CNN Health recently published an article that references a study with some shocking insights. The study reveals that individuals who experience social isolation have a 32 percent higher risk of premature death than those who are not socially isolated. The study also...
Every day, we receive calls from people in the Anchorage and Eagle Creek communities who are concerned about hearing loss. Sometimes they have questions about their own hearing loss, and other times they’re worried about a family member or friend. Hearing loss can be...
If the time has come where you or a loved one is considering which treatment is best to manage a hearing loss, then this article will give you all the answers you need in order to make the best choice. With so many marketing messages from different providers promising...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just granted de novo approval to Lenire®, a non-invasive device developed by Neuromod Devices Ltd. to treat tinnitus. This is the first bimodal neuromodulation device of its kind to be approved by the FDA for tinnitus...
CNN Health recently published an article that shared the findings of a systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by JAMA Neurology. The question that this in-depth study was looking to answer was: Do hearing aids and cochlear implants decrease the risk of...
If you’ve been struggling to understand or interpret what people say, or you’ve always said you’re not a great listener, it could be that you have an auditory processing disorder rather than a hearing loss. Auditory processing disorder (APD) is not talked about as...
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...
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....
‘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