Hearing Success! classes start again
Our next round of classes that we’ve titled “Hearing Success!” started today at both our Concord and Walnut Creek locations. We know that just putting hearing aids on doesn’t necessarily mean that our patients hear everything they want to hear. Some situations remain very challenging and some people are very difficult to understand. We created…
Battery Update
Several states in the U.S. have regulations against using mercury in batteries. Traditional hearing aid batteries have a small amount of mercury and manufacturers are changing their products to comply with the new regulations. When the mercury is removed from the batteries, the power level drops a little bit. For this reason, it is really…
Moisture Causes Many Hearing Aid Failures
If you have ever experienced fuzzy or distorted sound, weakness, static, intermittency, short battery life, or even all-out failure of your hearing aids, and you’ve con- firmed that the batteries are good, there’s a good chance that the culprit is either moisture or earwax. In fact, manufacturers report that as many as one-half of the…
May is Better Hearing Month
Hearing loss is a serious condition that should not be ignored. Substantial research connects hearing loss with depression, diabetes, dementia and cardiovascular disease. Some research shows causation and some correlation, but all conditions have been linked to hearing loss. If you are reading this blog, you already know about the effects of hearing loss on…
Made for iPhone Hearing Aids
Apple products have been taking over the market since the turn of this century. It is no surprise that we are now hearing about Made for iPhone hearing aids. Oticon has released their iPhone app that works with their new Streamer Pro 1.2. The app is free to download from the app store. Search for…
Time to celebrate!
This Thursday, May 1st from 3:00 – 5:00 we are opening the doors of our Concord office for a party. We are celebrating 30 years of business with a get together for a patients and the community. Come meet our audiologists and see how we do business. We will have a representative from the California…
Expanded Hours in Walnut Creek
Traditionally, Concord has been our “main” location while Walnut Creek has been our “satellite” location. As the years have gone by, our patient base in Walnut Creek has been expanding. Now in addition to Tuesday/Thursday, our office in Walnut Creek will be open on Wednesdays. Debbie Lockary, our hearing aid specialist, will be available all…
Great Hearing Aid Technology!
I’ve had great success lately fitting the new hearing aids by Oticon. When I try these aids on new patients they don’t even notice the amplification. This is a far cry from the old speech I used to give about getting used to the “harsh,” and “microphone-y” sounds of last year’s aids. Not only does…
A History of Hearing Aids: Look How Far We’ve Come
Fitting hearing aids today is a joy. The flexibility of the programming, the feedback control and all the automatic processing make them better than they have ever been. Just how did we get here? The first electronic hearing aids were produced in the 1800’s using technology invented by Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Carbon…
Announcing new Hearing Success! Classes
In ordering to maximize our patients’ success with hearing aids, Valley Audiology will be offering a series of classes called Hearing Success! Our objective is educating our patients and their loved ones on hearing, hearing loss, communication issues and hearing aid maintenance. The classes are the third Thursday of the month in both the Walnut…