<HTML>In a message dated 7/8/01 12:57:56 PM Central Daylight Time, DGPEAKE@AOL.COM writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> This went on for well over a year. After several visits to many doctors, I hurt my back and started seeing a chiropractor. </BLOCKQUOTE> I have a similar anecdote about a Chiropractor curing a hearing problem.  I never had a hearing loss, tinitis or over sensitivity but for a few years in a row, I had this intermittent "crackling" sound in my left ear when sound levels were high or when I would sing and sometimes even when speaking.  My hearing was tested and found normal and no MD had a diagnosis or treatment. I developed a terrible tendinitis in my right arm (which was also made worse by the MD's treatment) and finally sought treatment from a Chiropractor.   When he adjusted my neck, I felt an opening up sensation in the ear and the bothersome "crackling" noises never returned again.  The Chiropractor remarked that this is the way his profession got started:  with a hearing problem being corrected by spinal manipulation. I don't know what to say or offer the originator of this thread but I use ordinary drug store ear plugs when tuning and whenever sound levels are high or bothersome and always when sleeping.  While I enjoy music of all types, I also enjoy and appreciate total quiet.  I can hear very soft sounds and would like to continue to hear them as long as I live.  I do not like loud, dance club type music simply because it is loud and desensitizes the ear to the more important and pleasurable things there are to listen to. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>