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Showing posts with label audiogram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label audiogram. Show all posts

August 03, 2021

Free and Accurate Online Hearing Test

During the summer of 2020 when the world shut down due to the COVID pandemic, medical office visits also dropped off precipitously with only emergency cases being seen in person. However, for more mundane medical issues like a clogged ear or hearing loss complaints, telemedicine visits were utilized instead. However, it is very difficult to evaluate and treat an ear issue via telemedicine without being able to look in the ear or obtain a hearing test. In order to obtain some of this necessary e…
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September 22, 2013

Accurate Hearing Testing Using an iPhone

There is an iPhone app called " EarTrumpet " that apparently can provide accurate hearing testing... almost as good as a professionally administered test ( conventional audiometry ) and certainly as good (if not better) than medical-quality automated testing machines (ie Otogram ). Created with the assistance of the ENT department at the University of California, Irvine... According to one study , this iPhone application provided results as good as one administered by an audiol…
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July 14, 2012

What is Asymmetric Nerve Hearing Loss

Given my last blog article regarding an ENT who got sued for not doing an MRI after audiogram showing an asymmetric hearing loss, the question that should be on everybody's mind is what IS asymmetric nerve hearing loss on a hearing test ? I am sad to report that there is no clear consensus on what is asymmetric nerve hearing loss. First of all, at its most basic definition, asymmetric nerve hearing loss is when hearing is worse in one ear when compared with the opposite ear due to n…
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August 23, 2009

Online Hearing Test (Audio)

Phonak, one of the major manufacturers of high end hearing aids, has developed a screening hearing test you can do online in the comfort of your home. Take the test here . If you do poorly on this exam, please see your local ENT in order to get a more reliable hearing test and see what options you have to improve your hearing (or keep what hearing you have left).
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