by Hear Virginia | Aug 16, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
Eardrums are important, serving two vitally important roles in hearing. First and foremost they vibrate in response to sound. Second they create a barrier that safeguards the inner ear from infection. While undamaged, the eardrum seals off the inner ear setting up a...
by Hear Virginia | Aug 9, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
Patients with vertigo incorrectly perceive motion (commonly a rotating motion) in their surroundings. The sensations of vertigo occasionally include dizziness, spinning or falling. When vertigo affects balance, it can result in falls and accidental injuries –...
by Hear Virginia | Jul 30, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
One of the things you can look forward to if you have kids is that sooner or later they are going to ask you to get them some headphones to use with their gaming systems, music players and computers. No huge shock there. After all, headphones often offer a better...
by Hear Virginia | Jul 23, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
The term “speech banana” brings a lot of funny images to mind, for instance a banana-shaped listening device, but that would be incorrect.The “speech banana” is a specific design depicted on an audiogram. Audiograms are graphs of sound...
by Hear Virginia | Jul 16, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
America’s fascination with guns is almost unique across the globe; we grew up with television programs and movies about cowboys and police and heroic characters who were all totin’ guns and firing them regularly. Constant encounters with these images is...
by Hear Virginia | Jun 28, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
Acute external otitis is an infection of the outer ear canal – the part outside your eardrum. Virtually all people know it by its common name – swimmer’s ear. This type of infection was named “swimmer’s ear” because it’s very...
