treatment plan<\/a> to their unique needs and experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\nArizona Hearing Specialists has recently expanded its services to include a sound sensitivity management clinic headed by Dr. Adriana Sanchez and Dr. Evan Davies. They both have a passion for working with sound sensitivity patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sound Sensitivity Facts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Hyperacusis<\/strong> is a type of reduced tolerance to sound. People with hyperacusis often find ordinary noises too loud, while loud noises can cause discomfort and pain. Known causes of hyperacusis are exposure to loud noise and aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMisophonia<\/strong> is a complicated sensory disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or stimuli associated with such sounds. These stimuli, known as \u201ctriggers,\u201d are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological and behavioral responses that are not seen in most other people. Misophonia is a disability. Common triggers include eating sounds (such as chewing or swallowing), nasal sounds (such as sniffing or breathing) and throat sounds (like throat-clearing). Misophonia triggers do not need to be oral or nasal sounds or even sounds made by humans. Nature sounds (for example, birds chirping) and other nonhuman sounds (such as a clock ticking) are well-documented misophonia triggers. So are nonoral\/nasal sounds made by humans (like dribbling a basketball). Some people with misophonia are even bothered by visual stimuli.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDiplacusis<\/strong>, or \u201cdouble hearing,\u201d is a form of hearing loss that causes a person\u2019s two ears to hear the same sound so differently it creates a disturbing two-sound experience. Some patients hear sounds at a different pitch than the other (more common), or patients have one ear that hears sounds faster than the other, creating an echo.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPhonophobia<\/strong> is a persistent, abnormal and unwarranted fear of sound. Often, these are normal environmental sounds that cannot, under any circumstance, be damaging to hearing. It may be related to, caused by or confused with hyperacusis or misophonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUND SENSITIVITY BASICS What Is Sound Sensitivity? Sound sensitivity encompasses a variety of different symptoms in which a patient has a decreased tolerance to sounds, loud sounds and specific environmental sounds. It may occur with or without tinnitus. For some patients, these persistent symptoms significantly impact their quality of life. Side effects can include fatigue,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"service_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8193\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service_tags?post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}