Posted on 10/14/2011 7:46:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
One should always understand that we are all different so that it is impossible to suggest a single form of treatment that will work in every case and for every person. However, there is a very simple technique that has often shown to be effective in many cases of tinnitus (ringing in the ears.) Any person who is afflicted by this very unpleasant condition would do well to at least give this simple technique a try.
To perform this technique, put the palms of your hands over your ears. The fingers are on the back of the head. The middle fingers point towards each other and are on the base of the skull just above the point where the skull ends. Now lift the index fingers and place them on top of the middle fingers and then snap the index fingers off the middle fingers so that they beat the skull like a drum. In fact, with your hands covering your ears, the sound may be quite loud and may indeed sound like the beating of a drum. Click here to download a video clip demonstrating this procedure. (The video clip can be played using either Windows Media Player or Quick Time.)
Repeat the drumming about 40 to 50 times. Depending on the severity of the condition, one could repeat the technique several times a day.
Article by Dr. Jan Strydom.
Comment from Barbara Clay, Las Vegas, NV: Thank you soooooo much. I have had ringing in my ears, tinnitus for about a month now and nothing worked for me until now. I did the technique shown on this website and the ringing stop instantly. Dr. Jan Strydom, you are a life saver. The ringing was almost driving me crazy. Now I have my sanity back. Thanks again Dr.
Comment from Chirstine in Groton, USA: My ears have been ringing all day. It was so uncomfortable. I found your website and tried your technique. The ringing in one ear is gone and greatly reduced in the other ear! Thank you!
Comment from Linda in Bealeton, US: Woke up being driven crazy by ringing in right ear. Went online to find a natural remedy. Came upon your ear drumming technique. It worked instantly & I didn't even know if I was doing it properly. Thank you!
A cotton swap dipped in diesel fuel applied to the tick........
Can you please let me know where you will be at all times? Thanks.
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Gave it a try... nothing so far but will repeat the treatment.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I hear the phone ringing. :^)
I tried this. Damn near ran off the road.
Do not try this while driving, operating heavy machinery or chewing gum............
I can see tapping possibly affecting the inner ear fluid, but I don't see how it can result in a reorganization of hearing neurology, undoing the reorganzation that causes the tinnitus percept according to Jastreboff:
Beyond thrilled that folks are having some success!!!!
Thanks Red for helping the computer illiterate!
Best wishes for happy hearing to all!
Whacking yourself “forty or fifty times” “several times a day” sounds like way too much work. Why not just one really good whack with a hammer?
Well...then don’t.
It ain’t a whack it’s a tap.
Why don’t you try the hammer and get back to us all?
I once had doctors in an emergency room tell me after I dove off the roof into the backyard swimming pool and pranged my back but good (all in my stupid youth ...! But at least I used the butts of cigarettes as earplugs when I went shooting! ;^) ... that I had strained my back and would not be able to do anything but lie down for at least a week. Went to a chiropractor the next day and was waiting tables that night.
Just sayin ...
bflr
It works! But now I have a “honey do” list that will take all weekend.
That will work.
Permanently...........
Ping to post 68.
This ( the physical thumping or whatever) has turned the cicada in my left/bad ear into a whispering cricket in a tin metal barn. My good ear has lessened noticably. That cicada is whining and not screaming.
Seems to work on my left better than my right, but I will keep trying it.
bfl
Seems to work, will have to try some more. ears are ringing after the niners beat the lions today!
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