The World Health Organization (WHO) has projected that by 2050, hearing loss’s pervasiveness across the world will double its numbers. It’s 2025 – meaning you have a 25-year head start on addressing your hearing loss with professional treatment solutions. Hearing loss...
When counseling patients about their hearing test results, I’ll often describe the mechanism of how we hear, how sound in our environment is converted into electrical impulses for the brain to interpret. They almost universally remark about what an amazing and complex...
How loud is too loud? We measure sound in decibels (dB), and it’s commonly known that noise over 85 dB can damage our hearing when listened to for a long time. The louder the noise is, the less time we can listen to it without damaging our hearing. For example,...
Apple recently released what they’re calling “the world’s first all-in-one hearing health experience”--hearing test, active noise cancelling and “clinical-grade Hearing Aid capability”–utilizing their AirPods Pro 2. As promised, here’s my experience as a person with...
While I was hoping to immediately follow up on last month's article about Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 OTC hearing aid ‘upgrade’, alas, the iOS update came too late (October 28th) for me to put them to the test (literally and figuratively) and write about my experience....
Today, October 28, 2024, Apple released its iOS 18.1 software, which includes the long-anticipated hearing health features. This release has been a long time coming, as we have closely monitored the progress, announcements, and initial rumors over the past nine...
About 6 months ago, I wrote a piece about the ‘long rumored’ entrance of Apple into the over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid space. As of September 12th, we can now say with certainty that it’s no longer a rumor. The FDA officially approved Apple's new "Hearing Aid”...
Patients routinely ask me when they should consider upgrading from their current hearing devices. The answer isn't necessarily straight forward, in large part because of cost considerations. Investing in critical hearing healthcare, which is what folks are actually...
Audiology checks all of my personality/career/profession/interest boxes. Foremost, it allows me to care for others and make a real difference in their lives. It involves counseling/teaching, cutting edge technology and medicine. I work with my hands & brain...
We often get questions from our patients about whether tinnitus can be caused by external forces like stress. Ever felt your ears ringing from stress and wondered what was going on? While the most common way to acquire tinnitus symptoms is through hearing loss...