“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 […]
For anyone who is finding it more difficult to hear female voices or children’s voices than to hear male voices, it could be an indication that you’ve experienced some degree of high-frequency hearing loss. Women’s and children’s voices have a higher frequency than men’s voices – 165 to 255 Hz, in contrast to 85 to […]
One topic that is rarely mentioned with regards to hearing loss is how to keep people who have it safe inside their own homes. For example, imagine that a fire starts in your home; if you are like most people you have smoke detectors to sound a warning so that you and your loved ones […]
Hearing loss comes in many forms – it might develop gradually (for example, as the result of aging) or all of a sudden (as the result of an injury or trauma). The hearing loss itself can be temporary or permanent, and may vary from mild (having difficulty understanding casual conversation) to severe (complete deafness). A […]
