Quick – what image comes to mind when you think of a hearing aid? Something like this, right? BTE (Behind the ear) hearing aids offered by Starkey. That’s not surprising. It’s the protypical shape of Behind-The-Ear (BTE) style hearing aids, and what you’ll most likely see if...
If you’ve been to your doctor lately, you can probably attest to today’s fact: hearing tests are rarely part of a typical exam. Doctors, today, are increasingly seeing more patients, appointment times are shrinking, and unless hearing issues are the reason for your appointment, your...
Invisible. Wireless. Powerful. When it comes to wanting the world’s smallest, most comfortable hearing aids, practitioners and patients everywhere turn to SoundLens Synergy from Starkey Hearing Technologies — available in both wireless and non-wireless options. As the world leader in custom products, Starkey continues to provide the...
We’ve written before about the Better Hearing Institute’s survey of Americans with hearing loss. And we’ve published some of the survey results in previous blog posts. Here’s another — and just one of many positive hearing aid reviews that wearers provide. “Most people who currently wear...
In the past, hearing aids processed music and speech sounds similarly, often distorting the clarity and quality of the music for the listener in an effort to make speech more clear. Patients would complain music sounded “muted, distant, fuzzy, dull, muddy, thin, steely [or] compressed.” Why...
Unlike vision, which people typically treat as soon as it starts failing them, treating hearing loss gets pushed off — some studies suggest up to a dozen years or so. We get it. You can’t do basic things like drive and read when your vision is...
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the older we get, the more likely it is we’ll lose our hearing. It’s just one by-product of living a long, fulfilling life (along with fading eyesight, weakened muscles, wisdom, experience…). That doesn’t lessen the shock of this statistic by the...
WebMD®, one of the most trusted and recommended sites on the internet, recently conducted a survey of hearing aid purchasers and healthcare professionals who regularly diagnose hearing loss as part of their practice. The purpose? To see what hearing aid wearers thought of their purchase,...