Inspiring Story of a Deaf NFL Player
Click on this link to see an inspiring story about a deaf football player in the NFL. Derek Coleman who plays for the Seattle Seahawks has traveled a tough road but he sure has made it to the top. My kids asked to see this commercial again and again. They loved the story! <a href=”http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/deaf-seahawks-derrick-coleman-commercial/#sthash.dBdafplp.gbpl”…
Happy Anniversary Valley Audiology!
This is Valley Audiology’s 30th year in business. My mother, Julie Fulford, started our practice in 1984 after working in various professional settings. She wanted to be able to provide hearing aids with the appropriate follow up care – something that she wasn’t always able to do in other more rushed settings. In the beginning,…
Happy Holidays!
This is a busy time of the year as we are wrapping business up for 2013. Don’t forget to come in and spend those last few HSA or flexible spending dollars on batteries or supplies. We will have short hours on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. We’ll be closed on December 25, 26…
Hearing Protection
We see people on a daily basis who have hearing loss caused by exposure to loud noise. In fact, loud noise is the one of the most common causes of hearing loss. We attended a seminar at the California Academy of Audiology convention regarding industrial hearing loss prevention programs. In the workplace there are established…
California Telephone Access Program
Many of you already have amplified telephones from the Cal- ifornia Telephone Access Program (CTAP). As excited as we are to promote this excellent program, there are always some of our patients who have never heard of it Everyone in the state of Califor- nia with a phone line in their home pays a few…
Hearing Aid Maintenance Appointment
Our fall newsletter will be mailed out next week. Look inside for articles on binaural hearing (meaning hearing from both ears), power hearing aids and our annual battery sale. We are offering appointments with Debbie to go over the care and maintenance of your hearing aids. If you have a family member helping you…
Do You Need More Power in Your Hearing Aids?
Technology is an amazing thing! Hearing aids are get- ting smaller and smaller and sometimes our patients can hardly see them well enough to change the battery. I’m not sure if the small size is a feature or problem. Our patients who have needed stronger hearing aids in the past have always been steered toward…
Cerumen Management
Cerumen is a fancy word for earwax. Earwax becomes an issue when you wear hearing aids because it can get into the aid causing it to malfunction or the wax can block the ear canal and the amplified sound will leak out of your ear causing feedback. There is nothing we know of that you…
OTC Pain Relievers and Hearing Loss
New research is showing a link between acetaminophen and ibuprofen use and hearing loss. For years we’ve known that high doses of aspirin can cause hearing loss and tinnitus. Often the loss is temporary and comes back once the aspirin is stopped. Now the studies show that men and women who use acetaminophen and ibuprofen…
Hearing with Two Ears
Patients who have seen us for a hearing aid evaluation have heard many of the reasons we give for binaural amplification (a fancy way of saying wearing hearing aids in both ears). At our recent California Academy of Audiology convention, there was a speaker who gave us further insight into the need to be hearing…