May 16th, 2012
Surprisingly, lots of people experience tinnitus in their lifetime, and the persistent noise heard can make it difficult to hear and affect your ability to concentrate. If you yourself are experiencing the common symptoms associated with tinnitus, then don’t worry because we at The Hearing Healthcare Centre are here to offer you professional tinnitus advice on how you can go about getting effective treatment, proven to decrease the effects of tinnitus.
We appreciate the hindrance that tinnitus can place on your standard of living, and therefore we offer the latest treatments which include the Tinnitus PhaseOut Systems. This system has proven very successful for many individuals, with the treatment focused on addressing the tinnitus tone, it works on the methods of noise cancellation. To ensure that you get the most from the innovative new piece of equipment, it is essential that you contact a professional, like us at The Hearing Healthcare Centre, who work alongside the system and yourself to ensure the best results.
While we have various methods designed to reduce the impact of tinnitus, we believe that prevention is definitely important. Therefore, if you work in a noisy environment, it’s essential that you get your hearing checked in order to spot any early warning signs. Furthermore, with the right equipment (earplugs) you could prevent tinnitus from occurring in the first place.
We offer a range of unique services, both to help those with moderate to severe hearing loss and those who suffer from tinnitus. Therefore, if you need professional tinnitus advice or guidance on how to improve your hearing, please get in touch with us via our website or call us directly and we’ll happily book you in to discuss this with you in person. Your hearing is very important and as such, if you suspect a problem with it, you should seek professional aid as a matter of urgency.
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April 17th, 2012
Tinnitus can be seemingly inescapable with the constant ringing in your ears affecting almost every aspect of your life, however there are ways to deal with this ailment, and one of them is a tinnitus treatment that is also known as Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT). Here at the Hearing Healthcare Centre we have been supplying hearing products and helping those that suffer from hearing problems such as tinnitus for over 50 years, so we have all it takes to help you with what is causing distress – read on to find out exactly how Tinnitus Retraining Therapy can reduce it.
Your Tinnitus Retraining Therapy will begin with a consultation with one of our hearing experts to discover how your tinnitus is affecting you personally – with an eye to drawing up a personalised therapy plan that can help; whether tinnitus is affecting you by noise or due to tone.
Your consultant will then start a course of treatment that is completely attuned to your own hearing, with the therapy itself working on the methods of noise cancellation and sound enrichment to put an end to your negative reaction to the ‘tinnitus sound’. This alters your perception of it and eventually reduces the distress it is causing you in your daily life.
While tinnitus cannot be cured, this style of tinnitus treatment has been proven to be highly effective in many varying cases, seeing the patient gain a positive standard of life which can further be enriched with various disability aids and our aftercare support which will work with you to ensure that the negative perception of the tinnitus sound doesn’t come back to trouble you in the future. For further information on Tinnitus Retraining Therapy and the other services we offer here at the Hearing Healthcare Centre, please contact 01223 360 700.
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March 16th, 2012
Some tinnitus treatments can prove to be stressful not only on your ears, but also on your body and mind – leaving you with a serious need to relax and calm back down. The use of Widex Zen tones that are supplied by us here at The Hearing Healthcare Centre will prove to be a highly effective and beneficial tinnitus treatment in providing this comfort from the strain of tinnitus. Read on to find out the many benefits of using this style of therapy.
As you will know, no matter how many disability aids are used, tinnitus can never be fully cured but it can be managed. Using the calming relief of Widex Zen therapy will make your tinnitus become less noticeable, as the random, chime like tones that are played into your ears will help with the natural perception of sound – utilising what is known as fractal technology.
Some off-the-shelf tinnitus therapies will not work for everyone for the simple fact that one person’s tinnitus will be different from the next. Here at Hearing Healthcare Centre, our team of fully qualified hearing professionals who all offer a quality, personal service can adjust your Zen program according to your own specific preferences of pitch, tempo and volume – in addition to providing you and your hearing aid with different programs to suit various situations you may be in.
Highly regarded tinnitus treatment expert Robert Sweetow has even said that the use of Widex Zen tones to help sufferers of tinnitus has gained an 85% success rate for those that were previously no-hopers – providing a truly remarkable course of therapy that should be tested by anyone who is experiencing troublesome tinnitus. To find out more about the Widex Zen programs we offer and how else we can help, please get in touch by calling us on 01223 360 700.
