The potential offered for all members of a New England family during the Industrial Revolution in America, for men, women, and even children, was not the only important paradigm shift that occurred.
Often the tinnitus is only in one ear. In some of these situations, the tinnitus can be treated surgically, and thus a visit to an otologist (a physician specializing in the ear) is advisable. Sensorineural tinnitus can have many causes (e.g. noise, medications, head injury, infections, and aging).
1 Trauma to the head or neck can also affect the inner ear or the nerves that affect hearing or brain function that is linked to hearing. 2  These injuries generally cause tinnitus only in one ear. 3  Brain tumors can affect the area of the brain that interprets sound. 4  In these cases you may have tinnitus in one or both ears.