Protect your ears! Tinnitus can happen to drummers too!

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Tinnitus is a constant ringing sound in your ears that refuses to go away, it can be a result of an ear infection or prolong exposure to loud noise.

Presently, there is no effective cure for tinnitus, and many sufferers of tinnitus have to bear with the phantom ringing sound in their ears the entire day.

Kids especially, love listening to their Ipods or MP3 players with the music crank up real loud, they have no idea the damage they are causing to their ears. Music is cool, loud music is not.

Lower the volume of your music player and give your ears some rest.

Drummers are also susceptible to loud sounds during practice or performance, so wear proper ear protection like ear plugs.

I advise my students to wear ear plugs or play at a moderate sound level to safeguard their hearing, it is important because once you develop tinnitus, it is irreversible.

I recommend Hearos ear protection, I have tried it and I use it during my lessons or performance.

Save your ears, wear ear protection today.

Note: Ear plugs are readily available in music stores, ear plugs are inexpensive and definitely worth the investment, check your local music stores today.
For tinnitius sufferers, you can visit this website to get some comfort for your tinnitius, it is a FREE white noise generator that can help mask the irritating noises caused by tinnitus. It has been an effective tool that generates white, pink and brown noise, it has a volume control as well as a recently added oscillating feature that varies the sound volume.