As a service to our readers, Harvard Health Publishing provides access to our library of archived content. Many hearing aids include programs to help with tinnitus. Tinnitus retraining often includes counseling. NIDCD maintains an index of organizations that provide information about normal and disordered hearing, balance, taste and smell, voice, speech and language. This helps to understand the physical cause of tinnitus as well as how to manage it. Through these efforts, we aim to better understand the causes of tinnitus and develop more effective ways to treat it. The electromagnetic coil is a device that delivers short, painless magnetic pulses to the brain. Long-term exposure to loud noises can cause damage to the tiny sensory hair cells that transmit sound to the brain. Because it is only neck or head movements that cause the ringing,There is no FDA-approved drug treatment for tinnitus, and controlled trials have not found any drug, supplement, or herb to be any more effective than a placebo. Tinnitus can occasionally be described as a rhythmic or rhythmic pulsing/whooshing sound. Tinnitus and middle ear infections can also lead to tinnitus.