Maybe it's because I know she's an audiologist but she annunciates everything beautifully and speaks with an even sound level. Like she clearly works with the hearing impared to naturally say every sound in a word to be heard as easily as possible
@@uncleurda8101 No no. He means the lady doesn’t sound like English is her fist language and other people who have the same first language as her are able to understand her more easily.
I’m so glad she talked about how hearing aids are more complicated than just a mic and speaker, as someone who has had two of them since I’ve been four I’ve had to explain that so many times (also having automatic Bluetooth ears is super cool)
My doctor also told me that our ears are self-cleaning. But when I pressured her for some off-the-record advice, she finally conceded that if I really.. REALLY.. felt the need to clean inside my ear canal, I could go ahead and use my elbows. I just adore my doctor!
About earplugs at concerts - there are a variety of frequency-balanced earplugs that protect your hearing while preserving the sound quality of the music (Eargasm and Hearos are a couple of examples). I HIGHLY recommend them!
20-30 years ago there was nothing but full blocks. There's no excuse these days to not protect your ears with something that can actually increase one's enjoyment of the music.
As someone who has severe tinnitus, I listen to these videos to help not focus on it -- and this one was perfect! So well done and I wish I had such an awesome audiologist.
The way I was hyped to to this!! I was born with hearing loss, so I had to see MANY audiologist in my life so far. People like her made my life so much easier. Her talking about hearing aids and clearing up misconceptions or even spreading knowledge made me smile ear to ear.
@@Dr_Earwax 🥶 But I don't. I really don't appreciate your profession pushing cochlear implants onto my people, treating Deafness as a disease rather than a language and a community.
@@guyman1570 no one should push anything on any one so I am sorry to hear you have felt like that in the past. I definitely recognize the Deaf community and know that hearing loss is not considered a disability for everyone. Thank you for sharing your perspective!
I am someone who has suffered with tinnitus and when I went to an audiologist about it, it turned out I had an additional hearing problem I wasn’t aware of and the subsequent hearing aids I got do indeed silence the ringing. It’s wonderful!
I'm gonna have to bring that up with my GP when I go in for my physical, see if I can get that covered by insurance. I've been putting up with this crap for almost twenty years, the sound of silence would be *amazing* after so long
As someone who has been to many loud concerts and been in infantry, combat, and is now nearing 60, you should wear hearing protection whenever you can, same as sun protection for skin and sun glasses for your eyes.
Unless you're going to the beach or are working long hours under the sun, there really isn't any need to use sunscreen. I see people spraying that stuff anytime they go out under the open sky for like 5 minutes nowadays. Way too much marketing being pushed by the cosmetic companies.
@@kvassman_ as someone who used to perform in concerts very frequently, wear hearing protection. the professionals do it for a reason, and if you enjoy going to concerts you should wear it too. When I was performing, I did not wear it. I am 22 and am going to have nearly complete hearing loss by my late 40's to early 50's because of it.
As a hearing care professional, I totally agree with everything that has been said here. All information is briefly explained and is in line with current audiological practice. It was a pure pleasure to watch this video. Well done! Hope to see more! :)
As one too, not 100% she showed the wrong bones at the beginning. She was talking about the ossicular chain and how they’re the smallest bones in the body (TRUE) but she showed the semicircular ducts. The rest seems very accurate to my knowledge
@@Metamine0 it’s actually not a matter of how you listen to music, it’s how LOUD you listen to it. Playing music at a decent level with earbuds isn’t any worse than on speakera
I feel more this kind of smile feels trained/fake/forced and it's a bit weird. But that's cultural I guess as in the US there isn't a difference between being friendly, professional or polite. So people are forced to smile so they don't come off as "rude".
She is such an excellent communicator. Her annunciation and clarity in speech is phenomenal. Not to mention she has an infectious smile and a face that is easy on the eyes.
Loved this as someone who previously studied to be an audiologist in the past. Also just love all of the "expert answers" videos on this channel. Thanks WIRED and Dr. Emily!
The way that she speaks is A MA Z I N G, like I cannot believe how well she speaks, so clearly and so well spoken! I was absolutely mesmerised by all of her responses. I loved her beyond words. Nothing but the best for this doctor! Loved her!
