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March 31, 2006
Good news for U.P. residents with hearing loss
New technology is changing the way U.P. Audiologists treat hearing loss. The 'Vivatone Totally Open Canal' device delivers sound electronically through a wire while the speaker floats in the ear canal. This eliminates the plugged up feeling that normal hearing aids can cause.
The device has been out for four years now, but the Audiology Associates of Marquette are the first to offer the hearing aid in the U.P. Audiologist Victoria Dinkin says the device will be a good fit with ears here in the U.P.
"Anybody who has a mild to serve hearing loss, especially one that has a high frequency loss, which is most cases up here in the U.P.," she explained. "People who work in the mines or had noise exposure or younger people who have listened to rock music all these years."
For more information on the Vivatone device, contact the Dinkin sisters at Audiologist Associates in the Upper Peninsula Medical Center.
Source: http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=4707384&nav=81AX
Posted by 4HL on March 31, 2006 8:23 AM
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