Do you find yourself worried about hearing impairments from excessive noise levels on the job? Noise-induced hearing loss is the single most frequent cause of hearing damage. Some professions are simply louder than others, and workers in those fields should be reasonably concerned about their hearing. The CDC reports that 30 million workers are subjected […]
Patients with vertigo incorrectly experience motion (often a rotating motion) in their environment. The feelings of vertigo sometimes include dizziness, falling or spinning. Any time vertigo affects balance, it may lead to falls and personal injuries – chiefly among the elderly. More extreme cases can also trigger nausea, vomiting, migraines, visual irregularities called nystagmus and […]
For those who have children that are old enough, they probably own at least one of the following – music players, game systems and computers – perhaps even all three. In the event you answered yes, odds are, at some point they are going to want headphones to use with these products. Headphones can increase […]
“Speech bananas” aren’t morning snacks for hearing specialists. What the term “speech banana” represents is a distinct pattern found in the data of an audiogram, which is a graphical chart used to measure an individual’s hearing proficiency within a set range of frequencies and volume levels. In an audiogram, you usually see the frequency (which […]
America’s affinity for guns is almost unique in the world; we were raised with movies and TV about police and cowboys and heroic characters who were all carrying guns and shooting them constantly. Constant encounters with these images is among many reasons that you will find so many present-day American gun owners who very much […]
Acute external otitis or otitis externa is an infection of the outer ear canal – the portion outside your eardrum. Most people know it by its common name – swimmer’s ear. The popular name swimmer’s ear originates from the fact that the problem is commonly linked to swimming. Anytime moisture remains in the outer ear […]
For those of you who’ve suffered some type of hearing loss, do you ever find yourself needing to work really hard to understand what is being said to you or around you? This experience of having to work to understand people is common even among people who use hearing aids, because the aids need to […]
Understanding the way we hear is the starting point in understanding the numerous reasons for hearing loss and the different forms of hearing loss. We receive sounds through the outer ear, which is not just the section of the ear on the outside of our heads, but also the ear canal and the eardrum. In […]
A number of the conditions that cause hearing loss in our patients cannot be reversed which is quite frustrating for our hearing specialists. One of the main reasons for hearing loss, for example, is damage to the tiny hair cells in our inner ears that vibrate in reaction to sounds. Our sense of hearing is […]
Hearing aids have not in the past always worked well with cellular phones, because of electronic interference between the 2 devices that triggered static, whizzing or screeching noises, or dropped words. New government regulations, together with significant improvements in both cell phone and hearing aid technology, have made this incompatibility uncommon. The labeling requirements mandated […]
