Quiet, on your terms.

HushOS adapts ideas from publicly available academic work — these are starting points, not promises of clinical outcomes. Experiences vary.

• TRT (Tinnitus Retraining Therapy) — Jastreboff & Hazell's neurophysiological model: directive counselling plus sound enrichment to habituate the brain's response.
• Notched music therapy — Okamoto et al., PNAS 2010: listening to music with a one-octave notch around the tinnitus frequency significantly reduced loudness over twelve months.
• Acoustic coordinated reset (CR) — Tass and colleagues: short tone sequences around the tinnitus pitch, based on the desynchronisation hypothesis of pathological neural firing.
• CBT — Cima et al., recommended by the European and UK NICE guidelines as the first-line therapy for tinnitus-related distress.
• Internet-CBT — Andersson, Kaldo and Beukes RCTs: structured eight-week iCBT — trial participants reported meaningful TFI drops comparable to in-person therapy, at a fraction of the cost.
• Somatic tinnitus — Levine et al. and the TMJA literature: a substantial proportion of tinnitus can be modulated by jaw, neck or shoulder movement, and targeted physiotherapy helps.
• Hyperacusis (sound tolerance) — Khalfa et al. (questionnaire) and Aazh / Moore (treatment): gentle, structured re-exposure with low-level pink noise improves tolerance over six to eight weeks in most people.
• HRV / coherence breathing — McCraty et al. and Russo et al.: slow breathing at around 5.5 breaths per minute maximises heart-rate variability and shifts the autonomic balance, reducing the fight-or-flight component of tinnitus distress.