by Calvert Hearing Care | Jul 29, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
No, the “speech banana” is not a super fruit that improves hearing or is a reference to that classic vaudeville comic skit that goes, “Speak up…I can’t hear you…I’ve got a banana in my ear.” The “speech banana” is a...
by Calvert Hearing Care | Jul 5, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
One thing you can look forward to if you have children is that at some point they are going to ask you to buy them some headphones to use with their computers, games and music players. No big shock there. After all, headphones commonly offer a better experience when...
by Calvert Hearing Care | Jun 28, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
Acute external otitis is an infection of the outer ear canal – the portion outside your eardrum. Virtually all people recognize it by its common name – swimmer’s ear. The popular name “swimmer’s ear” derives from the fact that the...
by Calvert Hearing Care | Jun 7, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
If you have some type of hearing loss, do you ever find that listening to people talk is work, and that you need to try really hard to understand what people say? You are not alone. The feeling that listening and understanding is demanding work is common among people...
by Calvert Hearing Care | May 28, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
Many of the conditions that cause hearing problems for our patients cannot be reversed which is quite frustrating for our hearing specialists. One of the main causes of hearing loss, for example, is damage to the tiny hair cells in our inner ears that vibrate in...
by Calvert Hearing Care | May 10, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
Hearing loss may take many different forms and occur as the result of a number of causes, and to fully understand them you need to understand the way in which we hear. Along with the eardrum and the ear canal, the outer ear is the section of the ear on the outside of...
