July 20, 2017 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Hearing tests are performed by a specialist to provide an evaluation of your hearing, but what exactly can you expect to learn from the hearing test? […]
April 13, 2017 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Change in your hearing might indicate something much bigger is affecting your health. Consider four ways getting a hearing test could save your life. […]
January 26, 2017 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
If you’re similar to most, you’ve likely been putting off your hearing test. You might even have had others propose that you get one but you keep coming up with excuses not to go. If that’s the case, we’re going to try to persuade you to begin the new year by finally getting that hearing […]
August 25, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
The hearing exam really is the easy part. The challenging part is accepting your hearing loss and actually setting up the hearing test in the first place. You have most likely heard the stats by now: 48 million people in the United States have hearing loss but only a minor fraction actually do something about […]
March 3, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Congratulations on taking the preliminary step toward healthier hearing by scheduling your hearing assessment. You’re already ahead of the game, as many people delay getting a hearing test for years—in some instances decades. But now that you’ve arranged your hearing test, you’ll want to be certain that you’re well prepared for the visit, especially if […]
October 15, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
In the United States, about 37.5 million adults have some degree of hearing loss. Yet according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), only 20 percent of those who could benefit from hearing aids actually use them. That suggests that millions of Americans who could enhance their life with better hearing choose not to do […]
June 25, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Most of the time, people are unaware that they have hearing loss. It forms so slowly that it’s commonly undetectable, and on top of that, the majority of family doctors do not consistently test for hearing loss at the yearly physical exam. Bearing in mind these two facts, it’s no surprise that most people first […]
April 19, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test You’ve just concluded your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now coming into the room and presents you with a graph, like the one above, except that it has all of these icons, colors, and lines. This is intended to explain to you the exact, mathematically […]
April 12, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
We don’t need to explain to you the signs and symptoms of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a very different type of challenge: persuading someone you care about to get their hearing assessed and treated. But just how are you supposed to get through to someone who denies there […]
