Tinnitus affects as many as seven million people in the UK alone, and yet treatment for this quality-of-life-ruining ailment still varies from a non-existent ‘deal with it’, to impossible-to-pin-down and quantify ‘brain retraining’.
Symptoms range from simple 'ringing in the ears' to invasive perception of loud or unpleasant high and low frequencies, to repetitive and intrusive 'beating' or 'swooshing' sounds which can seemingly come and go at random.
