Indian "research". Bunch of bullshit. Source: I'm Indian. That device looks like some cheap mp3 player from alibaba.com that they rebranded.

 

[JohnAdams]

This is the state of Indian "research". Bunch of bullshit. Source: I'm Indian. That device looks like some cheap mp3 player from alibaba.com that they rebranded.

At least your country is rich in turmeric.

 

[JayK]

At least your country is rich in turmeric.

Lol yes, I actually started taking it after reading your posts on it. I do have some hope for nutrition, over these junk devices at least.

 

[JohnAdams]

This is the state of Indian "research". Bunch of bullshit. Source: I'm Indian.

Lmao.

 

[Racehorse]

In conclusion, stay away from India. Don't think they EVER actually came out with a cure for something.

 

[Christophe_85]

How can tinnitus be cured with this kind of thing?

I think nothing can cure tinnitus and all these companies keep selling dreams to all the tinnitus sufferers...