The Link Between Tinnitus and Traffic Noise

  For some people, there comes a day in their lives when silence ceases to exist. They lose their sense of calm due to the fact that their hearing is disturbed by continual buzzing, clicks, or whistling sounds. This is tinnitus. It’s a perceptual phenomenon that can’t be controlled. In fact, in many cases, it becomes a chronic condition. Today, there’s increasingly more scientific research available to help us understand the experience of tinnitus. However, a century ago it was a disturbing condition about which nothing was known. Moreover, it was often confused with hallucinatory states. After all, why else…