As someone who has had hearing loss since age 13 (now age 45), I really appreciate this video! I usually have to watch everything with captions because my hearing loss mainly affects speech. Like I can hear people speaking but I can't make out the words most of the time, hence the need for closed captioning. But this was so well enunciated I didn't even need the captions so I'm very grateful for that! Made me feel normal for once.
The dad joke ("tenth of a bel') is actually correct. The unit was named after Alexander Graham Bell, and the "tenth" part of it proved to be the most useful for a scale of intensity.
The trouble is, a Bell or deci Bell is not used by itself to measure anything, as it's just a ratio of 2 values, i.e. a relative unit of measurement. One needs to also specify what the 2 values measure, e.g. dBW, dBm, dBA, dBSP etc.
7:30 i had my left ear completely blocked and ear wax softening drops didn't help too. when I went to the doc she just got a big syringe with water and cleared it. It felt uncomfortable but not painful but it felt sooooo good after she cleaned it.
My ears are not blocked but just a little congested and I think I'm going to try the wax drops. Wish me luck! (I went to the doctor twice a few years ago where they unblocked my ear with the water syringe too, which worked well for me especially because my ear wasn't sensitive/hurting beforehand.)
There are eardrops that both moisten the wax and make the wax run out of your ear, but vaccuuming your ear always works too. It's just a bit uncomfortable the first time.
She is absolutely gorgeous and so personable. I'd love to see her answer more questions in future videos!match. I'd love it if she used the props a bit more to explain some of these parts of the ear in a more visual way.
My genius mother once told me confidently that earwax has zero purpose. When I was a child she used to make me lay on my side, and she'd hold my head down while she poured rubbing alcohol in my ears and shoved q-tips in there. This caused problems for me like double hearing, and everything sounding weird and metallic, which as a music lover was rather traumatic. She never connected that it was because of her.
This lady is clearly very knowledgeable in her field. Sound and frequency is so important to us as humans, and we’ve definitely lost a lot of that throughout the millennia.
My dad used to complain of dizziness after standing- but not immediately after. It would take a few minutes- like he would stand up, walk off- and then he would become dizzy and a little sick to his stomach. They tried everything, couldn't figure out what was going on. Finally, one day I noticed that when he stood up, he had to try to make his left foot move several times before it actually moved. I asked him about it, and he said that sometimes it felt like "his foot was glued to the floor." I put that in quotes because it's a very important phrase- when I googled it exactly as he said it- Parkinson's disease. It explained that sometimes patients would say this very thing- exactly what he said- that they felt like their foot was glued to the floor. So, I told dad- he didn't believe me. I told my mom, she didn't believe me, told my brothers- no one would hear it. About 5 years later he died of Parkinson's disease- he diagnosed about 3 years before he died and about 2 years after I had tried to tell everyone in the family. That said- it wouldn't have mattered- there isn't anything they can do if you're 86 and have severe osteoporosis and silicosis of the lungs. If you're young and don't have other issues, and you have money- like Micheal J. Fox, you can find help. If you're 86, already sick, and broke- it's a death sentence and the doctors literally turn you away. They told us they had no further treatments or medications to give him, not to bring him back. Either take him to a hospice or have the hospice nurses come out to the house.
This has confused me for some time. I learn of a person who had burst ear drums yet they’re not deaf or even apparently significantly hearing impaired. Makes sense now.
My family has congenital hearing loss. Starts in our 30’s & gets worse as time goes. I remember my dad getting his hearing aids & being startled badly by how loud my brother & I had had to speak so he could hear us. I’ve had hearing aids for about 13 yrs now. I’ve had constant tinnitus for so long, I can tune it out; the hearing aids don’t block it but if I’m listening to something, my brain tunes the ringing out. For some reason, though, my mother -despite living with my almost deaf dad, knowing his almost deaf father & totally deaf aunt- still thinks I can hear her when she talks behind me or if she whispers. Why do you whisper, m’am? I can’t hear you and Dad can’t hear you at all anyway, just speak normally!
