Improved Testing Technique for High-Frequency Hearing Aid Fitting
In the majority of instances, hearing loss occurs as a slow degeneration of your auditory abilities over many years. The progressive nature of the condition can make it hard to identify, but one of the early signs of hearing loss is difficulty hearing high frequencies. Sometimes referred to as “partial deafness,” the affected are often…
A Better Career with Hearing Aids?
Because the majority of hearing loss cases occur gradually over many years, it can be easy to acclimate to an impairment; consequently, many may overlook the impact of hearing loss on their professional life. However, choosing to cope with hearing loss can create social, emotional and mental barriers that negatively impact your work performance. Being…
Save Your Pets from Hearing Aid Hazards
In many ways, pets are forever toddlers. Despite our best efforts to train and protect them, they have an uncanny ability to endanger themselves. One of the most challenging aspects of this dynamic is being unaware of possible hazards. In fact, many hearing aid wearers may not realize the life-threatening potential of their devices. When…
The Hidden Hearing Loss Effect
Each day we all experience sound in the environment. Many of these sounds are low intensity, satisfying, and others are the mundane sounds of life, such as television, radio, household appliances, cars running, traffic, etc. Most of these sounds are at very safe levels and do not cause any danger to hearing. We also know however,…
The Importance of Annual Hearing Tests in Seniors
The old saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” could very well be the motto of the hearing health industry. Since a high percentage of hearing loss cases are irreversible and preventable, audiology experts are quick to preach the significance of hearing loss prevention. An important part of maintaining your hearing…
Don’t Let Hearing Loss Affect You Career
For decades, our society has attached social stigma to losing your hearing. More often than not, a hearing impairment is attributed to older demographics. Therefore, treating hearing loss through the use of hearing aids has become a stigmatized action as well. Treating a hearing impairment is a critical part of maintaining an individual’s overall health,…
Does Stress Affect Hearing?
Many times I have clients come in and tell me they think their hearing has dropped off or their hearing aids aren’t working properly. Of course, the first thing I do is troubleshoot to make sure that is not the case. Then I start to ask questions: Are you tired or fatigued? Are you under…
Can Hearing Loss Affect Your Dreams?
Our senses allow us to take in the world. Each sense provides a different way to connect and interact with our environment. In addition, our senses can work together and even step in should one sense deteriorate. This is referred to as sensory compensation and has been noted in individuals with hearing and visual impairments….
The Musician Hearing Loss Evolution
As we work through the clinic day, we may find ourselves jealous of our patients with those high frequency hearing losses due to concert their attendance. Often these were the lucky ones with the premier tickets, close to the stage, the musicians, and the speakers as well. As audiologists we now know that those that had…
Hearing Loss Preventative Care Practices
Did you know that October is National Audiology Awareness month? Each time this year, audiology professionals make an additional effort educate the community and increase awareness of audiology and hearing-related disorders. One aspect of hearing health, just as essential as is it is undervalued, is prevention. Though we’ve been encouraged to get regular checkups for…