by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. If you are new to wearing hearing aids, you need to learn the best ways to adapt to wearing your new hearing aids. Otherwise you may dump your new hearing aids in a dresser drawer, give up and conclude hearing aids don’t work—not to mention wasting all those thousands of dollars […]
Hiccups, Fluttering Tinnitus and Your Eardrums
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Pretty well everyone gets hiccups from time to time. This is normal. Usually the hiccups go away in a few minutes. However, sometimes the hiccups persist for hours or days or weeks, and rarely, months or years. When you hiccup, your diaphragm and nearby muscles contract, causing you to […]
What to Do When Your TV Doesn’t Have RCA Audio Output Jacks and You Want to Hook a Loop Amplifier to It
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man explained, I have a new Vizio flat screen TV, but it doesn’t have any audio output jacks, nor even an earphone jack. It only has an ‘optical’ output called SPDIF, whatever that is. I don’t have a cable box, satellite box or anything with audio out jacks—just the cable […]
Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer Causes Increased Hearing Loss
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A news item titled “Hearing Loss Common Following Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer” revealed the shocking fact that people having radiation to their heads or necks were 682% more likely to experience severe hearing loss as compared to those in the control group. (1) Thus if you want to […]
The Hearing Fix—Beneficial or Hoax?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man asked, I’ve come across a website that’s called The Hearing Fix. They say they have capsules (a herbal mix and so forth) that works really well at restoring hearing, money back guarantee, backed by university research. Do you know of such? Is such correct? You are not the first […]
Top Ten Nasty Noisy Toys for 2010 That Can Damage Hearing
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Loud sounds can cause hearing loss. This is no secret. So why do the toy manufacturers insist on making toys that produce ear-damaging levels of sound? Maybe more to the point, why do parents/grandparents buy such noisy toys for their children? Young children have especially sensitive ears and short arms. Thus, […]