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Hearing Aid Technology To Match Your Lifestyle

Hearing Aid Technology To Match Your Lifestyle

08/16/19

Listening environments vary from person to person.  Some people have very high demanding environments and others have low demanding environments.

Finding the right hearing aid depends on a number of factors such as a person’s unique preferences, lifestyle and the type of hearing loss.  Modern technology has evolved over the years quite a bit.  Today’s hearing aids are packed with more features to help you hear in difficult listening environments.  Plus, they are rechargeable, nearly invisible and provide a more coherent natural listening experience.

Please schedule your hearing assessment / checkup today! Learn more about the advancements in modern hearing aids.

Phone: 702.990.1568

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Recommended Books For Anyone Struggling With Hearing Loss

Recommended Books For Anyone Struggling With Hearing Loss

12/04/18

Many of your patients may have travel plans to see family and friends over the holidays. Between flights, UBER rides, and time spent waiting for both they’ll have a lot of downtime. Because of this, you have an opportunity to recommend some great books on hearing loss and how to cope with it.

Such books are extremely valuable to anyone struggling with hearing loss – from those whom have been recently diagnosed to those whom have lived with it their entire life. There are a ton of great reads you can potentially recommend, so we picked out a few of our favorites to save you some time.

In no particular order, here are some books your patients may find helpful:

Shouting Won’t Help: Why I – and 50 Million Other Americans – Can’t Hear Youby Katherine BoutinAn engaging account of the author’s struggles and triumphs with, as she calls it, her “invisible disability”, Shouting Won’t Help: Why I – and 50 Million Other Americans – Can’t Hear You received positive reviews from the New York Times and People magazine. In addition to going into detail about her own struggles, Katherine Boutin also speaks with doctors, audiologists, neurobiologists, and other experts to help shed light on the widely misunderstood phenomenon of hearing loss. Perhaps the most uplifting moments of the book are when Boutin writes about the return of her hearing through the help of doctors, hearing specialists, and modern technologies. It is available for purchase on Amazon in digital, paperback, and hardcover formats.

The Way I Hear It: A Life with Hearing Lossby Gael HannanIn The Way I Hear It: A Life with Hearing Loss, author Gael Hannan uses humor, personal experiences, and practical strategies to take readers on a journey that looks at hearing loss at every stage of life. She offers tips on how to communicate effectively with hearing loss and provides heart-felt vignettes from people whom have attended her seminars and conferences. Because of the witty writing and effective storytelling, people without hearing loss will find it entertaining and insightful as well, making it a great book for your patients to share with their loved ones whom want to better understand their condition. It is available for purchase on Amazon in digital and paperback formats.

Living with Hearing Lossby Marcia B. DuganMarcia is a past president of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), which is now the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA). In Living with Hearing Loss, she dives into all types of hearing loss, their causes, and the early warning signs of each. Additionally, she provides thorough information on seeking professional evaluations, assessing hearing aids and other assistive technologies, the potential of cochlear implants, dealing with tinnitus symptoms, and more. Leveraging her personal experiences, she also offers suggestions on how people with hearing loss can adjust in the workplace and other everyday situations. It is essentially a survival handbook for anyone struggling with hearing loss. It is available for purchase on Amazon in paperback format.

A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Lossby David G. MyersLast, but not least, A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss chronicles the struggles author David G. Myers faced with his gradual hearing loss. In great detail, he and describes problems the hard of hearing deal with both at home and in the outside world, particularly in the workplace. He also writes about hearing loss solutions, makes recommendations on coping strategies, touches on how family and friends can help, and provides information on new technologies and surgical procedures readers may wish to consider. It is available for purchase on Amazon in digital, hardcover, and paperback formats.

Any of the aforementioned books will entertain, enlighten, and help your patients. For those you are seeing before the holidays, ask them what their plans are. If they’re going to be doing a lot of traveling, recommend one of these books. Just be prepared to have a discussion with them about it during their next visit. They’ll likely be dying to talk with you about it.

Source:by Adam DawsonHow to Live with Hearing Loss: Books to Recommend Your Patientse3diagnostics.com

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Loss of hearing is just a problem for the elderly, right?

Loss of hearing is just a problem for the elderly, right?

10/15/17

Reconsider that thought, because exposure to noise – and not a person’s age – is the main trigger of hearing loss. It’s commonplace for older persons to suffer from hearing problems, but more younger people are affected by everyday noise as well. The post-war generation is going through skin cancer as a cause of all the sun tanning they did as young adults. And now this age group is also plagued by hearing deficiencies caused by being exposed to plenty of harmful noise.

Scientific groundwork made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) shows clearly that 16.7 percent of people in the US between the ages of 12 and 19 show signs of hearing loss as a result of exposure to too much noise. 42 million people between the ages of 20 and 69 suffer from hearing loss as a result of everyday sounds like for example traffic, listening to music via head phones, loud restaurants, concerts, or sporting events.

Even worse is that the younger age groups have no idea that hearing loss is irreversible. When loud noises destroy the exceptionally sensitive in-ear cells that make it possible for us to hear sounds, they do not rejuvenate as time goes by. Instead, the more frequently your ears are exposed to detrimental noise, the more of your cells stop working, thus ultimately causing permanent hearing loss.

Follow this advice to protect your hearing capabilities:

Turn the volume level down: Amongst the most common conditions is turning up the volume in your headphones and audio devices. And these gizmos are much more sophisticated than they were 30 years ago. Hence, when you listen to music, turn the sound level down!

Use ear plugs: Regardless of whether you’re at a concert, in a music group, working in your garage, or working with noisy machinery, it is very important that you wear ear plugs. If you regularly attend live concerts, get a pair of ear plugs for musicians. They protect you against loud sounds, and let you hear precisely.

Reduce noise exposure: Many workout classes brim with high energy and loud music. Stand at a distance from the loudspeaker and constrain exposure to the loud noise. Just as before, ear plugs are at all times a great pick!

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