The muscles store electricity when they tighten up.
Do you have a source for that? It seems interesting.
How do they store electricity?
The muscles store electricity when they tighten up.
Do you have a source for that? It seems interesting.
How do they store electricity?
Yes . . . . .
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How do they store electricity?
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Is there any resource online that explains it?
Perhaps you can answer?
My tinnitus has been horrendous but the last two weeks it's gone even worse. The only reason I can think of is oral prednisone that I was on but didn't taper off because I was struck with stomach (gastro) virus and stopped cold turkey.
I was on it for a week then another round shortly after.
I never imagined something like this is remotely possible.
I've hit the rock bottom!
Yesterday I went to see my gp who referred me to private psychiatrist but said it could take 2-3 months and then said I should urgently go to ER because I said I'm seriously suicidal.
I went to ER and was told on arrival: we can't help you with tinnitus, what do you expect from us???
Great start! I was sobbing the whole time and she said: do you have a plan how to kill yourself? Did you discuss it with your doctor?
Then I was asked to take a seat in a noisy room full of people and screaming patients (I did ask if there's anywhere quieter for me to wait but no) and after two hours of waiting I left.
I'm absolutely lost for words as how little help I received, how little human life is worth to this whole system!
Unfortunately the level of noise I have is not something anyone could survive so I'm now moving towards more radical and permanent solution.
Sorry for negativity
The mechanism that Susan Shore proposes and explains is pretty reasonable. If you follow her work, you'll understand her hypothesis about the mechanism that actually creates the tinnitus.
The positive results published by her latest study provides a good validation set for that hypothesis, actually.
Sadly I don't see a cure in the foreseeable future. As imaging studies are showing, tinnitus is the result of brain plasticity in the auditory cortex and limbic system. It can't be reversed, so at best, they can prevent tinnitus. They cannot cure it though.
Hope you get better. As bitter as I can be I'm here if you need to vent.
Thanks for mentioning it but yes, I have heard of Aderazid. It is a NMDA receptor blocker which reduces the neurosensory response.
The dorsal cochlear nucleus becomes hyperactive and the NMDA receptor blocker lowers the hyperactivity.
I prefer NOT to add electrical impulses . . . the brain does that already.
I recently had dry needling treatment on my lower back. The muscles store electricity when they tighten up. The brain increases the neurotransmissions to get a response (neurosensory response) and this causes more tightening. Dry needling released the store electricity (excruciating), however the unexpected result was my tinnitus reduced by 75% for 2 days, then over a period of a week increased to it's usual level.
I will be getting a series of treatments over the coming months to see if the tinnitus can be permanently reduced.
Yes, you are bitter, but that's ok because it's understandable. However, you need to work on it, because carrying that around only makes it worse. And, point in fact, you're wrong. The Helix Corporation has invented - and it passed all it's clinical trials with flying colours - a PoNS device. Long story short, it repairs brain neuroplasticity. Yes, you read that correctly, it actually repairs brain neuroplasticity. They've seen a ton of success specifically with MS and Tinnitus patients. People with MS confined to a wheelchair and actually regaining mobility enough to walk again, overall improvements of over 70%. That's huge. People with T have been cured as well. Helix expects to have these on the market in the latter half of this year.
http://heliusmedical.com/index.php/divisions/neurohabilitation/the-pons-device
https://seekingalpha.com/news/33132...ons-device-next-year-despite-perceived-hiccup
https://tcnl.bme.wisc.edu/help/pons-use
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/glo...earance-for-its-brain-device/article33495524/
You need to remember that the brain is like an electrical panel. When something short circuits the circuit breaker trips and needs to be reset. The problem is the brain has a difficult time resetting but it can be done - and often is. This is what Dr. Shore is working on. They've found that by even interrupting the DCN by five milliseconds resets the brain and stops T in it's tracks. There findings are tremendous. In the Canadian portion of the study at McMaster out of 20 people 2 were cured outright and the rest saw major reductions in their T. So don't tell anyone it can't get better or there's no cure or there's no hope because there is. A lot of people live with T for years or even decades, but it does stop. Within the next decade - I surmise probably within 5 years - we're going to see major leaps forward in the treatment of all neurological trauma. The research has been doubling year over year for the last decade alone. I'll bet dollars to donuts we see some sort of (virtual) cure within that time, or a way to mitigate to a point where no one needs to suffer like so many do with this bloody condition.
I say this a lot and I'll keep saying it because it bears repeating. It should be a mantra for everyone with T regardless of how it came about...the body is ALWAYS trying to heal itself. That's what it does. That's its job. Otherwise we'd all have significantly shorter lifespans. If it can't start, it can stop. And for people with T that means a complete lifestyle change if you wish to have any chance of that happening. Diet/excercise/physical therapies. That's the holy trinity that will either do it completely or mitigate it to a point where it's not life destroying. And the psychological aspect of it can't be overlooked. It's been proven unequivocally that a large part of T is how well people are psychologically equipped to deal with it. Those who tend toward OCD or don't handle stress well have a much harder time of it and need to be trained/conditioned to do so. No different from any occupation like law enforcement, military, etc. Operant training and muscle memory make all the difference in the world. There are all manner of paths to lowering or getting rid of T outright but it takes dedication. If you don't want to research, learn, and put the work in and are going to be wholly reliant on doctors and pills than yeah, you won't get better. You need to treat this with the seriousness as if you were proscribed with terminal cancer. You can sit back and let it consume you or you put the work in and beat it.