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February 15th, 2012
Have you begun to notice changes in the quality of your hearing? Perhaps you found yourself struggling to follow the conversation at a recent party, or it has become increasingly difficult to clearly hear what your colleagues are discussing during an important meeting. The Hearing Healthcare Centre understand that it can be quite concerning when your hearing begins to deteriorate, and that you may be reluctant to seek help or consider hearing aids Stamford. This is why we have developed our service to offer the honest, friendly advice you need when you are worried about your hearing health.
The first thing we would recommend if you have any concerns about your hearing is to arrange a consultation with our highly-qualified team. Using a variety of techniques, we can establish the extent of your hearing loss, and gain an understanding of which style of hearing aid would be best for your condition. We will also discuss your lifestyle and other requirements to ensure that we help you to select hearing aids Stamford which work for you.
We are a leading stockist of hearing aids from a range of the leading manufacturers, which gives you the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of products for different budgets and requirements. Each of the hearing aids Stamford we provide offers a combination of the very latest technology to help you enjoy an improvement in hearing quality, alongside clever designs which can subtly enhance your life without making you feel self-conscious. Just like disability aids, they have been designed to help without hindering your lifestyle or confidence.
Only an experienced and highly-qualified team can advise you as to whether you will require hearing aids Stamford, which is why it is important to seek expert advice from The Hearing Healthcare Centre when you have concerns about your hearing. Don’t suffer in silence: let our expert team help when you are struggling to hear.
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January 17th, 2012
Complete hearing loss is not the only problem that can cause people distress and discomfort. Even a partial loss of hearing can have a dramatic effect on your quality of life. It can leave you unable to understand the conversations of friends and family. This can cause people to feel self-conscious, particularly during public or social occasions, or in a meeting at work, but there is a solution. LACE auditory training from the Hearing Healthcare Centre is just one part of our comprehensive hearing care Peterborough service, and could truly transform your life.
If you are an adult who is suffering from the beginnings of hearing loss, LACE, or Listening and Communication Enhancement, could benefit you. Do you have difficulty understanding speech, particularly in noisy surroundings or where fast speakers or competing voices make it harder to comprehend what is being said? You do not need to accept this as an inevitable side-effect of hearing loss, as LACE can provide a solution. LACE is designed to retrain your brain, as although you hear with your ears, you listen with your brain, and by learning some simple tricks you could potentially improve your comprehension by more than 40%.
This practical training programme features twenty half-hour interactive sessions which you can complete at home using your DVD player or computer. This allows you to go over the training at your own pace, and gives you the ability to recap any aspect of the programme if required. In the same way as you would use physiotherapy to retrain your body to adapt following an injury or illness, LACE training can be used to teach your brain the skills it needs to overcome hearing loss. Just imagine being able to join a conversation with friends or colleagues without struggling to hear.
Why not visit the team of hearing care Peterborough specialists at the Hearing Healthcare Centre for a consultation? Whilst we regularly provide hearing aids for our clients, not all hearing loss is severe enough to require this intervention. In these cases, LACE can provide a simple yet effective way to combat hearing problems.
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December 9th, 2011
Over time, hearing can become impaired, limiting what you can hear and the circumstances within which you can hear. Whilst in the majority of instances this is due to an inability to hear and is easily fixed with a hearing aid, it is surprising how many people actually struggle to interpret what they are hearing. To combat this, the auditory professionals here at The Hearing Healthcare Centre provide a LACE training program to accompany your new investment in one of the many hearing aids Peterborough we currently have available.
LACE training, otherwise known as Listening and Communication Enhancement is a course which focuses upon the cognitive process behind hearing. It is a course which specifically trains your brain how to listen, helping people who forget or lose their ability to interpret the words they are listening to, to restore their sense of hearing.
This is a problem which many people are faced with, so to help you regain your hearing we not only provide you with the appropriate hearing aid, we also provide LACE auditory training programs. This is relatively easy to do, and with a DVD, they can be completed in the comfort of your own home.
To give you a glimpse into the various aspects which auditory training looks at, we have given a brief overview below.
The course comes in a DVD format, and is in twenty easy-to-digest half hour sessions. The main focus of the program is to train the cognitive processes to interpret what is being said. Just like any form of physiotherapy associated with regaining your body’s normal strength and movements, with regular training and practice sessions, you will quickly see an improvement in your ability to interact with those around you and interpret what is being said.
Whilst the program specifically focuses upon listening, it’s a natural superstition to assume that the program trains you to pinpoint specific noises whilst in a noisy environment.
