I am pretty sure none of this helps people who have actually damaged their ears physically (i.e. loud sound). Because then you sustained physical and irreversib

I am pretty sure none of this helps people who have actually damaged their ears physically (i.e. loud sound). Because then you sustained physical and irreversible damage to your cochlea. It is important to distinguish between this and other tinnitus, like caused by stress, tension, etc. EDIT: Sorry to make it sound like I didn't read the article and just dumped this onto here. I simply noticed a tendency of people to throw this link at tinnitus sufferers without taking into consideration the aforementioned distinction, so yes, this is slightly off-topic.