Re: Annual Meeting of the Miso/4S Provider Group in July

[Guest guest]

Excellent. Looking forward to hearing further

 

We are preparing to meet again in July with now 11 providers attempting to collect data on the Misophonia Management Protocol (use of sound along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) which is a team-effort with an audiologist and a psychologist.

Our MMP results have been collected and documented so that we can move to publish our findings for the scientific world.

We will also be discussing the use of the term Decreased Sound Tolerance, or DST as a general term for use with many types of sound sensitivity issues.

Finally, we will include time to figure out how to admit new members to our provider lists, how to include allied health professionals like psychologists, etc.

The group is hoping to schedule a special session with Dr. Pawel Jastreboff to learn more about his new approach, sometime in the fall or winter.

I like to report these details here so you can see that we are busy with creating and including helpful therapies for those who have this problem. I have a good feeling that our first year of data will show positive outcomes from most of those who went thru the whole course of MMP (12-24 weeks of sound therapy along with 6 or so sessions of CBT).

Looking forward to better days.

Dr Marsha , Moderator, Audiologist

[Guest guest]

Thank you Dr for everything you do,

I think many people here on the site would be very interested in knowing that/if

some misophonics have had relief from the MMP. (Is the " sound " portion of the

protocol a desensitization exercise?) Also, is the MMP meant to be a " cure " or

as a coping mechanism?

I am wondering if you are thinking that 4S/Miso/DST is a psych disorder. In

previous discussions, you intimated that your belief is that it is a

" hard-wired " (meaning neurological) condition.

If this is not a psych condition, I urge your group of audiologists to get some

neurologists on board, in addition to (or instead of) psychologists.

Thank you again.

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> We are preparing to meet again in July with now 11 providers attempting to

collect data on the Misophonia Management Protocol (use of sound along with

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) which is a team-effort with an audiologist and a

psychologist.

>

> Our MMP results have been collected and documented so that we can move to

publish our findings for the scientific world.

>

> We will also be discussing the use of the term Decreased Sound Tolerance, or

DST as a general term for use with many types of sound sensitivity issues.

>

> Finally, we will include time to figure out how to admit new members to our

provider lists, how to include allied health professionals like psychologists,

etc.

>

> The group is hoping to schedule a special session with Dr. Pawel Jastreboff to

learn more about his new approach, sometime in the fall or winter.

>

> I like to report these details here so you can see that we are busy with

creating and including helpful therapies for those who have this problem. I

have a good feeling that our first year of data will show positive outcomes from

most of those who went thru the whole course of MMP (12-24 weeks of sound

therapy along with 6 or so sessions of CBT).

>

> Looking forward to better days.

>

> Dr Marsha , Moderator, Audiologist

>

[Guest guest]

Yes your thinking is sound.

I personally do believe miso/4S/DST is indeed a hard wired condition and not a

psychological one. This is why we are using partners who are psychologists but

who use CBT, not other forms of psycho therapy, etc. etc.

Yes I also believe people are indeed managing better with the MMP. I believe

down the road there may be a cure but that in the meantime, we can manage with

certain programs to help detach the incoming triggers with the subconscious

neural response.

This is not unknown to those in my profession, it is what we do with tinnitus.

There is good evidence from the past and more accumulating now that will

demonstrate these principles and positive outcomes.

I am working now with a fine group of colleagues to provide the MMP and other

approaches, no doubt soon, that will be very helpful for this group.

It may not be a cure, but it will be a help and a relief.

Dr. J

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> > We are preparing to meet again in July with now 11 providers attempting to

collect data on the Misophonia Management Protocol (use of sound along with

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) which is a team-effort with an audiologist and a

psychologist.

> >

> > Our MMP results have been collected and documented so that we can move to

publish our findings for the scientific world.

> >

> > We will also be discussing the use of the term Decreased Sound Tolerance, or

DST as a general term for use with many types of sound sensitivity issues.

> >

> > Finally, we will include time to figure out how to admit new members to our

provider lists, how to include allied health professionals like psychologists,

etc.

> >

> > The group is hoping to schedule a special session with Dr. Pawel Jastreboff

to learn more about his new approach, sometime in the fall or winter.

> >

> > I like to report these details here so you can see that we are busy with

creating and including helpful therapies for those who have this problem. I

have a good feeling that our first year of data will show positive outcomes from

most of those who went thru the whole course of MMP (12-24 weeks of sound

therapy along with 6 or so sessions of CBT).

> >

> > Looking forward to better days.

> >

> > Dr Marsha , Moderator, Audiologist

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