If you would like further information regarding our hearing aids Peterborough or the LACE training program, be sure to get in touch with us at The Hearing Healthcare Centre. To do so, call us on 01733 392 910.
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December 2nd, 2011
Welcome to the Winter 2011 issue of SoundWaves – the Hearing Healthcare Centre quarterly newsletter.
We hope you find the information in this newslsetter interesting and useful. We always appreciate your views and comments.
It is with regret that we have to inform our Peterborough clients that Norma, our practice manager, has
had to leave us due to family circumstances. We wish her and all her family well. My wife Conny is stepping
in to fill the post in her absence.
We have been keeping very busy over the last few months and have found the new Widex Clear range and the Signature range to be exceptionally successful. Both companies have produced instruments which are very well designed and with additional devices for TV, phone and remote control units which are easy to use and work extremely well. Widex have also just produced a cordless phone which needs no setting up with their hearing instruments but communicates wirelessly to both aids without the need to hold the earpiece to the ear. For any normal hearing user it can be used like any ordinary phone. For more information please contact the Cambridge office on 01223 360700.
t the latter part of September, I was invited to the 60th anniversary of Snetterton with my MG “Emma”, where the Aston Martin Owners Club and Ferrari Owners Club were racing on the new 300 track. These two clubs were the first to race on this track when it was first used as an alternative to Firsfield. I was asked to take Emma for a parade lap and so invited Jack Seers, (a friend and colleague of Archie Scott Brown) to ride shotgun with me. He had never been in the car during Archie’s ownership so was
delighted to join me. We only had the safety car and a full race Ford Cosworth for company so after they took off we were able to give the car a good bit of exercise around the new track which was a great thrill for us both.
Nature has equipped all mammals with two equally functioning ears as a primary means of survival, both for locating food and for hearing approaching danger. For humans, two-eared hearing is just as necessary to survive in our modern noisy societies; to hear in traffic, in crowds and to understand speech. Hearing properly with two ears means the difference between simply listening to noise and hearing clearly with understanding.
The hearing centre of the brain relies on two independent ‘microphones’- the ears. If only one ear is functioning properly, there will be difficulty in understanding speech in noisy environments and in locating the direction from which the sound is coming. Scientific research as well as individual experience, confirms that most people with a hearing loss in both ears, can benefit greatly from wearing binaural (stereophonic) hearing instruments i.e. a hearing instrument for each ear that responds to sound correction. The major benefits are:-
Better understanding in noisy places – By wearing two hearing instruments rather than just one, selective listening is more easily achieved. This means your brain can focus on the conversation you want to hear and reduce the amount of unwanted background noise more easily.
Better identification of sound direction – Sound direction identification is called ‘localisation’ and is dependent upon two equally functioning ears. The effect can be dramatic if the sound is a warning signal such as an approaching car.
Clearer reception of softly-spoken words – When only one hearing instrument is worn, volume has to be at a higher level to compensate and this exaggerates interfering background noise and can distort these sounds.
Better sound quality – By wearing an instrument in each ear you increase your hearing distance range and this greater range provides a better sense of sound balance and quality.
Smoother tone quality – Amplification from two hearing instruments requires less volume than with one alone. This results in less distortion and better reproduction of amplified sound.
Better feeling of balance – Hearing with both ears results in a feeling of balanced sound reception also known as the “stereo effect”. Hearing with one ear often creates an unusual feeling of having a blocked or ‘dead’ ear.
Less tiring – Many binaural hearing instrument wearers report that listening to conversations is both less tiring and stressful because a lower volume is required to hear clearly, compared to hearing with one ear.
Two hearing instruments are not always suitable, but when they are, you can be sure that your hearing aid audiologist has your best hearing interest in mind.
Tinnitus is a ringing or buzzing in one or both ears and although many people have experienced this condition temporarily after being in a noisy environment or whilst suffering from a head cold, for over 7 million people in the UK, it never goes away.
Tinnitus has been and still is the object of extensive research in terms of establishing effective treatment methods or management strategies. Tinnitus is for many a distressing noise leading to increased stress and affected quality of life.
As stress is one of the highest exacerbating factors involved with tinnitus, stress reduction is a vital element in effective tinnitus management. To this end and inspired by the relaxing effect of certain types of music, Widex, a Danish hearing instrument manufacturing company, developed ‘Zen’ programs to help tinnitus sufferers.
Based on what is known as fractal technology which ensures that the music is predictable without repeating itself, Zen is a unique music program available in some Widex hearing instruments. Zen plays random, chime-like tones that can be used for relaxation and for making tinnitus less noticeable.
