HEARING TIPS
Understanding Your Treatment Options for Tinnitus
About 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no outside 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. The...
Getting the Most Out of Your Hearing Aid Batteries
You could make a strong case that the most critical component of your hearing aid is the battery: without it, nothing else works, and if it fails, your hearing fails with it. In this brief guide, we’ll present to you everything you need to know about hearing aid...
6 Ways to Save Your Hearing
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion individuals are at risk for noise-induced hearing loss, induced by exposure to elevated sound levels from personal audio devices and very loud environments such as nightclubs, bars, concerts, and sporting...
The Psychology of Hearing Loss
If we truly want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional responses to the loss of hearing. In conjunction, the two...
A Short Biography of Raymond Carhart, the “Father of Audiology”
Most people are surprised to learn how young the profession of audiology actually is, and just how recently its founding father established the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, for example, you’d have to go...
Questions to Ask Your Hearing Specialist Before You Buy Hearing Aids
When it’s time to purchase a car, most of us know exactly what to do. We complete some research, compare options, and compile a list of questions to ask the dealership. We work on this so that by the time we’re set to visit the dealership, we have an idea of what...
The Digital Advantage: Analog Vs. Digital Hearing Aids
You’ve more than likely 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...
The Top 5 Hearing Aid Myths Exposed
Sometimes, it seems as if we prefer to deceive ourselves. Wikipedia has an page called “List of common misconceptions” that includes hundreds of widely-held but false beliefs. Yes, I understand it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the page and you’ll...
How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test
You’ve just concluded your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now coming into the room and presents you with a graph, like the one above, except that it has all of these characters, colors, and lines. This is intended to explain to you the exact, mathematically...
How to Persuade Someone to Get a Hearing Test
We don’t need to tell you the signs of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a completely different kind of challenge: persuading someone you care for to get their hearing screened and treated. But how are you expected to get through to someone...