The hearing healthcare marketplace has two barriers that prevent people from acquiring better hearing: The inability to notice hearing loss in the first place (owing to its gradual onset), and The temptation to find a quick, easy, and inexpensive fix. Regretfully, countless people who have overcome the first barrier have been lured into the supposedly […]
Blausen.com staff. “Blausen gallery 2014”. That there is a right way to clean your ears proposes that there is a wrong way, and in fact, there is a very wrong way. The wrong way is common, and it breaks the first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert foreign objects into your ear canal. That […]
It’s popular to think of hearing loss as an inescapable problem associated with aging, or, more recently, as a consequence of the younger generation’s regular use of iPods. But the numbers reveal that the bigger problem may be exposure to loud noise at work. In the US, 22 million workers are subjected to potentially unsafe […]
July 9, 2015 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Aids News
The saying “you get what you pay for” is especially true of hearing aids, and though modern hearing aids are designed to be more effective than ever, they’re not exactly inexpensive, either. Fortunately, modern digital hearing aids, while not cheap, ARE becoming more inexpensive, in the same manner that most consumer electronics are becoming more […]
June 25, 2015 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
More often than not, people are unaware that they have hearing loss. It develops so slowly and gradually that it’s frequently undetectable, and on top of that, the majority of family physicians do not routinely test for hearing loss at the annual physical examination. Bearing in mind these two facts, it’s no surprise that most […]
Nearly 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no external sound source is present. This phantom sound is commonly identified as a ringing sound, but can also manifest as a buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, or clicking. The first thing to know about tinnitus is that it’s a symptom, not […]
June 11, 2015 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Aids News
Zinc-air-battery-types by Marc Andressen is licensed under Attribution CC 2.0 You could make a strong case that the most vital part 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 show you everything you need to know about […]
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion people are at an increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss, induced by exposure to excess sound levels from personal audio devices and very loud settings such as clubs, bars, concerts, and sporting events. An estimated 26 million Americans currently suffer from the condition. If noise-induced hearing loss […]
If we seriously want to understand hearing loss, we have to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing increasingly difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional reactions to the loss of hearing. Jointly, the two sides of hearing loss can wreak havoc on a person’s total well being, as the physical […]
Most people are surprised to discover how young the discipline of audiology actually is, and just how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you wished to find the founding father of biology, as an example, you’d have to go back in time by 2,300 years and read the […]