An experiment was conducted in 2009 at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to determine the effectiveness of fractal tones, contained within this hearing instrument, with tinnitus patients. The experiment concluded that fractal tones corrected for hearing loss are effective in relaxing the tinnitus sufferer, as well as reducing the annoyance of tinnitus.
To find out more information on this technology, simply call us on 01733 392910.
Quintus Pedius was a Roman painter and the first deaf person in recorded history known by name. He is the first recorded deaf painter and his schooling is the first recorded education of a deaf child.
Long gone are the days when a hearing aid was a large, obvious, embarrassing flesh-coloured prosthesis with poor performance. Just like computers and mobile telephones from a decade ago, modern hearing aids are now available as much smaller devices and they
perform in unthinkable ways compared to ten years ago. The best type of hearing assistance depends on the level of hearing loss, lifestyle and size of ear canal. However, they are all significantly less noticeable than trying to cope unaided with hearing difficulties.
Here’s how to make your batteries last longer.
Zinc-air batteries should also be given a little time to “charge up” before they can be used. After removing the coloured tab, the battery will need air to work and it takes about a minute before the air has reacted to the zinc in the battery cell.
Do not throw batteries away once they have been used. They pollute the environment. Instead, hand them in to us where they will be sent to be recycled.
LACE (Listening and Communication Enhancement) is an interactive software training program that enhances your ability to communicate by maximizing listening skills and communication strategies.
Who can use LACE?
LACE is intended for adult patients, with or without hearing loss who have difficulty understanding speech in challenging listening environments where there are noisy surroundings, fast talkers or competing voices.
We hear with our ears but we listen with our brain. LACE retrains the brain and can improve comprehension by more than 40% in difficult situations. Contact us for further details.
On 7th & 8th October 2011, AIHHP – The Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals held its Autumn conference in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
After a very full and intensive day spent listening to three extremely interesting keynote presentations and then further in-depth workshops to increase delegates knowledge and keep up to date with the very latest developments in the profession, delegates and manufacturer representatives were then entertained with the 2011 Golden Lobes Awards & Gala dinner.
This is an annual event that allows the association’s members to vote for a range of products, innovative concepts and stand-out individuals that have made a real difference to both audiologists and end-users of hearing assistive systems.
The awards ceremony has now become an event not to be missed and the nominations submitted for each category are of an ever-increasing standard of excellence. For an individual or company to receive an AIHHP ‘Golden Lobe’ is judged to be a high point in their service to this
profession.
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November 28th, 2011
Many thanks for sending the Widex Phone-Dex.
It is an amazing instrument and has transformed my use of the telephone. For the first time in a decade or more I can hear on the telephone with clarity. Quite extraordinary! Many thanks.
I should have written before this to report that the aids themselves are working well. They have not restored my hearing to normal but, as you said, aids cannot replace hearing loss although they can make the best of what remains. This they do and enable me to lead a reasonably normal life.
Widex deserve an enormous vote of thanks for the thoughtful way in which they develop their products.
Many thanks to you again.
R. C. Ingram
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November 15th, 2011
American author, Helen Keller once said: “The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus, the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man”. Here at The Hearing Healthcare Centre we to believe that hearing is important, which is why we provide bespoke hearing care Cambridge at an affordable price.
For over 50 years our team of hearing specialists have been providing the best hearing care possible for the residents of Cambridge and as such this has seen us provide our customers with some of the best hearing disability aids available, including devices manufactured by Phonax, Widex and Oticon.
However, during our time within the industry we also appreciate and understand that everyone’s hearing capabilities are different and that what each person hears is unique. It’s for this reason that we offer an unbeatable bespoke hearing care service, which includes the use of our unique and specially adapted “Signature” hearing instrument.
Based upon the experience, skills and understanding that we have within the industry, we’ve been able to create the Signature hearing instrument which allows us to produce the perfect hearing aid for you, your needs and your requirements. Using this instrument we’re able to personalise the sound which you’re able to hear, making it your signature sound.
Using mainly open-fitting technology the Signature hearing aid is discreet, can be used with an additional range of wireless accessories and unlike other hearing aids it doesn’t make a whistling sound when used close to other technology.
If you’d like more information surrounding how our bespoke hearing care Cambridge can enable you to have a better quality of hearing, or if you’d like to have your hearing testing because you’re concerned about how much or little you can hear, then contact us today on 01223 360700.
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