HEARING TIPS
Understanding Your Treatment Options for Tinnitus
Roughly 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no external sound source exists. This phantom sound is commonly identified as a ringing sound, but can also materialize as a buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, or clicking....
Getting the Most Out of Your Hearing Aid Batteries
Zinc-air-battery-types by Marc Andressen is licensed under Attribution CC 2.0 You could make a strong case that the most critical part of your hearing aid is the battery: without it, nothing else works, and if it fails, your hearing fails with it. In this concise...
6 Ways to Save Your Hearing
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion individuals are at an increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss, induced by exposure to substantial sound levels from personal music devices and noisy environments such as nightclubs, bars, concerts, and...
The Psychology of Hearing Loss
If we genuinely want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively more difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional responses to the loss of hearing. Jointly, the two...
A Short Biography of Raymond Carhart, the “Father of Audiology”
Many people are surprised to learn how young the profession of audiology really is, and just how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, as an example, you’d have to go...
Questions to Ask Your Hearing Specialist Before You Buy Hearing Aids
Questions to Ask Your Hearing Specialist Before You Buy Hearing Aids When it’s time to buy a car, most of us know exactly what to do. We complete some research, evaluate options, and compose a list of questions to ask the dealership. We work on this so that by the...
The Digital Advantage: Analog Vs. Digital Hearing Aids
You’ve probably been told that today’s hearing aids are “not your grandfather's hearing aids,” or that hearing aid technology is light-years ahead of where it used to be, even as recently as 5 to 10 years ago. But what makes today’s technologies so much better? And...
The Top 5 Hearing Aid Myths Exposed
Sometimes, it seems as if we prefer to mislead ourselves. Wikipedia has an article named “List of common misconceptions” that contains hundreds of universally-held but false beliefs. Yes, I understand it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the page and...
How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test
You’ve just concluded your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now entering the room and presents you with a chart, like the one above, except that it has all of these icons, colors, and lines. This is intended to show you the exact, mathematically precise...
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