This answered a problem I'm been wondering about for a while, my ability to hear with background noise is trash and I've wondered why, or if it's just my perspective. Excellent to have this explained so clearly!
I'm gonna be honest I literally had no idea an audiologist was a thing or maybe I just never thought there was a word for the study of hearing. Anyway after this video I have alot more appreciation for ears/hearing and the study of it. Actually quite interesting!
When I was a regular in the hospitals audiology department, I did three tests. A pressure test, the beep test and a vocal test where a word would be played and you repeat the word back
Wearing earplugs to concerts will not ruin your concert experience, all it does is make it easier to hear the singer over the instruments and the background noise. Plus your ears don't ring for 3 days after you go to the rock concert.
3 days if you're lucky. Many people have it for life. Venues, in my opinion, are criminally destroying the people's hearing. I just cannot understand how can they operate volumes around 100dB up to 140dB and there is no disclaimer?? Many people don't know about the risks and get permanent tinnitus just by going to one event
An earplug designed for loud music is even better. I use Vibes but there are others. And the music sounds better and clearer. As a musician I can attest to this
That one about how the hearing test works was particularly interesting to me. As I've gotten older I've explicitly had a harder time hearing things over background noise, which yeah, apparently means I'm experiencing hearing loss. Crap.
Well, it happens to all of us, so don't get too down on yourself. My speech pathology prof told me that the younger generations are trending towards experiencing hearing loss increasingly early in life.
@@10sDPR It's the ear buds they wear, many of them don't have volume governors so they crank up the volume to physiologically damaging levels because they truly don't realize the danger. Next thing you know, they've got hearing loss and/or tinnitus.
Had a teacher who always said not to put anything in your ear larger than your elbow. I took it very literally and tried to figure out how I’d be able to get my elbow even close to going into my ear.
Back in high school, one of my classmates was placed into a psych facility because they said he had auditory hallucinations. It turned out it was nothing more than tinnitus all along. The entire event was traumatic for him. They kept increasing his medication dosage and the sounds wouldn’t go away. Finally it was an audiologist who diagnosed him correctly.
8:00 I actually wore foam earplugs to a concert recently and it made hearing and actually listening to the music easier and more enjoyable. It made everything clearer and painless
Fun fact about me: Because of an ear infection when I was 2, I no longer have an eardrum and no ossicles in my right ear. My dad described the infection as the effects of cancer, but without the cancer. The only way I can hear in my right ear is because I have a titanium rod in it.
I've never seen a doctor about it but I'm 27 and I definitely have hearing loss in one ear for as long as I can remember, roommate in university has a noise machine for at night, if I was laying with my good ear to the pillow I'd hear nothing, if I turned around with my bad ear to the pillow I'd be able to hear the noise machine
I hope she does a second video! I don't have hearing loss, but I do definitely have trouble discerning different consonant sounds when people are talking to me, so I hear them say something slightly different than what they're actually saying cause the consonant sounds get a little muffled so I have to have people repeat things. Is that a hearing problem or an auditory processing problem in my brain?
Wanting to add to this about the ear candling. a decade ago, i had the ear bubble feeling that would not go away. I did what everybody does with a problem like this, i googled remedy. One of the selection said "light a cigarette and stick in your ear. The difference in pressure will help to remove the bubble". I didn't do it, but I was talking to my Guild War buddies I feel bad for those who believe it and try it out.
Ear plugs should be mandated at every concert. The musicians are wearing them, imagine if they didn't, they could no longer tour. Good ear plugs also don't sound bad, they just mute the overall level of sound rather than taking all the bass away
Ear plugs mandated for everyone?! Isn’t it easier and doesn’t it make more sense to simply lower the volume? Perhaps have a mandated maximum and average allowed decibel level.
As an Audiology Graduate student, this video and her explanations for concepts/questions were *chefs kiss*. Definitely going to use this as an example when explaining these concepts during community outreach!! ❤
(Edited to correct - This is a production issue by the video editors not Dr Taylor see below) As a random small technical gripe when she mentions the ossicles, she picks up the wrong part. What she has in her hand at that point is the vestibular system, the cochlea and semicircular canals. The ossicles are actually attached to the back of the eardrum on that apparatus.
