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About Cochlear Implants

Prohieran — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:31:48 +0000

More than 23,000 adults and 15,500 children have received cochlear implants, according to the Food and Drug Administration. These devices can help adults who have lost most or even all of their hearing later in life to learn to associate the signal provided by an implant with sounds they remember. The technology can provide recipients with the ability to understand speech by listening through the implant and without requiring any visual clues such as sign language or lip reading. Children are also able to acquire speech, language and social skills by receiving a cochlear implant along with intensive therapy to learn how to use it. Implanting a cochlear device earlier in a child’s development rather than later can help provide critical learning during key development periods.

The implant requires a surgical procedure and then therapy to learn or relearn the sense of hearing with the device, and not everyone will have the same level of success. While cochlear implants have been considered extremely successful, advancements in technology and continued research is yielding better ways for even greater hearing efficiency and to help with expanded kinds of hearing loss.

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders is supporting research to improve the benefits provided by cochlear implants. According to their website, it may be possible to use a shortened electrode array, inserted into a portion of the cochlea, for individuals whose hearing loss is limited to higher frequencies. Other studies are currently exploring ways to make an implant convey sounds of speech more clearly. In addition, research is being conducted to determine potential benefits of pairing a cochlear implant in one ear with another cochlear implant or a hearing aid in the other ear.

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Real Ear Digital Speech Mapping Lets You See Sounds You Are Missing

Prohieran — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:58:48 +0000

New hearing technologies continue to revolutionize the hearing abilities for those who are facing increasing hearing loss due to aging or illness. One of these innovative approaches is Live Speech Mapping for hearing aid fittings — sometimes touted as an MRI of your aid’s setting.

Mapping uses the voices of a patient’s family member or friend or even of the clinician to gain real ear measurements. The mapping process places “real speech” with its continuously fluctuating amplitude and spectral characters in the patient’s preferred listening range. The Live Speech Map is displayed to the patient on a digital speech imaging computer through easily-understood graphics so that patients can actually see sounds that they are missing and be presented with a clear visual sense of hearing loss and aided benefits relating to actual speech.

Once patients view what they are missing, they’ll be able to listen through a digital hearing aid and tune their personal hearing aid until it restores the missing speech patterns and tones. So, not only will you hear the difference a hearing aid makes with your speech, you’ll be able to see the sounds being restored visually as well.

Audiologists have reported that Live Speech Mapping provides patients with an overall great sense of confidence in their hearing aid and in their hearing rehabilitation approach. In other words, when patients can actually see their hearing loss and then see how it is resolved, they are more apt to believe in the benefit of an aid, and as a result, use it as intended.

In addition, they also report a reduction in a reduction of follow-up visits required, lower practice costs, and lower costs for the patient because the Audiologist is able to “get it right the first time.”

Many audiologists offer Live Speech Mapping or Digital Speech Imaging processes. Ask whether it is done when considering a hearing wellness exam. Another way to promote overall hearing wellness is by taking the all-natural supplement, PROHIERAN.

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Resveratrol! Part 2

Prohieran — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:20:54 +0000

Eighteen years ago, 60 Minutes first examined the so-called French paradox, which suggested that the French – despite a high fat diet and high consumption of wine – had a remarkably low incidence of heart disease compared with Americans. Most researchers agreed that there was something in the wine that offered protection, and a few years later, even the highly cautious federal dietary guidelines say that moderate consumption of red wine can be beneficial.

As 60 Minutes reported in January, scientists across the country have identified a substance in red wine called resveratrol that they believe might do more than just protect the heart, but could in very high concentrations significantly extend life by preventing a number of age related illnesses.

If they’re right, we all may soon be taking a pill that could give us an extra decade or two of healthy old age.

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Celebrities With Hearing Loss

Prohieran — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:32:30 +0000

Actor Lou Ferrigno, the “Hulk” actor from the Incredible Hulk television series, has been in the news a lot lately because he was working out with pop star Michael Jackson before his untimely death last week. But long before he was a celebrity or hung out with celebrities, he was a champion for not letting hearing loss affect his life or success in body-building and in acting. Ferrigno suffered a 60-to-75 percent hearing loss at a very young age due to an infection. At age 4, he was fitted with his very first set of hearing aids. He has said that if he hadnít lost his hearing, he wouldn’t be where he is now because it forced him to maximize his potential and to become better than the average person to succeed.

Other celebrities are also coming forward with the need for hearing aids, hearing loss, and also to carry the message of protecting their overall hearing wellness. Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs serves as national spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of hearing loss, while countless other professional athletes, actors such as Marlee Matlin, entertainers, and executives are also thriving in spite of having a hearing impairment. The fact that you donít read much about their hearing loss serves as a testament of their not letting their disability in any way define who they are.

While persons with hearing impairments may come from assorted walks of life and have different talents and interests as adults, most have championed efforts to protect hearing in both children and adults. Their message includes getting hearing wellness checks regularly, to wear hearing protection as needed to protect health, and to maintain overall body fitness and hearing wellness as much as possible.

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