For those of you who’ve suffered some type of hearing loss, do you ever find yourself needing to work really hard to understand what is being said to you or around you? This experience of having to work to understand people is common even among people who use hearing aids, because the aids need to […]
May 26, 2013 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Aids News
Patients being fitted for a hearing aid in order to hear better often ask what the hearing aid will do with sounds which are still too loud for them. Thankfully there’s a comforting answer to this specific question. The simple answer is that present-day hearing aids will not increase sounds which are already too loud […]
Understanding the way we hear is the starting point in understanding the numerous reasons for hearing loss and the different forms of hearing loss. We receive sounds through the outer ear, which is not just the section of the ear on the outside of our heads, but also the ear canal and the eardrum. In […]
May 12, 2013 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Aids News
The question of precisely how long hearing aid batteries can be expected to last is not as simple to respond to as it seems, because battery life hinges on numerous factors. How long a battery will last depends on who manufactured the battery, and may even vary across different models from the exact same manufacturer. […]
A number of the conditions that cause hearing loss in our patients cannot be reversed which is quite frustrating for our hearing specialists. One of the main reasons for hearing loss, for example, is damage to the tiny hair cells in our inner ears that vibrate in reaction to sounds. Our sense of hearing is […]
April 25, 2013 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Tinnitus Articles
Tinnitus is widespread in the U.S. with approximately 50 million sufferers above age 50. Tinnitus sufferers hear continuous sounds in their heads that others cannot hear such as clicking, buzzing, humming, ringing or whistling. Tinnitus is often known by its slang name – ringing-in-the-ears. For some tinnitus sufferers, this constant onslaught of noise is more […]
Hearing aids have not in the past always worked well with cellular phones, because of electronic interference between the 2 devices that triggered static, whizzing or screeching noises, or dropped words. New government regulations, together with significant improvements in both cell phone and hearing aid technology, have made this incompatibility uncommon. The labeling requirements mandated […]
April 11, 2013 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Aids News
Hearing aids are a significant financial investment, so in the event that you’ve experienced hearing loss in both ears, you naturally ask, “Do I actually need two hearing aids, or could I hear just as well with only one?” In the vast majority of situations, the many benefits of wearing two hearing aids surpass that […]
For anyone who is finding it more difficult to hear female voices or children’s voices than to hear male voices, it could be an indication that you’ve experienced some degree of high-frequency hearing loss. Women’s and children’s voices have a higher frequency than men’s voices – 165 to 255 Hz, in contrast to 85 to […]
One topic that is rarely mentioned with regards to hearing loss is how to keep people who have it safe inside their own homes. For example, imagine that a fire starts in your home; if you are like most people you have smoke detectors to sound a warning so that you and your loved ones […]
