Hearing problems can happen gradually with age, making them easy to ignore. Yet, they can have a devastating impact — contributing to depression and social isolation among older Americans. In a recent survey of AARP members, more than half reported having untreated hearing health issues. In many cases, the problem isn’t even being discussed. A [...]
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Archive | Hearing Health
Learn to hear again with some help
Posted on 28 June 2012.
By Stephen P. Tobias We have all heard of the people that get hearing aids and put them in the drawer after trying them a few times. I’d like to offer an explanation as to why this happens. It’s easy to see that there must be an issue with the comfort, sound or performance. Did [...]
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Do you hear what I hear?
Posted on 25 May 2012.
By Robert Mario In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. For example, the pitch of someone’s voice, and how it changes as they are speaking, depends on a complex series of varying frequencies. Knowing how [...]
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Diabetic Women Subject to Greater Hearing Loss
Posted on 03 May 2012.
By Robert Mario Diabetes may cause women to experience a greater degree of hearing loss as they age, especially if the metabolic disorder is not well controlled with medication, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Women between the ages of 60 and 75 with well-controlled diabetes had better hearing than [...]
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Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, Part 2
Posted on 24 February 2012.
By Robert Mario There is no cure for tinnitus, but for many sufferers there is a treatment approach. The work of Dr. Jastreboff, of Emory University, has lead to the conclusion that by retraining the brain to habituate, or ignore certain noises, patients could eventually be free from the annoying symptoms. The method of treatment [...]
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Help is available for tinnitus sufferers, part 1
Posted on 27 December 2011.
By Robert Mario Suffering from a “ringing in the ears” sounds benign enough on the scale of medical problems, but tinnitus and related hearing disorders that affect millions of Americans can become so severe that they lead to decreased life quality, anxiety, panic, depression and social isolation. Ringing in the ears, or tinnitus, is a [...]
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