Beltone Hearing Aids And Accessories | The Communication Blog

Monday, November 29, 2010

Beltone Hearing Aids And Accessories

By Owen Jones


Do you know how your ears work? I am afraid to say that not many people do, which may be why so many people, especially young people, risk their hearing so often. The problem with hearing is that, people rarely lose it over night. Typically, prolonged exposure to loud noise will not have a discernable effect until several years or even several decades afterwards.

The outer ear is there only there to feed sound waves into the inner ear. This is the reason why people cup their hands to their ears when they cannot hear something well - in effect, your hand is increasing the size of your outer ear, meaning that it collects more sound waves. These sound waves are then passed down your ear canal to your eardrum.

The sound waves vibrate tiny bones, which in turn causes fluid in the cochlear to move about. This triggers thousands of tiny hairs which create electrical charges which are collected up by nerve endings. These are passed on to your brain which interprets them as sound. As you can suppose, there are lots of things that can go wrong in this process, which could impair your hearing.

Doctors and scientists have known this and more for decades and Beltone, which started up in 1940, have been using this information to create hearing aids for the benefit of the deaf and hard of hearing. They now make some of the most advanced hearing aids on the market including the latest digital devices.

Beltone make a broad range of hearing aids or listening systems. Some of their devices are for the mildly deaf, may be those people who have trouble zeroing in on one sound in a multitude of sounds to the profoundly deaf. There are so many degrees of deafness, which have come about for so many reasons, that there have to be plenty of choices.

Beltone has all the bases covered. Hearing aids are obviously extremely useful, but they are not always that comfortable to go to bed with, especially the behind-the-ear-devices (BTE), which can cause a problem if you are hoping to be woken up by an alarm clock. Similarly, wake up calls over the telephone are pretty useless.

Beltone has the solution in a portable alarm clock which not only has a strobe light to notify the light sleeper, but also incorporates a vibrator that can be put under your pillow so that even heavy sleepers will be woken up on time.

Batteries are an important part of any hearing aid and Beltone supply cut-rate replacement batteries for hearing aids. They can be bought in packets of four or boxes of forty-two either in local malls or from their web site.

If you are on the look out for hearing aid supplies, you obviously have to take advice from the experts like your doctor and maybe the local society for the deaf, but Beltone has such a long history and good track record that it should be on any short list when you go looking for deaf aids or deaf aids equipment and accessories.




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