You’ve taken your audiologist’s advice and gotten a hearing aid.
You’ve stored your batteries to ensure it’s working properly.
What else is there to do?
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With all of the fascinating technology being developed on a near-daily basis, hearing aids seem – and have become – thoroughly modern devices. However, the history of hearing aids stretches back several decades, to a brilliant physicist and author named Harvey Fletcher.
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Hearing aids are fantastic devices…IF your batteries are functioning properly.
Without properly functioning batteries, hearing aids are little more than extremely expensive earplugs.
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Wearing a hearing aid can save your life.
Hearing loss, especially in a large, busy city, can negatively affect your ability to properly react to dangerous elements.
So why are people so hesitant to get hearing aids?
A variety of reasons:
>>Hearing aids can be bulky.
>>Hearing aids can be unseemly.
>>Hearing aids can be a hassle–where’s the guarantee that when it comes to a crowded party or loud restaurant? Will these hearing aids even work properly?
Enter the Audéo SMART, the world’s smallest hearing system with full wireless functionality.
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In 2008, the American Academy of Audiology introduced October as National Audiology Awareness month.
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Many people suffer from the hearing problem Tinnitus, the common description is ringing in the ears. Clearly it affects hearing, but is it a type of hearing loss?
No.
Hearing is a very precious sense that none should ever take for granted. It is very sad whenever one is diagnosed with a hearing problem. Sometimes the loss is conductive but in many cases it is sensorineural hearing loss.
The question now we all have to ask is, how this hearing loss affects individuals who have it and what can be done to treat this hearing loss?
Thanks to our improvements in technology, now sensorineural loss can be treated more properly. Patients can still lead excellent lives and not have to worry about being at a disadvantage when it comes to their hearing.
