Tinnitus

French program "100% Mag", M6, april 2008

A short highlight on the Radiohead latest shows in Paris a few days ago, by Jean-Christophe Mary from M-la-music :

If one day you have to explain to an alien what Radiohead is about, just put "OK Computer" at maximum volume between his ears.

Let's hope that this alien won't suffer from tinnitus because of this. It would be stupid to start a nuclear war for such a joke.

Here is a short analysis about Philippe Peignard, one of the major french doctor who's using Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy to cure tinnitus and hyperacusis.

He was interviewed by a french magazine, Paris-Match, and the result was not very convicing for Nono : read his reaction on Hyperblog, his blog about hyperacusis.

Some mail exchange with a former workmate... I noticed he was still enjoying a lot of concerts in London so I decided to let him know about the dangers :

For your information, please take some earplugs you can use if the sound is too loud during concerts... Nobody told me about this years ago and I'm still suffering from this ignorance and my ear trauma it resulted in.

• The first one is that the number of ear trauma is incredibly high. Since my accident I have been talking to a lot of people and a lot of them were already awaree of the danger... simply because ther were injured or knew injured people. To say it clearly, there were ONLY this kind of people who were aware of the danger.

• The second one is that wearing earplug is still not "natural". Well, you have to admit you look like a dumbass with this in your ears, and that is ABSOLUTELY NOT rock'n roll !

• The third one is that everybody is free... and this is perfect like this. I won't lie : a high volume does take part of the pleasure. However, people who know about the dangers and who decide not to protect themselves anyway have to realize that a lot of people absolutely don't know anything about all this. And that your life can be crushed in just a concert. So please, if you know about it, take a few minutes to talk about it OK ?