Is it Time to Upgrade Your Hearing Aids?
People in San Rafael with hearing aids are already taking the most important step they can in treating their hearing impairment. For the majority of patients with hearing loss, these devices help restore the ability to communicate and promise significant quality of life improvements. Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever; eventually, you’ll need to upgrade your hearing…
Stand Up to Noise Pollution
Bay Area residents occasionally contend with hazy skies obscuring those spectacular views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. As unsightly as this may be, not all pollution is so clearly visible. Noise pollution is a growing problem not only in the San Francisco Bay Area, but throughout the world. And it’s one we…
How to Choose a Hearing Aid
If you’ve been diagnosed with hearing loss in Walnut Creek, you are no doubt trying to adjust to a completely brand-new way of life. Fortunately, most cases of hearing loss can be treated quite effectively with hearing aids. With a large variety of choices available, narrowing down your selection may feel intimidating. Don’t worry –…
Can Hearing Aids Help Treat Tinnitus?
If you’re on a BART train with nine other people, first of all, congratulations: this clearly isn’t rush hour! Look to your left, and now to your right. According to the law of averages, two of you are experiencing tinnitus, a ringing in the ears. If you wear hearing aids – and as long as…
How to Prepare for Holiday Guests with Hearing Loss
Now that Halloween has come and gone, it’s time to start thinking about the holiday season. For many Bay Area residents, this means hosting Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. This can be a very rewarding experience (minus cleaning up after the feast), but when entertaining guests with hearing loss, a little extra prep work is needed….
Why You Need a Hearing Aid Consultation
If you’ve been diagnosed with hearing loss in San Rafael, hearing aids are likely to be the solution your audiologist recommends. But selecting a pair isn’t a simple process; there are many factors to consider. In honor of National Audiology Awareness Month, celebrated every October, we’re going to talk about the importance of hearing aid…
How Do Hearing Aids Work?
For most people living in San Rafael, hearing aids are about as mysterious as Bigfoot, UFOs, and the correct name for that sliver of plastic on the tips of your shoelaces. While we can’t tell you whether aliens or Sasquatch are real, we can let you know that the plastic tip is called an aglet….
What Are the Most Common Hearing Tests?
One out of every five Bay Area residents will experience hearing loss at some point in their lives. There is a wide range of possible causes, from noisy crowds at 49ers games to rock ‘n roll concerts at Shoreline Amphitheater and even – gasp! – advancing age. Regardless of the factors that have contributed to…
Hearing Aid Technology
Bay Area residents newly diagnosed with hearing loss are likely to have some misconceptions about hearing aids, especially if they don’t know anybody who wears one. These devices are no longer big and bulky like the ones from a generation ago, and in fact, advances in technology have led to significantly smaller instruments with a…
Types of Hearing Tests
About 20 percent of Bay Area residents are experiencing hearing loss. Many aren’t even aware of the problem; hearing loss develops gradually, and we often adjust to it over time as we grow used to hearing less. The volume on the TV creeps up little by little until one day a loved one tells us…