I went to get my hearing checked at a clinic, and they did that beep test thing, but apparently the machine was broken. Everyone was mad an me for saying I couldn’t hear anything. A week later my mom got a call saying they found the issue, and to come back. The clinic closed two months later…
Hearing the word cochlea in a different accent is amusing. In Australia, the way we pronounce it is heavier on the COC part and added an R on the end of pronouncing it. So it comes out as Coc-Lear.
I wish you had a chance to talk about bone conduction headphones and Cochlear BAHA (bone anchored hearing assistance) and similar products. I had sudden hearing loss in one ear and ended up with a BAHA. Years after my surgery, a variety of great quality bone conduction headphones came out that allowed me to hear in stereo again. I particularly like the Aftershokz products.
Being a first year resident of ENT. all I've done done in last couple weeks is cleaning people's ears. This is what we do. If it's soft wax. We take a Q-tip like thing, and we clean the ear as far as we can SEE. Whatever we can't see. We don't blindly put anything in there. Eardrum is just 3 cells thick(oversimplified), and can get damaged very easily. If it's hard wax, we prescribe wax softening ear drops for a week, then remove the wax by syringing. Which is. Using a 10ml syringe, without the needle, to push water inside the ear vigorously, so that wax comes out along with water. If it doesn't come out, another week of eardrops and repeat. My favourite part is. Seeing the kids cray while seeing a huge syringe, And me squirting water on their hand to make them see what it is, And them suddenly stop crying...
Oh my... I'd agree with anything she said. 😳 Also this is seriously the most thorough I've heard anyone answer any of these questions on here. Very well done!
I think I have difficulty filtering the noise, but also my ears are sensitive. Some days I put in earplugs to cut the noise, but I notice that it becomes super easy to understand people, even when they are being quieter than normal. ._.
If you decide to do a part 2, can you talk about hearing loss associated with earphone use at the 6k hz? I do auditory research, and we see it a lot with our younger participants.
I was born with tinnitus. I discovered at 31 people don't hear a constant cathode tube beep in their ear. I got tested and my whole ear complex is fine; that means my hearing cortex is beeping for itself. Is there ANYTHING that can be done?
I have some moderate tinnitus too and made the same discovery as you when I was well over 50. There isn't really much you can do unless you already qualify for hearing aids (10:50 onwards). I was told there are special pillows that make a regular low-key noise (can be configured) for bed, if you can't fall asleep because your tinnitus keeps you awake. My tinnitus rarely is too loud for me to fall asleep, but when it is, I select a brown-noise YT video, or, what I like even more, a video with sounds of sea waves. During the day, having low background music helps me. I have found, however, that the best way to cope with my tinnitus is to become friends with it. I treat it like a mildly annoying cute puppy that won't leave me alone 🙂 Whether that approach works for you is very much dependent on the tinnitus and your patience.
Really interesting info... I have tinnitus and it can really affect your quality of life. Can you guys make a video with an endometriosis expert? There is so much misinformation out there about it, making it so hard to get good treatment. Some of the experts in the US include Dr Sinervo, Dr Arrington, Dr Albee, Dr Nezhat, Dr Vidali, Dr Mitroi, Dr Redwine, amongst others.
7:40 A decibell is actually the tenth of a Bel, we just use decibel more, like we use kilogram more than gram. Fun fact about Bells and decibel: its a logarithemic scale, not a linear one! This is because thats how we precieve loudness. Bels and decibels aren't exclusive to sound too. You can use them to tranaform any meqsurment into a logarithmic scale
You don't have to go to a specialist to get ear wax removed. Go to your GP/PCP. Medical assistants can perform a warm water flush. Fast, easy, and likely cheaper.
People and particularly phone manufacturers need to understand that not all headphones take the same amount of power to get equally loud. So the person saying they need their headphones "jacked all the way up" might just have an inefficient headphone. And your phone automatically turning your volume down and warning you, when your headphone is just so inefficient the phone can barely make them play normally at max volume is maddening.
