Tag: Hyperacusis

Working with Tinnitus Is More Than Masking

Robert Traynor American Tinnitus Association / Audiology / Audiology Practice / Auditory Hallucinations / Hearing aids / Psychological Disorders and Audiology / Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss / Sham treatments for Hearing Loss and Tinnitus / tinnitus / Tinnitus and Epilepsy / Tinnitus and Siezures / Tinnitus Treatment

All of a sudden there is lots of talk and ads by audiologists about tinnitus on television and in the mailbox, where did that come from?  Audiology is highly competitive these days and in the 2019 US marketplace the treatment of hearing loss alone is no longer a lucrative business in many areas.  As the…

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Living with Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome

Robert Traynor Audiology / Barometric Pressure changes and Auditory Disorders / Barometric pressure changes and Menieres Disease / Menieres Disease / Neurotology / Otolaryngology / Philippa Thomson / Science and Dizziness / Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome

by Philippa Thomson Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome (SCDS) is a rare condition compared to other causes of dizziness.  Hain (2016) has diagnosed 46 patients compared to several thousand with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV).  Thus, SCDS is much less prevalent than BPPV which is known to affect 2% of the population. As it is…

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