Do hearing aids help tinnitus?

Hearing aids can be used as hearing aids alone, or a combination hearing aid and tinnitus therapy device. There are four therapy signals to choose from: white noise, pink noise, speech noise, and high-tone noise. Your hearing healthcare professional can fine-tune these signals to your preferences. read more

To better understand how hearing aids can help with tinnitus, consider the two images below as simple visual representations of tinnitus and hearing loss. Imagine that the cricket represents a person’s tinnitus, and the background image represents background sounds. In Picture A, the person has a hearing loss. read more

The most basic way hearing aids can help you if you experience tinnitus is by subtly amplifying background noise to help reduce the awareness of tinnitus. This means your brain can focus on the sounds you want to hear instead of the sound of your tinnitus. read more