Sounds to me like you're playing the music WAAAAY too loud! You shouldn't be getting close to max, especially not for prolonged time. You're going to have tinnitus before you're 30.
People give my funny looks when I buy a big pack of q tips like I'm sticking them in my ears all day. I use them to clean guns people! Give me a break!
In elementary school there was a girl that would go around the playground and scream as loud and high as she could in people’s ears. I was her victim one day, and I lost some hearing in my right ear. I can barely hear people if they’re on my right side :(
@@bennytennyson She probably was eventually. It was pretty clear that the girl had special needs, so it was probably tough for teachers to understand how to discipline her. It was a few decades ago so there wasn’t as much awareness.
Like she says at 5:10 I watched this video with my hearing aids connected to the Bluetooth on my computer! Having hearing aids with bluetooth is seriously the best thing ever because it even amplifies the frequencies I have trouble hearing when in the past I had to take out my hearing aids to use headphones that didn't, so now listening to music is so much clearer and I can actually do phone calls now.
I have eczema, and it extends to the inside of my ears. My wax is exceptionally dry and more like sand than wax. The itch can get so bad it drives me insane.
Haha! You might be the only person who actually understands what curly hair is! Everyone thought my hair was wet and fresh out of the shower! I use controlled chaos shampoo and conditioner and then Pantene pro-v mousse !
Great information. I've unfortunately had to learn about the inner ear due to vertigo, and some speech therapy I had as a kid. I wish I had done more with the speech therapy, but I guess I did something right because I can tell when I get tired I am really hard to understand. I assume that means I am trying harder with full energy. This is a good reminder to try even harder.
I had my volume all the way down for some reason, so when this video started I thought this was some neat audio gimmick lol. It took me a minute to realize that no I'm just dumb.
I straighten a paper clip but keeping a tight U shape at one end and use it to remove excess ear wax, taking care never to stick it in too deep. Cue tips are just to remove moisture at the very outer edge of the ear canal, it shouldn't go in past the cotton.
The funny things about watching this series of videos is to see people asking basic info we, literally, learn in school as.of they were huge mysteries of the universe.
Anyone else started crying when she mentioned hearing aids for tinnitus finally allowing people to "hear silence"? No? Just me? :') I want to hear silence too Hearing aids are so stupidly expensive though lol
When I’ve had ear infections on planes, the pressure makes my body feel squirmy and my leg starts kicking. Like, the feeling is so uncomfortable I just start squirming around a little, and I feel so bad for the people sitting near me. They don’t seem to ever believe me either lmao.
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Maybe it's because I know she's an audiologist but she annunciates everything beautifully and speaks with an even sound level. Like she clearly works with the hearing impared to naturally say every sound in a word to be heard as easily as possible
I was about to say the same thing!
Enunciate
She’s also very attractive
It’s not just her enunciation that is extremely beautiful! 😁 Those eyes!
Simp
She talks maddeningly clear. I love it haha
Only if you are speaking in her accent. If subtitles weren’t there, i wouldn’t understand a lot of things
@@Lampey22 I don't have the same accent but I can hear it perfectly, what's your accent?
@@wefo4833 English is not my mother language so my accent is my language’s accent
@@Lampey22 “This person is only speaking English clearly enough for English speakers to understand.” Homie that’s how language works.
@@uncleurda8101 No no. He means the lady doesn’t sound like English is her fist language and other people who have the same first language as her are able to understand her more easily.
I’m so glad she talked about how hearing aids are more complicated than just a mic and speaker, as someone who has had two of them since I’ve been four I’ve had to explain that so many times (also having automatic Bluetooth ears is super cool)
I have them too! She used my exact kind!
I have had them since I was 3 and totally relate to this. Strongly considering just sending this video to people 😂
That is pretty awesome can you play music through them?
yeah we are totally cool with our bluetooth ears we had airpods before airpods were a thing.
As a previous wearer of hearing aids (now coclear implant) I know exactly what you mean.
Not calling this "Hearing Aid" was a huge missed opportunity
I agree 😂
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Sure, dad.
