From our view, somatosenory tinnitus seems to be the dominating type of tinnitus. This kind of tinnitus is caused by muscle tension. Tensed masticatory muscles and neck muscles send sensory signals, wich are experianced as a tinnitus hearing sensation. There is an emanating scientific evidence that the mechanism is a crosstalk between the Trigeminal and the Chochlear nerv pathways in the brainstem that causes the tension signals to be experianced as a sound phenomenon by the patient.

The patient can often change their tinnitus by jaw movement, head movements, or by pressing certain areas of the face, neck or head. They also experiance that their tinnitus changes over time and that it increases during stress.