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Tinnitus: what has evidence and what does not
Tinnitus: what has evidence and what does not: one rich hub plus ~12 pages: what the noise actually is, why it is almost always paired with hearing loss…
This guide is general education, not a diagnosis or an individual treatment plan. Urgent, severe or worsening symptoms belong with the local emergency service or a qualified clinician.
What this guide covers
One rich hub plus ~12 pages: what the noise actually is, why it is almost always paired with hearing loss, acute vs chronic and the point at which it stops being treatable and starts being habituation, pulsatile tinnitus as the one kind that needs assessment because it can have a vascular cause, tinnitus after a concert or a shooting range, tinnitus and sleep (the single most searched complaint), sound enrichment, hearing aids as the most effective single intervention when there is loss, the strong evidence for CBT and the absent evidence for the supplements sold for it, noise limits, and living with it at work.
One focused section asks: "Tinnitus and sleep: what to change tonight".
How to use it
Start with the description that most closely matches your question about Tinnitus: what has evidence and what does not. Use the evidence section to understand what is known, then use the boundary section to decide when self-education should stop and clinical care should begin.
The page keeps the main question, its evidence base and its limits together in one canonical place. That makes it useful as a quick orientation and avoids splitting a broad subject into shallow pages before each narrower answer has enough verified material of its own.
Search vocabulary in four languages
Terminology changes across borders. These are example phrases people use for the same subject in Estonian, Finnish, Russian and English; they are included as a practical vocabulary aid, not as hidden keywords.
| Language | Example phrase |
|---|---|
| Estonian | kohin kõrvus põhjused |
| Estonian | tinnitus ei lase magada |
| Finnish | korvien soiminen syyt |
| Russian | шум в ушах лечение |
| English | pulsatile tinnitus when to worry |
Evidence and provenance
The evidence map below records the primary, official or openly licensed material chosen for this guide. It is deliberately visible so a reader can tell the difference between a rule published by an authority, a measured dataset and an editorial explanation.
Source: multidisciplinary European guideline for tinnitus (Cima et al., HNO 2019, open access), WHO safe listening standard, Cochrane tinnitus reviews (cited). · checked 2026-09-09
Source names are preserved even where an authority changes its web address. No figure is added to this launch page unless it is already present in the cited source description or can be computed from a named dataset.
Scope and boundaries
/hearing has a tinnitus pitch-matching tool; this is the condition, its evidence base and its sleep problem.
Connected TempoLife guides
The following paths are the intentional hand-offs named in the brief. They keep adjacent subjects separate while making the next useful reference easy to find.
Noise
Continue to the related TempoLife reference.
Insomnia
Continue to the related TempoLife reference.
Calm
Continue to the related TempoLife reference.
Why it belongs on TempoLife
/hearing, /noise, /insomnia, /calm.
Frequently asked questions
What does this guide cover?
One rich hub plus ~12 pages: what the noise actually is, why it is almost always paired with hearing loss, acute vs chronic and the point at which it stops being treatable and starts being habituation, pulsatile tinnitus as the one kind that needs assessment because it can have a vascular cause, tinnitus after a concert or a shooting range, tinnitus and sleep (the single most searched complaint), sound enrichment, hearing aids as the most effective single intervention when there is loss, the strong evidence for…
What evidence does it use?
multidisciplinary European guideline for tinnitus (Cima et al., HNO 2019, open access), WHO safe listening standard, Cochrane tinnitus reviews (cited).
Where does this guide stop?
/hearing has a tinnitus pitch-matching tool; this is the condition, its evidence base and its sleep problem.
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