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Re:The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus by figurehe4d on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:27PM (#15752212)
Do you know why this works? Because it jostles the sternocleidomastoid muscle which connects to the base of your skull behind your ears.

If this technique cures/helps your tinnitus its because you probably sit/stand with bad posture. You can attain more lasting results by regularly stretching that muscle (massage/pull on it). This will not cure hearing-loss related tinnitus.

Personal experience: this not only cured my tinnitus, but also cured a pattern of headaches I was experiencing as well as pain from my eyes that I thought was due to eye strain (from being latched onto a computer screen).

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Re:The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus by koube on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:54PM (#15752402)
Do you have a source for this? It seems dubious that tapping a muscle 50 times would be an effective treatment for muscle strain.
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Re:The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus by sevenfive on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:35AM (#15755021)
...isn't that sort of what a massage is?
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Re:The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus by blarg1 on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:11AM (#15756463)
I use to suffer from bad head aches, pain from my eyes as well as a throbbing pain. Though it was just from withdrawal from having too much caffeine/sugar and then going cold turkey on them which I was doing in cycles.
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Re:The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus by tome on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @06:34AM (#15756021)
Ah, that's interesting. In the past I've had mild tinnitus only in my right ear, and I've had a sensitive sternocleidomastoid, but only the right one!
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