Recently, I met Seth Stetson from HealthU who is associated with the Alaska Regional Hospital. In this interview, we chatted all things hearing healthcare. I like to take every opportunity to spread the word about healthy hearing and what you can do if your hearing is...
Until recently, the term “hearing aid” was universal and covered a lot of products. It also meant that a certain amount of regulation was needed to call them that. Over the past couple of years, that definition has become murky. Many companies have started producing...
Preventing hearing loss is the best way to keep your hearing healthy. Any damage caused now will stay with you for the rest of your life and will only get worse if not addressed. Thankfully, there are ways to prevent this and ensure your hearing stays in tip-top...
As audiologists, we will not be able to improve in our provision of hearing healthcare if we don't always stay up to date on hearing research, which is why this latest bit of news from MIT about hearing loss reversal is exciting.Here’s What MIT’s Press Release SaysThe...
With so many people in Alaska suffering from a hearing loss, it’s astounding to know that many will never seek help to treat it. Many think that hearing loss only affects their ears. Turning up the volume or asking people to speak louder is only a temporary solution....
We’ve been watching and waiting for the release of the Jabra Enhance Plus hearing device to see if it is as good as the hype, and now that we’ve seen it in use, we think it’s a great starting point for people on their hearing journey. Last year, President Biden gave...
The time has finally arrived. We can officially announce the winner of our Hear for the Holidays giveaway. After reading through all of the heartfelt nominations, we were truly touched by all of your stories and kind words. The past couple of years have been...
Dr. Emily E McMahan is awarded Platinum for hearing care by the 2021 Best of Alaska Awards. Remarkably, she has held this position since she opened her clinic. There were over 100 categories, including entertainment, coffee spot, and hearing care. The organization,...
At Alaska Hearing & Tinnitus Center (AHTC), our number one priority is to ensure our patients' health and well-being; our community during the global crisis must continue to follow our easy 5 stage guide to protect yourself and the most vulnerable people in the...
Emily E McMahan, owner of Alaska Hearing and Tinnitus Center, was awarded the Special Recognition For Enterprise on October 3. Although Emily didn’t take top prize of Entrepreneur of the Yea, she was given special recognition for her hard work and dedication that...
‘I don’t think anyone understands how it affects your life because you’re living with it yourself but anybody outside that doesn’t suffer from it, I don't think they understand what you’re actually going through, that you have a constant ringing in your head all the time, and some days it can be really bad, it’s very hard to relax, very hard to enjoy life sometimes and it can make you very upset.’ ‘Just trying to get on with everyday life was very difficult’ ‘You couldn’t deal with silence because there was no silence, it was always there’ ‘Before the trial started, I’d say, really on a scale of 1 to 10 it was past 10, and in a bad way, and then when I done the trial after the 6 weeks I found that the tolerance for me was definitely down to around a 3’ ‘It was that good, it made that much of an impact on my life and I’m just very grateful that I got a chance to do the trial’
- Niall
‘After about a month, I noticed that it started working, and funny enough I noticed it when I didn’t use it. I had to go to the dentist and got some treatment on my teeth – I wasn’t able to use the device so I had to pause it for about 5 days and then within 5 days I just noticed that my tinnitus increase and when I started using it again I started paying attention to how it was dropping to the lower levels. At the worst my tinnitus was about a 7 or 8 out of ten, and after using Lenire for around a year, it has dropped to like 1 or 2. It’s very handy for me to use Lenire during my work as I can just plug away and just do the treatment while I’m working. Back when the tinnitus was really bad, I started questioning my music industry job, and I stopped going to the gigs, music events and I started thinking about that I no longer will be able to participate in any events, but now I’m able to book tickets again. If anyone in the music industry and have suffering from tinnitus I would definitely recommend the Lenire treatment as it is something that helped me a lot
- Erlandas
‘My hope with the device was to try and reduce the level of tinnitus back to a level where I was comfortable, like prior to when I had the ear infection and from using the device that’s where I am now, I’m back to a situation where my tinnitus is much less prominent, much less distracting. The tinnitus did affect my interest in music because you say to yourself what’s the point if I’m not hearing properly. I can now go back to doing things that I wasn’t able to do over the past few years – writing and recording music. Going on the results I have I would recommend it.’
- Damian