The effect of tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) in patients with unilateral tinnitus: comparison of Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire (THA) scores before and after therapy

Tinnitus is nothing without any external sound warning. is the perception of sound in the ears or in the head. Although there is no definitive treatment for tinnitus, Treatment methods medical, surgical, hearing devices can be used such as tinnitus masking and tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT). In our study, Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire (THA) was used in patients with tinnitus before and after TRT treatment. Investigating methods of TRT methods of score comparisons. Various usage Hearing aids, tinnitus maskers, tabletop sound generators as sound therapy devices in TRT, CD players, mp3 players are used as audio sources. In this case, tinnitus of our patients frequency is determined, narrowband sound is given with an audiometry device, and he is taken to weekly therapy for 3 months, and The diary between the therapy periods is the tinnitus frequency with the applications downloaded to the users' mobile phones. Therapy will be given with extensive narrowband noise and background music.