Noise — the Bad Boy of Sports and Audiology
Noise has been topic of many past posts. we’re tired of it and readers probably are too. So why keep posting about noise? Because noise: is controversial is everywhere annoys and distracts is harmful to overall health damages hearing, starting in childhood brings on tinnitus plays into intellectual elitism may disrupt cognition alerts us to environmental…
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Not-So-Ancient Mariners and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
HHTM Staff: Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) has been the subject of many posts at HHTM and we have discussed that not everyone self-induces their NIHL. Those who serve in our armed forces get theirs the old fashioned way — by daily exposure to hazardous levels of workplace noise or as warfighters in high noise combat…
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This Old House: Noises You Need to Hear
HHTM Staff: Do we discuss the sounds that people need to hear? There are times in the office people will state they don’t need to hear those annoying softer sounds, but here we highlight and pass along some areas we don’t normally think of. What’s Your House Saying to You? My soft water conditioner…
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Is Noise the New Sugar?
HHTM Staff: We mention at HHTM that Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is so much a part of the everyday life of Audiologists that we tend to take it for granted, assuming that everyone knows how bad Noise is for your hearing. This thought has prompted some self evaluation which will produce more posts on…
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Missing the Obvious: Why Audiologists Cannot Take Short-Cuts
We like to keep it light and easy here at HHTM, if for no other reason than getting older and not hearing well is hard sledding, so why make a visit to an audiologist any harder than it has to be? But, like the proverbial duck floating smoothly on the surface, there’s a whole lotta…
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