What is tinnitus? Restaurant and nonprofit team up for awareness [Video]

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — For the third year in a row, the American Tinnitus Association (ATA), and Texas Roadhouse are teaming up for Tinnitus Awareness Day on Monday, Feb. 5.

According to the ATA, more than 25 million American adults are impacted by tinnitus, which is an audiological and neurological condition.

“Tinnitus is the perception of sound when no actual external noise is present,” wrote the ATA on its website. “While it is commonly referred to as “ringing in the ears,” tinnitus can manifest many different perceptions of sound, including buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, and clicking.

FOX21 spoke with a hearing aid specialist from HearUSA who said about 90 percent of people who have tinnitus, have some type of hearing loss.

“What’s happening is the brain kind of knows that there’s something missing, there’s something going on, and it’s trying to supplement the hearing loss on its own,” said Ariel Kavanagh.

It’s typically more common in the older …