That's how Tinnitus Retraining Therapy works, but there's also a physical component that makes it more likely. Researchers have hypothesized that if you have s

That's how Tinnitus Retraining Therapy works, but there's also a physical component that makes it more likely. Researchers have hypothesized that if you have sharp notches in your hearing thresholds at certain frequencies, your brain is more likely to try to fill in with tinnitus than if you had a flatter loss across the spectrum. As the article states, this is still an active research area -- we don't really have a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms that create tinnitus yet.