TY - JOUR A1 - Shabana, Mohamed A1 - Dabbous, Abeir A1 - Abdelkarim, Ayman T1 - Sound therapy for tinnitus patients Y1 - 2017/1/1 JF - Advanced Arab Academy of Audio-Vestibulogy Journal JO - Adv Arab Acad Audio-Vestibul J SP - 1 EP - 5 VL - 4 IS - 1 UR - http://www.aaj.eg.net/article.asp?issn=2314-8667;year=2017;volume=4;issue=1;spage=1;epage=5;aulast=Shabana DO - 10.4103/aaaj.aaaj_6_17 N2 - Sound therapy, or use of any sound for the purposes of tinnitus management, is widely accepted as a management tool for tinnitus. Sound therapy have varying goals. Reducing the attention drawn to tinnitus, reducing the loudness of tinnitus, substituting a less disruptive noise. Sound therapy can be achieved with many modalities: Environmental Enrichment, tinnitus maskers, hearing aids and combination instruments such as: Danalogic iFIT Tinnitus, ReSound Live TS, Oticon’s Tinnitus “SoundSupport”, Phonak’s Tinnitus Balance and Widex Zen Fractal Tones. There are other sound devices e.g.: Acoustic Co-ordinated Reset, Neuromodulation, Serenade, Neuromonics, Phase-Out, Phase-shift and tinnitus inhibitory pathway activation. The advantages of sound therapy are: being non-invasive, reduce patient frustration and anxiety, some patients experience residual inhibition and it can facilitate patient’s habituation to tinnitus. ER -