That anecdotally matches my experience thinking about it. After my initial hearing damage from someone clearing a rifle before everyone put on hearing protecti

That anecdotally matches my experience thinking about it. After my initial hearing damage from someone clearing a rifle before everyone put on hearing protection it took a while for it to attenuate to background noise but flares beyond that volume. Things that certainly avoid flares is when I have a good sleeping setup where I avoid being crumpled or my neck kinked. I have good posture in general but sometimes weird working locations, off site meetings, hackathons, etc would lead to my tinnitus getting worse. I chalked that up to being physically tired from travel and lacking sleep (both of which seems to also increase my tinnitus)but when reflecting back I don’t recall having much Tinnitus when my son was a newborn through a one year old and I basically slept walk that whole year. I think on the count back the neck posture and likely the muscles in my neck and head lacking tension is what is keeping it from being worse.