OK Boomer?! 😎😂
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My doctor also told me that our ears are self-cleaning. But when I pressured her for some off-the-record advice, she finally conceded that if I really.. REALLY.. felt the need to clean inside my ear canal, I could go ahead and use my elbows. I just adore my doctor!
how?😅
@@michael-john4954 That was the point of her joke.
Why are you spewing out off-the-record advice ?
@@michaelashley2855 try cleaning your ear with your elbow. It’s what they don’t want you to know 😈
Now imagine somebody with hypermobility actually does this.
I wish everyone, including myself, could speak this clearly all the time
About earplugs at concerts - there are a variety of frequency-balanced earplugs that protect your hearing while preserving the sound quality of the music (Eargasm and Hearos are a couple of examples). I HIGHLY recommend them!
Flare is also great!
High fidelity earplugs right ?
20-30 years ago there was nothing but full blocks.
There's no excuse these days to not protect your ears with something that can actually increase one's enjoyment of the music.
@@ALAPINO yeah I mean concerts sound BETTER with hearing protection! It sounds deeper and also blocks the crowd noise around you.
drumming earplugs are a lifesaver. they filter out the super-loud noises, but still keep really good quality sound
As someone who has severe tinnitus, I listen to these videos to help not focus on it -- and this one was perfect! So well done and I wish I had such an awesome audiologist.
The way I was hyped to to this!! I was born with hearing loss, so I had to see MANY audiologist in my life so far. People like her made my life so much easier. Her talking about hearing aids and clearing up misconceptions or even spreading knowledge made me smile ear to ear.
Aww thanks for the positive feedback!!
#a11y ❤️
@@Dr_Earwax 🥶 But I don't.
I really don't appreciate your profession pushing cochlear implants onto my people, treating Deafness as a disease rather than a language and a community.
@@guyman1570 no one should push anything on any one so I am sorry to hear you have felt like that in the past. I definitely recognize the Deaf community and know that hearing loss is not considered a disability for everyone. Thank you for sharing your perspective!
Eat to ear 😂😂😂😂😂
I am someone who has suffered with tinnitus and when I went to an audiologist about it, it turned out I had an additional hearing problem I wasn’t aware of and the subsequent hearing aids I got do indeed silence the ringing. It’s wonderful!
I'm gonna have to bring that up with my GP when I go in for my physical, see if I can get that covered by insurance. I've been putting up with this crap for almost twenty years, the sound of silence would be *amazing* after so long
As someone who has been to many loud concerts and been in infantry, combat, and is now nearing 60, you should wear hearing protection whenever you can, same as sun protection for skin and sun glasses for your eyes.
100% this
Unless you're going to the beach or are working long hours under the sun, there really isn't any need to use sunscreen. I see people spraying that stuff anytime they go out under the open sky for like 5 minutes nowadays. Way too much marketing being pushed by the cosmetic companies.
sunglasses are good for your eyes? can you elaborate
Well yeah hearing protection is good and all, but aint no way im wearing it to a concert
@@kvassman_ as someone who used to perform in concerts very frequently, wear hearing protection. the professionals do it for a reason, and if you enjoy going to concerts you should wear it too. When I was performing, I did not wear it. I am 22 and am going to have nearly complete hearing loss by my late 40's to early 50's because of it.
As a hearing care professional, I totally agree with everything that has been said here. All information is briefly explained and is in line with current audiological practice. It was a pure pleasure to watch this video. Well done! Hope to see more! :)
Thanks! Glad I accurately represented our profession!!
As a non hearing care professional, I also totally agree.
Question to you
Are in ear headphones bad for ears? I'm surprised this was never asked in the video.
As one too, not 100% she showed the wrong bones at the beginning. She was talking about the ossicular chain and how they’re the smallest bones in the body (TRUE) but she showed the semicircular ducts. The rest seems very accurate to my knowledge
@@Metamine0 it’s actually not a matter of how you listen to music, it’s how LOUD you listen to it. Playing music at a decent level with earbuds isn’t any worse than on speakera
Brilliant, well-spoken, well-enunciated, and a welcoming and animated face. Great video! I learned a lot.
it's pronounced tĭ-nī′təs
@@nihilistzen6133 huh ?
