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So, you’ve treated your hearing loss with hearing aids – but you’re now wondering how you can best optimize your listening settings for the different environments you find yourself in. One of the most common questions my team and I get asked by patients is, “How can I...
Most of us can’t see grass growing, but we can recognize when it is time to get out the lawnmower. Just like growing grass, identifying hearing loss comes on so slowly that most people have no idea they have a problem until it becomes a severe one. The sad thing is...
A few weeks back, on July 15, we hosted a free seminar called: How To Keep Your Mind Sharp When You Have A Hearing Loss – and it proved highly insightful and valuable for the 100+ patients who attended. The talk was presented by Dr. Jodi Sasaki-Miraglia Au.D.,...
First of all, congratulations for looking after your hearing health and researching what’s entailed. In this article, we’ll lay out exactly what happens so that when you come in, you’ll know what to expect. It can be a natural assumption that a hearing assessment will...
Online hearing aids are devices which are purchased online and mailed directly to you. This typically involves sending a copy of your hearing test results and having the hearing aids “pre-programmed” for you based on your hearing. The quality and usability of online...
About 15% of the adult US population experiences some form of hearing loss. That’s 48 million people, so hearing loss is very common, with men twice as likely to have it as women. People associate hearing loss with old age, but people of all ages can experience...
Because hearing loss develops over a long period, your family, friend, or loved one might not be aware of the condition. Often times, those conscious of their deteriorating hearing loss refuse to admit the problem and seek help. How you deal with helping a relative or...
During a Pacific Hearing Service humanitarian trip to Turks and Caicos, the team was able to bring the gift of hearing to a woman who hasn’t been able to for years. The woman – who asked us not to use her name – had hearing aids when she was a little girl but lost...
That both her father and grandfather were ear, nose, and throat doctors had nothing to do with Jane Baxter getting interested in treating hearing loss and becoming a Doctor of Audiology. “I was a development psychology major at UCSB and had never heard of...