Benjamin Franklin got it right when he said “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Just as you would take preventative measures to protect yourself from heart disease or diabetes, it pays to protect yourself from occupational hearing loss and hearing problems caused by exposure to loud music, power motors, and sport […]
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Central Auditory Processing Disorder, or CAPD, is a challenging condition to diagnose accurately for several good reasons. Conventional hearing tests don’t always detect CAPD because the disorder stems from the brain, not the ears. Youngsters with CAPD can hear spoken phrases and sounds, especially speech, but their brains incorrectly process the auditory signals sent by […]
Patients with vertigo mistakenly experience movement (commonly a spinning motion) in their surroundings. Vertigo can hinder balance, causing falls which can be serious among older adults, and may be accompanied by dizziness, a feeling that you’re spinning or falling, and in serious cases migraine headaches, nausea, vomiting, an inability to see properly (nystagmus), as well […]
Eardrums are very important, playing two very important roles in hearing. First they vibrate when sound waves strike them. Second they establish a barrier that safeguards the inner ear from infection. Whenever your eardrum is intact, your inner ear is basically a safe and sterile environment; but when it has been perforated or torn, microbes […]
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Could your work be causing hearing loss? Hearing loss has lots of underlying causes, but the most prevalent remains noise-induced hearing loss. For those who work in one of the following high-noise occupations, you have cause to be concerned about your hearing.The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 30 million workers are subjected to dangerous […]
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Comparing hearing aids can be hard if you’re unfamiliar with the numerous abbreviations commonly used to describe basic types. The following list encompasses most of the abbreviations you will come across when investigating hearing aids and presents a brief explanation of each one. The most effective approach to truly understand the distinctions is to compare […]
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Have you noticed advertisements for low cost “personal sound amplifiers” (PSAs) on television or in magazines lately? These ads are contributing to confusion about the difference between PSAs and hearing aids. The reason you don’t see very many advertising campaigns for hearing aids is because they are medical devices, monitored by the Food & Drug […]
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If you have kids, at some point they will ask you to purchase them headphones to use with their gaming systems, music players and computers. Not any big shock there. On balance, headphones often provide a better experience when used in combination with various entertainment and learning multimedia. Because the request is inevitable, here are […]
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I’m sorry to let you down, but the “speech banana” is not an innovative new super fruit; it isn’t even edible.The “speech banana” is a distinctive design depicted on an audiogram. Audiograms are plots of sound frequency (on the horizontal axis) and loudness (on the y axis). During a hearing evaluation, each test sound is […]
Dr. Brown and Cleveland ENT, Physician Hearing Centers are proud to present our new practice video. The video provides a good introduction to our unique practice of the Doctor/Audiologist team working together to help our patients solve their hearing problems. We take great pride in looking at the whole patient and how they interact in […]
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