Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I was surprised by this article on Healio reporting that orthopedic surgeons risk noise-induced hearing loss in the operating room, but then smiled to myself as I realized I shouldn’t have been surprised. Orthopedic surgeons use sterilized versions of professional grade power tools
Photo credit: Michael Burrows by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in the Chattanooga Pulse emphasizes the fact that earbud use can cause noise-induced hearing loss. To those of us who follow--and sometimes contribute to--the literature on personal audio system use causing noise-induced hearing loss, this is nothing new. Unfortunately, it still
Photo credit: Soulful Pizza by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition does not endorse products or manufacturers and has no commercial or other relationships with any company or other organization, helping guarantee our independence. So I write somewhat hesitantly about The New York Times Wirecutter’s article about the three best wireless
Photo credit: Tanya Gupta from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My noise colleague and coauthor Jan Mayes has an insightful article in the current issue of Tinnitus Today, the quarterly magazine of the American Tinnitus Association. As Jan’s lead sentence incisively states, “[i]f our ears bled from noise exposure, protecting hearing
Photo credit: Sound On from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ Wirecutter published an article about headphones used in schools. Wirecutter evaluates products independently but does get commissions if products mentioned are purchased through links in its articles. The article makes several important points about noise and hearing,
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on Entrepreneur.com discusses Baltimore audiologist Dr. Emily Taylor. Dr. Taylor became a Tik-Tok star with her catchy nom de plume, Dr Ear Wax, and uses Tik-Tok to teach the importance of auditory health. Not only is she an audiologist,
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition One usually doesn’t think of occupational hearing loss as a problem for professionals, just for factory workers or miners or heavy equipment operators, but it is a problem for dentists. The high-frequency whine of turbines used to power drills and polishing
Photo credit: vxla licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This post on the Digital Trends site discusses how to protect yourself from noise-induced hearing loss. As the article notes, NIHL is insidious in its onset, and predictable in its course. I disagree with one statement, however. Namely, the author
Age-related hearing loss is almost certainly noise induced hearing loss says a recent report, confirming Dr. Daniel fFnk’s conclusion after reviewing the literature in 2017.
Chemical earmuffs to prevent hearing loss? Dr. Daniel Fink asks why so much effort is spent developing drugs to prevent hearing loss after noise exposure when avoiding loud noise is easier.
