CIST and SSHL

There are studies outlining CIST as a theory, but no clear instructions that I could find on how to do it yourself. I have developed a protocol to follow. I am not a doctor. If you want to use it discuss with your ENT or GP first.

A Protocol for CIST – Constraint Induced Sound Therapy. (Jan 2024)

I’ve made some modifications to the CIST protocol on Jan 14 2024.

14 Jan 2024

• Added in ‘frequency Discrimination Learning’ which is training your ear to distinguish different frequencies again.
• Added in ‘composition’ to the checklist, which is spending some time each day trying to write some music. Not sure if this will work but I got the idea from Oliver Sacks.

Here is the latest version:

This is a checklist to help you keep track of progress:

Here is a shorter 1 page version based just on the original CIST:

Here’s a description of why I wrote this protocol.