You're talking about a condition that literally affects 100s of millions of people on this planet and except for the tiniest percentage who are really unlucky people and that overwhelming majority learn to deal with it. There's a literal fortune out there waiting to be made which is why research in neurological conditions is blowing up. I don't care what their motivations are so long as it happens...and it will, sooner than later.
And besides, what if your tinnitus is caused by TMJ, ETD, or a non-auditory related problem? That tech won't fix it.
ETD directly affects hearing thresholds, this is probably the most likely causative factor for tinnitus. (This is on my mind lately because I've been dealing with a minor case of it after an upper respiratory infection, though it seems to be abating). To the extent that we can pinpoint TMJ as a cause of tinnitus, well, TMJ can also affect hearing thresholds, and possibly cause ischemic events because of compression of blood vessels; both of these things are auditory phenomena.what if your tinnitus is caused by TMJ, ETD, or a non-auditory related problem?
Hi valeri, I hope you feel a little bit better--I do understand your pain and terror. YES, STEROIDS CAN CAUSE MAJOR ANXIETY, as well as other ups and downs. I have taken IV steroids for 18 weeks. It is one of the premeds given when one has chemo. I had my chemo on Thursdays and by Saturday I would be so depressed that I would sit and cry--really. I talked to the therapist assigned to me about this reaction and she told me this is how the steroid can cause me to react. I have just finished chemo and I'm hoping that my tinnitus will return to baseline--it got very loud either from the platinum anti cancer drugs--the premeds (there were 5 of them each week) and the IV antibiotics. I am making progress. You can too. Drugs take time to leave our systems. I am here for you as you were for me 4 years ago.I'm just confused if steroids can cause such a bad anxiety that I have now?
Don't understand... You are a neuroscientist?Valeri,
I've been researching tinnitus for the past 4 years . . . Neuroscience+.
What most people have is neurogenic tinnitus ( controlled by the nervous system). Many things aggravate it, whatever the initial cause . . . even if the cause has dissipated, it continues.
It can't be explained easily. I know academics that have gotten lost whilst I try to explain it.
Think as your body as a chemistry set and the nervous system (starting at the brain) as a complex electrical system.
It is adaptable, it can change . . . the brain is neuroplastic (see Hebbian theory).
Basically it adjusts and re-adjusts, sometimes to the detriment of it's host (that's us).
Three things bring on neurogenic tinnitus.
1. An acute neurogenic event. (this can mean continued loud noise, as sound is converted into an electrical impulse.)
2. Continued excessive neuro activity changing the benchmark in the brain's understanding of what is required - A lot if this happens without you even knowing.
3. The over flexibility of the stereocilia in the inner ear.
To many on this forum . . . . all this sound like double speak . . . . like I said it can't be explained easily.
The anomaly with tinnitus is that stress/coffee/alcohol, mainly stress, aggravates tinnitus, raising the electrical activity in the nervous system. However continued tinnitus causes stress. Seems like a no-win situation.
Until I finish my research all everyone can do is work on lowering stress levels and relax the body. Yoga, massage, physiotherapy and so on . . . . chill out!
Buy the way, I have been able to lower my tinnitus by up to 80% but unfortunately only for 3 or 4 days then in slowly increases again over time . . . damned neuroplasticity!
Electroacupunture gave me pulsate T and a chirping I can not only hear but feel as well. The odds of it helping are beyond minimal and not worth the damage it can cause. Stay away; far away.
The human body is made up of 11 elements - oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. Basically an electromagnetic chemistry set. We have muscle nerves and like any electrical circuit it needs to run it's course and expel the charge (muscles move as required etc). Muscles tighten for many reasons but lets say to protect the spine due to overexertion, the electrical impulses become trapped in the muscle tissue.
Now you might ask, what does this have to do with the auditory system?
I could write a number of chapters on it but I will say this, it's not only the neurotransmitters, is their effect on the cilia, cochlear nerve and auditory cortex.
Neurotransmitters constantly keep the auditory system active like they keep everything active. The cilia (tiny hairs) move/respond to sound waves. Cilia have potassium ion tips that set of electrical impulses and so on. Any damage, restriction (thickening of the cochlear fluid through infection or other causes) or flattening of the cilia (loud noise etc) thus resulting in an erratic electrical discharge. Neurosensory response is a basic function of the nervous system . The brain sends millions of electrical impulses though the body eliciting a response (a full circuit).
Say the micro fibres in the skin react abnormally (due to extreme cold for instance), the neurotransmitters increase the electrical impulses, increases blood flow etc until an equilibrium has been reached.
Hair fibres are extremely delicate and the increase in electrical impulses to the auditory system from the neurotransmitters act the same as a loud noise and continue to flatten the cilia. After a while it becomes a normal function due to the neuroplasticity of the brain. So any increase in electrical impulses through the body will affect the already flattened or affected cilia. That's why tinnitus has spikes due to alcohol, caffeine, stress, tightening or stiffening of muscles and so on.
Once the stored electricity was discharge from the dry needling tinnitus reduced, but only for a short while because the brain's default level of electrical impulses is higher than it should be . . . . and also because of alcohol, caffeine, stress, tightening or stiffening of muscles and so on. A life style change is in order no doubt.
No it is not a role, tinnitus is not caused by bent hair cells sending a false signal, it is caused by higher regions of the brain compensating for hearing loss. Unless of course there is an alternative cause for tinnitus, but I haven't heard any real research hint at that hypothesis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208401/
You post something that has an outdated hypothesis and make it look true. Tinnitus is centralized in the brain compensating for lack of input for the auditory nerve, not coming from the auditory nerve.