Do you remember the Q-Ray Bracelets? You know, the magnetic bracelets that promised to supply immediate and substantial pain relief from arthritis and other chronic conditions? Well, you won’t see much of that promoting anymore; in 2008, the creators of the Q-Ray Bracelets were legally obligated to repay customers a maximum of $87 million due […]
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Hearing impairment is treacherously sneaky. It creeps up on a person over the years so gradually you barely detect it, making it all too easy to deny it’s even there. And afterwards, when you at last acknowledge the signs and symptoms, you shrug it off as troublesome and aggravating as its true effects are hidden. […]
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Fame, fortune, and screaming fans — these are a few of the terms and phrases you’d pick in order to describe the lifestyle of a professional musician. But what you almost certainly wouldn’t take into account is “hearing loss” or “tinnitus,” the not-so-pleasant side-effects of all that fame, wealth, and screaming. The sad irony is, […]
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Today, countless people wear hearing aids on a daily basis to be able to hear better. This has been the case throughout history, although the technology has certainly come a long way. Readily available in several shapes, sizes, and even colors, today’s hearing aids only weigh a few ounces when they used to weigh several […]
Brain hearing is one of the most recent developments in the hearing aid industry. As a result of it coming to fruition over the last few years, it has started to radically change the way that people view hearing loss in general. Unlike the older models of hearing aids that were large and unsightly, these […]
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I’m sorry to let you down, but the “speech banana” is not an innovative new super fruit; it isn’t even edible.The “speech banana” is a distinctive design depicted on an audiogram. Audiograms are plots of sound frequency (on the horizontal axis) and loudness (on the y axis). During a hearing evaluation, each test sound is […]
As hearing professionals, one of the frustrations we encounter in our practice is that the issues that have caused hearing problems in our patients cannot be reversed. One of the primary reasons for hearing loss, for example, is damage to the tiny hair cells in our inner ears that vibrate in response to sound waves. […]
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Central Auditory Processing Disorder, or CAPD, is a hearing disorder in which the trouble lies not with the ears, but with the brain. The person with Central Auditory Processing Disorder hears sounds correctly but something adversely affects the way their brain recognizes and interprets the sounds, especially the sounds associated with speech. The disorder is […]
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A fact that shows how important the ability to hear is to living species on earth is that while scientists have identified many types of reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and mammals who were sightless, they’ve been unable to locate any naturally deaf species. While the ability to hear is important, animals don’t need ears to hear; […]
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