One of Queensland Vestibular + Cochlear’s patients has been the first patient to receive a Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) implant at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Mackay. The patient and Queensland Vestibular audiologists worked with ENT specialist Dr Luke Reid who performed the surgery on 18 February to implant the bone anchor. “This is …
First Implant Surgery in Mackay for BAHA Implant Technology Read More »
You can treat severe to profound hearing losses successfully with hearing aids. However, there are people who have such damage to their hearing that speech nerves are unable to fire even when a hearing aid provides them with adequate amplification. And if your nerves aren’t firing then you won’t understand speech. Generally speaking, if you …
Cochlear have launched the Nucleus 7 sound processor, the next generation sound processor for our Cochlear implant patients. This has been in the works for some time and the big deal about this processor is that Cochlear worked hand in hand with Apple to create seamless integration with your iPhone. The big ticks include: The …
Channel 7 News recently ran a story on the Antinitus skin patch from Sweden that makes claims to relieve symptoms of tinnitus. Do they work?
When it comes to bone conduction hearing aids, implant manufacturer MED-EL have brought a new sticky solution to market.
Kanso® is a deceptively small off-the-ear sound processor. Its so small and comfortable they say that youll forget you are wearing it.
Early identification of Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAPD) is vital to ensure your child’s learning abilities are not impaired in the long-term. The National Acoustic Laboratories state that CAPD could affect up to 5% of children. This could be giving them auditory fatigue when trying to concentrate in the classroom. Common signs of a potential Central …
Many people don’t realise that as we get older it is not just our hearing which declines but because of the hearing decline our ability to tell which direction sounds come from, or localisation as it is known, is also affected.
Lyric myths dispelled I have written several times in the past about the Lyric, the disposable hearing aid that sits deep into the ear canal just millimetres away from the ear drum for months at a time. Two years on we are now one of the top Lyric providers in the country, and I have personally fitted …
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One of the hardest environments to be able to maintain a conversation is a noisy restaurant or cafe. It doesn’t matter if it’s untreated hearing loss, an auditory processing deficit, an older hearing aids, or with completely normal hearing – hearing with other noise around is difficult. But there are some simple strategies you can …
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As part of my day to day work I look at online research on hearing and subsequent rehabilitation treatment. Consequently my browser analyses my search data and I am bombarded with a lot of hearing aid company ads popping up, and in a worrying trend some of these are for online sales. Here is my …
Queensland Vestibular’s early experiences with the Phonak Lyric invisible hearing aid I first heard about Lyric at an American Academy of Audiology conference several years ago. Like most clinicians my initial thoughts were sceptical. How could it be healthy for a device to sit in your ear canal for months at a time? Surely going …
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