Hear In Private Practice

Although rare, hearing loss is a symptom of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).  Of those with MS, 6%  report hearing loss.  There is a smaller amount that report HL as one of the first symptoms of their MS, which are documented in a few studies. There are test results, which we in the hearing industry use, that are found to have a

Hearing aids are tiny instruments made with even tinier parts: the microphone, circuit chip, and speaker (receiver). Hearing aids deliver sound into the ear through a narrow “sound tube.” This tube is about the size of the lead in a pencil or a small strand of spaghetti. Because the tube is so tiny, it takes only a minuscule amount of

Have any of you had contact with, or maybe are, a member of the military coming back from combat and dealing with a myriad of challenges?  Some of the invisible barriers include hearing loss and tinnitus.  Recently, NBC published an article about Hearing Loss as the most prevalent injury among returning vets.  A returning vet interviewed in the article stated

by Bob Martin   If you wear hearing aids, this week’s post is for you, your family, and anyone who helps you. It deals with this common problem: Your hearing with hearing aids was fine for several months, but now something has gone wrong and you don’t hear well anymore.   IS IT THE BATTERY? The first thing you need

Before Christmas Gael Hannan wrote a blog about her wish list to Santa.  One item on the list was to get material from her audiologist that didn’t offer purchase promotions for new products or upgrades around the Holidays.  We take a page out of her list and have for years.  In October we mail out a four-page newsletter that includes

By Robert L. Martin I am sometimes asked, “What about the hearing aids I see advertised in the newspaper or on the Internet?” The simple answer is “These hearing aids do not work.” To understand my answer, you need to know how hearing aids are fitted. There are many critical stages to a hearing aid fitting. These include: • making

Most practitioners have had a client with various types of simple tinnitus (ringing, buzzing, chirping, etc.). Many others hear more complex sounds (music or voices), but do not report it  in their case history because they fear being diagnosed as “crazy”. The latter is known as Musical Ear Syndrome (MES), and includes hearing voices singing, bands or orchestras playing, or

Editor’s Note:  This week’s post is from one of my dynamo audiologists, Jennifer T. Lamfers, AuD and AnaMarie Garcia who is an Administrative Specialist who took Jennifer’s ideas and made them work into a translation to Spanish that works with our area of Spanish Speakers.  We have a couple of people in the office who speak Spanish, but sometimes just

By Robert L. Martin Scientific understanding of aging is changing rapidly. We used to believe that people got weak and forgetful as they aged. We also used to believe that the neurons in the brain could not be replaced if they were damaged. We thought that brain cells could not re-grow and that the synaptic interconnections between neurons could not

What is Misophonia?  Basically, it is being extremely sensitive to background sounds that most of the population can ignore.  These individuals are unable to block out the offending stimulus (sound), which acts as a “trigger” to an acute negative emotional response by the person due to this sound.   One site describes a type of Mysophonia as  4S (Selective Sound Sensitivity),