by Dr. Evonne Serpa | Mar 5, 2023 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips
Tinnitus is a condition where an individual hears sounds in their ears or head that are not caused by an external source. The sound can vary from person to person and can be described as ringing, buzzing, hissing, whistling, or clicking. 10-15% of Americans [about 50...
by Dr. Evonne Serpa | Jun 3, 2022 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips, Uncategorized
In a recent poll conducted by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Millennials to Baby Boomers agree that society is too noisy.1 Employees in noisy workplaces are twice as likely to suffer hearing loss but according to the CDC’s February 2017 Morbidity...
by Dr. Evonne Serpa | May 9, 2022 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips
Lately I’ve found myself talking to patients about how EXHAUSTING living with hearing loss can be. Patients don’t often realize how much they compensate with various strategies to ‘get by’ and make it through a day… As an audiologist, I see firsthand the ways in which...
by Dr. Evonne Serpa | Jan 2, 2022 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips, Uncategorized
COVID-19 and Tinnitus – Are They Related? If you experience ringing or buzzing in one or both ears, you may have tinnitus. In blog post, I discuss tinnitus and anxiety. The purpose of this article is to investigate research that links COVID-19 to tinnitus....
by Dr. Evonne Serpa | Apr 10, 2021 | Blog
It’s hard to believe the novel coronavirus began sweeping the nation one year ago. In the blink of an eye the entire world was turned upside down; shelves went bare in grocery stores, businesses closed, jobs were lost, and social distancing became the “new normal.”...
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