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 normally perceived 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 crucial part of your hearing aid is the battery: without it, nothing else works, and if it fails, your hearing fails with it. In this short guide,...
6 Ways to Save Your Hearing
The World Health Organization reports that 1.1 billion people are at an increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss, brought about by exposure to excessive sound levels from personal mp3 devices and noisy environments such as nightclubs, bars, concerts, and sporting...
The Psychology of Hearing Loss
If we really 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. In conjunction, the...
A Short Biography of Raymond Carhart, the “Father of Audiology”
Most people are surprised to learn how young the field of audiology actually 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, for instance, you’d have to go back in...
Questions to Ask Your Hearing Specialist Before You Buy Hearing Aids
When it’s time to shop for a car, most of us know exactly what to do. We conduct some research, evaluate options, and compile a list of questions to ask the dealership. We do this so that by the time we’re ready to stop by the dealership, we have an idea of what we’re...
The Digital Advantage: Analog Vs. Digital Hearing Aids
You’ve probably heard that today’s hearing aids are “not your father’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 modern technology so much better? And what exactly...
The Top 5 Hearing Aid Myths Exposed
At times, it seems as if we prefer to mislead ourselves. Wikipedia has an entry titled “List of common misconceptions” that consists of hundreds of widely-held but false beliefs. Yes, I know it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the webpage and you’ll see...
How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test
You have just concluded your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now entering the room and provides you with a chart, like the one above, except that it has all of these signs, colors, and lines. This is designed to provide you with the exact, mathematically...
How to Persuade Someone to Get a Hearing Test
We don’t need to explain to you the symptoms of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a completely different kind of challenge: persuading someone you care about to get their hearing evaluated and treated. But how are you expected to get through...