After online testing or having been tested in our clinic, specialists will set the processors for you. The program and stimulation are adjusted automatically. A device’s protocols are programmed by a technician and they will be remotely changed every day, so a patient doesn’t have to change a anything. In this respect, a patient can visit us only once and never show up again, yet the therapy and its course will remain adjusted. This innovative approach makes it easier for patients to focus exclusively on keeping healthy diet and physical activity. Stimulation matches patient’s hearing threshold in the range of sudden hearing loss and is created in three-dimensional technology (3D). Within time, stimulation changes into frequency and intensity; thus, every cell and its synapse receive an accurate adaptation level without intensity structure omission. How is the device constructed? Is it easy to use? We provide two models of stimulation devices: Modulator ARC-3 and Modulator ARC-3.1. Both of them are small and easy to use, but the difference lies in the number of protocols to be operated by each of two devices. Modulator ARC-3 is a basic device with a stimulation program, on/off button, sound control of right and left channels, USB port for charging and using CIC earphones. Modulator ARC-3.1 device is of similar size but it can operate a greater number of stimulation protocols. It also has a sound control of both channels, similar power supply and remote control of settings. After your online consultation or an appointment in our clinic, you will receive a device with a user manual and all necessary information.

Our therapy is very similar to physical exercises: the most effective ones are the ones we perform last. In order for them to be effective, you need to do the first ones. A therapy we provide works in the same way. If the signal is weak and occurs rarely, it’s quite obvious that activity of synapses during therapy will be lower than at the beginning when the stimulation is strong and more frequent. Some patients notice gradual reduction, some – sudden, while others experience dulling of the hiss, which is silent and hushed down in certain situations. However, we consider final results of a therapy more important than partial results.

It’s an individual aspect of how long we are physically able to wear a device; an average time is 9 hours a day, not necessarily in a row. Actually, it’s recommended to take breaks because the longer you wear it, the lower the amount of synaptic vesicles is because they need time to rebuild themselves. Some patients can wear a device the whole day, but others only after work. Everything depends on how your day is organized. Some consider it as inconvenient, especially during professional meetings, while others don’t mind it at all. When it comes to its functioning, the device measures stimulation time, therefore, we remain up-to-date with whether or not a patient wears a device long enough.

It’s impossible, unless we have an additional region in our brain which modulates activity of the auditory cortex. Then it’s required to take MRI test in order to indicate which brain region interacts with hyperactivity. Another step would be lessening its activity with rTMS. In some cases, activity of regions and another path between regions becomes plasticized. However, if we’ve suffered from tinnitus for 2-3 years such situations is unlikely to arise. It often occurs to patients with 10 or 20-years tinnitus experience.

Being physically active makes it easier and helps in a therapy process, unfortunately, not always. It’s not the case if, but what kind of sport we’ve been practicing. Production of neurotrophic proteins BDNF always takes place after physical activity was performed. A type of activity determines for how long the highest concentration of this proteins will sustain. We can run, swim or ride a bike and it’s perfectly fine from neuropharmalogical perspective. After such activities, the proteins level will increase within an hour, but our goal is to have it for 24h. There is a few training programs and correlations with diet that make it possible.

Of course, you can but it won’t be effective. If you’re willing to waste money and blindly follow something what’s been known and ineffective for some time now, we can’t stop you. If, on the other hand, your goal is a visible effect, we recommend therapy in accordance with diagnostics and test results. A broken leg shouldn’t be treated with oncology drugs and the other way around. Neurobiology is no different: We reduce tinnitus in regard to what has changed. For instance, if the hiss has been present for months, our problem doesn’t lie in enhanced synchronization which hasn’t yet emerged. Therefore, transcranial stimulation won’t appear helpful, because we would be facing spontaneous activity. We shouldn’t expect any results until the problem connected with this model is solved. This information gives out an answer to a question of why an effective tinnitus treatment hasn’t been invented. As you have probably noticed, we don’t use a word effective at our subpages. Effectiveness is connected with something not necessarily matched, and we’re not necessarily certain would help. Once you know that black is black and white – white, it’s harder to make a mistake. We observe the same situation with effectiveness which is determined by a suitable technology match to a particular model, not by technology in itself. As I have already clarified, it’s impossible to be successful when using the same treatment method for a patient who’s had tinnitus for 2 years and another one who’s suffered from this for 6 years.