Hearing and Tinnitus Care

25/07/2025

Amazing how this pattern strikes your eardrum, travels along a series of bones and fluid, and is reproduced faithfully in the brain.

If you’re not awed by how we hear, it’s only because you haven’t thought about it!

22/07/2025

Latest tinnitus support group info. If you’d like to join a free group, getting information from a tinnitus-specialised audiologist among others, please feel free to join…

12/07/2025

Did you know some audiologists are trained in balance too? Now you do! The hearing and balance organs are closely linked in your skull, and this is why vertigo and hearing loss are both affected in certain medical conditions.

Balance organs can be exercised and strengthened. This reduces your risk of falls and can keep you confident and able.

Here are a few exercises recommended by NHS vestibular/physio staff. All abilities can do them.

If you’re like me, (middle aged and far too busy to take on anything new!) you can simply stand on one leg, then the other, while you’re boiling the kettle. Fingers lightly on the countertop so you don’t topple. Build up the number of seconds you stay on one leg over time.

Once you’ve mastered that, you can try doing it with your eyes closed* - but not until you’re secure with them open.

Balance is one of those things you take for granted, and once it’s deteriorated it can put you off doing things that keep you happy and healthy. So keep up your ability, and your body (with its unbroken bones) and posture will thank you.

Full set:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/balance-exercises/

*this is more difficult because we use balance organs, visual and proprioceptive feedback all at once to maintain balance

Find out how to do these balance exercises, which you can do at home to help improve your health and mobility.

09/07/2025

Dr James Jackson is today filming in our home for a new documentary on . Still under wraps, in development, without a name; we’ll let you know when it gets picked up by a distributor and goes public!

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a documentary on this subject which affects so many people so deeply. Excited that James is a part of the work!

01/07/2025

Part 2 of is out now. In this post we’re talking about the different assessment appointments Dinah has been having, and the operation date has been set for the cochlear implant!

We’re following Dinah, one of my patients, in real time as she goes through the process of getting a Cochlear Implant (CI). This part details the assessment process and approval criteria for implantation.

19/06/2025

At Hearing and Tinnitus Care, I offer several options for tinnitus sufferers:

1) Hearing Assessment and Diagnosis of Tinnitus
2) Work/Study needs assessment, and help with obtaining special adjustments for tinnitus sufferers
3) a crash course, called Active Habituation, to relieve distress and help you manage tinnitus on your own, hear it less and be less distressed by it
4) Full tinnitus package, including the Active Habituation, plus devices to give you controlled sound “therapy” (noise-maker) along with minimum amplification. Suited to those with no or mild hearing loss, who are not yet in need of hearing aids
5) Consultant psychologist intervention in-house
6) Referral to outside agencies/experts for evidence-based tinnitus interventions
7) Access to the latest research studies, for those who want to give back to the community and be part of the cure
8)a free support group on Facebook, moderated by an experienced senior audiologist

Hearing and Tinnitus Care is simply peerless when it comes to the commitment offered to tinnitus sufferers. This is highly individual care, from those with expertise in the field, here in Brighouse, West Yorkshire (and online if you’re further afield).

Get in touch to see how we can help. Click on my profile for contact details.

19/06/2025

Can listening to “White Noise” - or any sort of noise, actually help tinnitus? Here’s a deep dive into this topic.

Bottom line. White noise can be a tool to distract your ears/brain for minutes/hours. If you want to feel better in the long term, you eit

19/06/2025

https://www.hearingandtinnitus.co.uk/post/will-white-noise-hearing-aids-help-my-tinnitus

Bottom line. White noise can be a tool to distract your ears/brain for minutes/hours. If you want to feel better in the long term, you eit

19/06/2025

No! They did it again! Widex Allure will NOT have frequency lowering scheduled for introduction any time soon.

I apologise to everyone I have passed on incorrect information to in the last week. I can only say I did so in good faith. This is the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night, but rest assured anyone who purchases something on the basis of incorrect information will be reimbursed.

Update here:

https://www.hearingandtinnitus.co.uk/post/widex-allure-they-did-what

17/06/2025

The rare condition of MEM , described by one of my support group members as “people speaking through a kazoo”.

That fluttering or rhythmic vibration sound you’re hearing fits the criteria for tinnitus, and would be named Middle Ear Myoclonus (MEM or

16/06/2025

Slow news day. Let me remind you then, that small companies can really do what they say they do. We have complete control over everything from quality to customer service to waste disposal.

I turn customers’ paper confidential waste (after cross cut shredding), packaging, and the coffee grinds from my office pot, into fabulous compost. I also actively request my manufacturers to reduce needless waste.

I recycle customers’ batteries for them if they can’t get out.

The families of customers who pass away sometimes ask for advice on how to reuse aids and electronics I supply, and while this is a sad situation I can offer advice on how to sell the aids legitimately (not though me). Aids I receive back are donated to developing countries if still useable, or recycled via the council.

If you’re reading this and thinking that I’m a virtue-signaller, it does not bother me in the slightest. I’ll keep on doing it because it makes me happy to not be part of the problems in the world. If you’re thinking you’d like to work with someone who shares your values, please remember me for your next hearing test.

Big companies greenwash and create plastic waste, I deliver attentive, personal service - and then make raspberries and strawberries with my compost.

11/06/2025

Update: Widex Allure will be getting frequency lowering “later this year”. Hold the line until then, because I think when it’s ready it’s going to be a great pair of aids!

https://www.hearingandtinnitus.co.uk/post/widex-allure-they-did-what