Dichonics Inc.

February 16 Update:

Hello from Dichonics!

We will now be dispensing ear molds that will hook up to almost any hearing aid as well as transmit our therapy. No more big, bulky headphones!

Dr. Ormon here in Amarillo is now conducting the initial diagnosis. If you would like to make an appointment, call his office at 806-468-4343 and he will do the first work-up and then call us to set up a second appointment at Dichonics.

We are still trying to get our new site up and running, so there isn't much to see, but if you are a dispenser interested in our prescription devices, visit   http://www.tinnitusclinicsofamerica.com/, but don't expect to be impressed by the current state of the pages :/

We still have the paper on our success with tinnitus reduction and a glowing recommendation from one of our patients. To view the report, Click here. To read about our patient's experience, click here.

Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day.

~Shiloh

 Welcome to DICHONICS!

Dichonics uses psychophysics to manipulate the neurological routing of the central auditory processing system to suppress the negative neural output resulting in tinnitus. A complex parathreshold paradigm is used to take advantage of abnormal neural pathology. Hearing loss often causes physiological changes in the auditory nerve. Names such as tone decay and recruitment of loudness describe changes in the auditory system that can be clinically described and can be exploited to shift negative plasticity away from the point of inhibition. THIS IS NOT MASKING and no white noise or music is evident.

We have a 74% success rate in reducing the tinnitus on the first trial. Not every effort is successful in a single clinical visit and for those persons an aural rehabilitation process is employed (called TRT by others) to manipulate the negative brain plasticity thus reducing the tinnitus during the wearing of the training unit and for up to four hours after (based on clinic experiments). Our process is being confirmed by on-going Magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies.

For a description of the therapy and a list of dispensing options, go to the Services page.  

Want to learn more? Contact us and we will be happy to answer any questions.   

 To read our article in the Amarillo Globe click here.

Meg Scan Before and After Stimulus Presentation

This is a MEG scan of a tinnitus sufferer. Image A is the brain before the stimulus is presented. The large blue areas show the effects of the tinnitus. Image B is the brain as the stimulus is being presented. Note how the blue areas are reduced showing the change in the brain scan.

  The chart above shows the percentages of our success rates and failures, as well as cases that fall in between. This data was collected from 62 patients, all treated within the last two years. Success is defined as complete cancelation or a reduction high enough for patient satisfaction.