Researching hearing aids can be challenging if you are not familiar with the many acronyms commonly used to identify common styles. The following collection includes most of the abbreviations you are likely to encounter when researching hearing aids and provides… Read More
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What is the Meaning of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo or BPPV?
Vertigo – the sensation of motion where the person or the person’s surroundings seem to spin and move – is, typically an unpleasant event. Feelings of vertigo can disrupt balance and lead to falls that can be serious in the… Read More
Shopping for Headphones for Your Kids
If you have children, sooner or later they will ask you to purchase them headphones that they can use with their music players, computers, and gaming systems. And there are reasons for this, because headphones can improve the experience of… Read More
Precisely What do Speech Bananas and Audiograms Have To Do With Hearing?
“Speech bananas” are not afternoon snacks for audiologists.It’s a reference to the placement of sounds in an audiogram – a graphical representation of an individual’s hearing acuity within a range of volumes and frequencies. Audiograms are typically graphed with the… Read More
Which Type of Ear Protection Should Recreational Shooters Use
America has a strong history of gun usage, based to some degree on the movies and television programs we knew as a kids, which showed us images of policemen and cowboys firing guns almost all the time. The impression from… Read More
PSAs Are Not Made for for People with Hearing Loss
What is the exact difference between a hearing aid and a personal sound amplifier (PSA)? One big difference is that the PSA is being heavily advertised in recent months generating a lot of confusion. One reason you don’t see as… Read More
An Introduction to Swimmer’s Ear – Its Origins, Signs and Symptoms and Treatment Methods
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
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