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The problem is that patients don't always know what is supposed to sound right, especially if they've been going without hearing aids for years. If you take a
by biggieshellz 7y ago
The problem is that patients don't always know what is supposed to sound right, especially if they've been going without hearing aids for years. If you take a person with a high-frequency loss and correct it to the normal range, they'll often complain that everything sounds sharp, or there are too many noises and it's hard to concentrate. Only after wearing them for a while does their brain learn to filter out the normal environmental sounds and adjust to the "new normal".
- solatic 7y agoWhich is precisely why home self-programming is so important. It allows patients to go back and re-program as often as they feel necessary, and such additional tunings would not cost the patient the cost of additional audiologist visits. I guess the question is whether ignorance is bliss. If a patient self-sets a hearing aid to a level that the patient thinks is great, but isn't theoretically as great as it could be, is that actually a problem?