by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: We just visited our ENT for my son’s biannual hearing test. My husband asked the doctor if he could do another cat scan. He told the doctor we wanted to make sure whether my son had LVAS or not because we want to fly. My doctor told us […]
Not All Medical People Know About Cochlear Implants
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: I had an incident yesterday trying to give blood. I was stunned when I was not allowed to give blood because I had marked (under previous surgeries) that I had a cochlear implant (CI). The head screener (an RN) argued with me that I didn’t know what I […]
Folic Acid May Prevent Age-Related Hearing Loss—Let’s Get Real!
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Supplements of folic acid may prevent age-related hearing loss in older men and women, says a new double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial from the Netherlands. (as reported in Health Truth Revealed, January 3, 2007.) Sounds wonderful and pretty authoritative, doesn’t it? Now we will be able to prevent hearing loss as we […]
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)—Changing How You Think About Your Tinnitus
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. If your tinnitus is bothering you, maybe you should try Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). CBT is just a fancy way of saying that how you think about something reflects how you will react physically and emotionally to it. Thousands of years ago, wise King Solomon wrote, “As a man thinks in […]
Difference Between T-Links and Music Links
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man asked: What is the difference between the Music Links and the T-links other than the T-links have a built-in microphone and use a different sized plug? The big difference is in how the plug is wired. The Music Links are wired exactly the same way stereo earbuds/earphones are wired—one […]
Lisa Evans-Smith, Au.D.—Audiologist Extraordinaire
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Recently as I was surfing the web, I came across an audiological web site that blew my socks right off. This audiological practice provides an impressive array of services to hard of hearing people, but what really arrested my attention was that this particular audiology practice had an “Ototoxicity Monitoring Program,” […]