Acute external otitis or otitis externa is an infection of the outer ear canal – the portion outside your eardrum. Virtually all people know it by its common name – swimmer’s ear. The familiar name swimmer’s ear originates from the… Read More
Archive for June, 2013
The Latest in Music Therapy for Tinnitus Patients
Sound in an amazing thing. It influences our emotions and thoughts in so many different ways – both negative and positive. For instance, for most of us, hearing music we like is calming and relaxing, but turn the volume of… Read More
Considerations in the Hearing Aid Repair or Replace Decision
One of the more common questions we hear is, “My older hearing aid is broken or is not performing the way it used to – do you think I should buy a new one, or have it fixed?” Presented with… Read More
Research into the Connections Between Hearing Loss and Dementia
If you have some type of hearing impairment, do you ever notice that listening to people speak is work, and that you have to try hard to understand what people are saying? This is a sensation that happens even to… Read More