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Hearing Aid Fitting. The Best Next Step
After months (more likely years) of your family and friends urging you to seek help for your fairly obvious hearing loss, you gave in and had your hearing tested. After your hearing test, your audiologist…
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Diagnosing Tinnitus
How to Diagnose Tinnitus Have you ever heard a ringing in your ear that could not be attributed to any outside sources? What about a hissing, roaring, sizzling or clicking? If so, it sounds like…
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Maintaining Your Hearing Aid
Would you buy a new camera and never clean the lens? What about buying a beautiful five-burner gas stove and never planning to wash off the droplets of dried sauce? Of course not; you are…
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Tinnitus Retraining Therapy
Figuring out the cause of your symptoms is an important step in any treatment process. If your allergies are caused by your pet, you can get allergy shots; if chronic sinus infections are caused by…
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Client Interaction
I always love it when my clients share information they have found pertaining to hearing loss with me. I learn as much from them as hopefully they do from me.One of my clients, Lois, often…
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Why Do You Hear a Ringing in Your Ears?
Do you ever hear sounds that are not really there? I don’t mean like footsteps in your upstairs hallway or someone saying your name in a crowded Thousand Oaks shop, more like a buzzing, roaring,…
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When Should You Upgrade Your Hearing Aid?
New Technology, Better Hearing Experience Most people are in no rush to update their belongings, especially when things still work. Is your microwave older than you are? Yeah, but if it still cooks popcorn why…
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Baseline Hearing
It always amazes me that our primary care doctors send us for all sorts of tests as we hit another milestone in our lives, yet rarely refer us for a hearing test. I think because…
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Tinnitus treatment is just a buzz, ring or click away
When you are alone with your thoughts in sunny Simi Valley, California, as you often are when trying to fall asleep, do you ever hear a ringing, buzzing, roaring or clicking sound? If so, you…
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Can Young People Also Suffer from Hearing Loss?
Much like poor eyesight and back pain, hearing loss is not confined to just older adults. Children of all ages in the Thousand Oaks area and throughout the country can and do experience hearing loss. Roughly…