Sounding Board / hearing loss (4)

I had already been struggling with my hearing loss for years when I became a first year college student. Now, however, I was away from home and in danger of …

What is a hearing aid? A hearing aid is a small externally-worn device used to collect sounds with microphones and make those sounds louder through a small speaker in the …

As a bilateral Esteem® patient, I have experienced hassle-free hearing for almost 9 years. It has been an amazing journey and one that I would never change. Not for anything …

As a proud member of the hearing loss community, a hearing aid user for nearly three decades, and a happy bilateral Esteem® recipient, I am intimately familiar with the journey …

You may not know they exist or what they are, but active middle ear implants – or AMEIs as they are sometimes referred to – have created new treatment options …

Before Jill McAlister and Marcie Pratt went skydiving together, they had never met. But, the two shared more in common than they would have believed. They both have congenital hearing …

Hearing loss often creeps up on us slowly over time. We start by turning the volume up on the TV, the phone and the radio. Over time it can progress …

When people find out I have the Esteem, their reaction is usually one of two things: amazement and a desire to learn more or skepticism and no aspiration to understand …

What are the clinical trial results for the Esteem? In order to gain license from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commercially market and sell the Esteem, Envoy Medical …

Emotional and Psychological Costs of Untreated Hearing Loss Many people assume the main effect of hearing loss is difficulty perceiving spoken communication, environmental sounds and music. But there are secondary …