Tinnitus Habituation Crash Course
This information is taken from the page on my website devoted to my tinnitus Consultation service. A long read, but it gives great...
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Can Private Hearing Aids Help Me?
What many of my customers want to know, is can private hearing aids help them? What are the reasons why, in the UK where we have the...
Habituating to Tinnitus
The start of my relationship with my tinnitus patients is goal setting, where I explain that the only goal of tinnitus work is...
Hearing Loss Rewires Your Brain
I watched a fascinating presentation by the ever-popular Dr James Jackson this week (my husband) on untreated hearing loss, detailing the...
Tinnitus & How We Process Sound
I’m fresh out of a tinnitus consultation today, and have been teaching a client about how sounds are processed by the brain. We did an...
Why does hearing loss occur mostly at 3000-6000Hz?
Good question! 4000Hz is where we typically look for and see noise related damage. This is because the ear canal naturally amplifies this...
Does using hearing aids make you dependent on them?
A question I answered on Quora today… Does using hearing aids make you dependent on them? Specifically, let's say that you are x% deaf...
Technology Levels AKA What Will Hearing Aids Do For Me
Writing this for a friend who needs to advise his parents, but it’s good general knowledge for all. Strap yourselves in, it’s going to...
Are you getting the most out of your hearing aids?
Busy audiologists can sometimes neglect to tell you about the features of your hearing aids, but since we are all paying the price of new...
COVID 19 & Hearing Loss
COVID 19 side effects include hearing loss and tinnitus. Here’s what you need to know if you find yourself impacted by this.
“What is the best hearing aid to reduce tinnitus?”
Here’s a question I answered on Quora today, hope you find it useful. Follow my blog (on my website) for more of this sort of thing!...
Tinnitus Support Group - Brighouse / Calderdale / Kirklees
I am in the research stage of starting a tinnitus support / self-help group based in Brighouse. Currently the nearest one is run by my...
Sudden Hearing Loss
This is quite a topical post, as it still appears that not all GP’s are seeing patients face to face - even when there is a clinical need....
How close are we to hearing aids that completely restore high-frequency hearing loss?
[This is a question I received on Quora, and I share my answer below] Good question! There are so many factors involved. If you still...
Single Sided Deafness & CROS Aids
People with Single Sided Deafness (SSD) often have a dead ear - which is an unattractive term but unfortunately is what we call it when...
Introduction to Wear and Tear Type Hearing Loss
The most common type of hearing loss is sensorineural (approximately 90% of hearing loss cases) and is experienced after the age of 55....
Dynamic range compression aka the adverts are too loud!
I know, fun right? How can this help me? So, dynamic range compression is where you stop amplifying all input levels at the same ratio. ...
COVID 19 Impact
The COVID 19 pandemic has had a huge impact on hearing aid uptake, despite most audiologists continuing to work completing essential...
Lenire Tinnitus Treatment
Having read through the website and the background study for Lenire, I remain highly unconvinced. Lenire is based on “bimodal...
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