Otherwise it is a great video and she is a great presenter. But she did flub that word.
Indeed, she seems nice but her uptalking is off the charts.
Animated face is a sign of life
The way she speaks and displays herself really is infectious, lovely
How nice
I feel more this kind of smile feels trained/fake/forced and it's a bit weird.
But that's cultural I guess as in the US there isn't a difference between being friendly, professional or polite. So people are forced to smile so they don't come off as "rude".
She is such an excellent communicator. Her annunciation and clarity in speech is phenomenal. Not to mention she has an infectious smile and a face that is easy on the eyes.
Simp lol
Try again in a year.
Loved this as someone who previously studied to be an audiologist in the past. Also just love all of the "expert answers" videos on this channel. Thanks WIRED and Dr. Emily!
The way that she speaks is A MA Z I N G, like I cannot believe how well she speaks, so clearly and so well spoken! I was absolutely mesmerised by all of her responses. I loved her beyond words. Nothing but the best for this doctor! Loved her!
Consonants: A+
End of word vowels: C for Californiuuuuh
It’s because she doesn’t do the stupid upspeak
I’m also incredibly jealous of her teeth
As someone who has had hearing loss since age 13 (now age 45), I really appreciate this video! I usually have to watch everything with captions because my hearing loss mainly affects speech. Like I can hear people speaking but I can't make out the words most of the time, hence the need for closed captioning. But this was so well enunciated I didn't even need the captions so I'm very grateful for that! Made me feel normal for once.
I'd highly recommend looking into hearing aids in your situation. You'll probably find them amazingly useful 👍
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Maybe look up that Ted Talk about Auditory Processing Disorder. It sounds just like what you're describing.
The dad joke ("tenth of a bel') is actually correct. The unit was named after Alexander Graham Bell, and the "tenth" part of it proved to be the most useful for a scale of intensity.
Yeah, I thought she would bring it up.
@@ghostderazgriz It probably got cut out if she did say it
The trouble is, a Bell or deci Bell is not used by itself to measure anything, as it's just a ratio of 2 values, i.e. a relative unit of measurement. One needs to also specify what the 2 values measure, e.g. dBW, dBm, dBA, dBSP etc.
7:30 i had my left ear completely blocked and ear wax softening drops didn't help too. when I went to the doc she just got a big syringe with water and cleared it. It felt uncomfortable but not painful but it felt sooooo good after she cleaned it.
My ears are not blocked but just a little congested and I think I'm going to try the wax drops. Wish me luck! (I went to the doctor twice a few years ago where they unblocked my ear with the water syringe too, which worked well for me especially because my ear wasn't sensitive/hurting beforehand.)
There are eardrops that both moisten the wax and make the wax run out of your ear, but vaccuuming your ear always works too. It's just a bit uncomfortable the first time.
She is absolutely gorgeous and so personable. I'd love to see her answer more questions in future videos!match.
I'd love it if she used the props a bit more to explain some of these parts of the ear in a more visual way.
My genius mother once told me confidently that earwax has zero purpose. When I was a child she used to make me lay on my side, and she'd hold my head down while she poured rubbing alcohol in my ears and shoved q-tips in there. This caused problems for me like double hearing, and everything sounding weird and metallic, which as a music lover was rather traumatic. She never connected that it was because of her.
That's so sad... it really bugs me when people can be so confidently wrong
@@chlorhex6785 Unfortunately the examples of her behavior get so much worse, I consider this one quite tame.
Oy vay
@@tvtitlechampion3238 Amen
Jesus I'm so sorry that happened to you. That must have been horrible.
I hope your ears and hearing didn't suffer any permanent damage.
This lady is clearly very knowledgeable in her field. Sound and frequency is so important to us as humans, and we’ve definitely lost a lot of that throughout the millennia.
We also have much more music and much wider variety of it today than ever before. So I really don't know what you are even talking about
We lost sound and frequency!
What???????
This is the part where you go "something something 440hz"
My dad used to complain of dizziness after standing- but not immediately after. It would take a few minutes- like he would stand up, walk off- and then he would become dizzy and a little sick to his stomach. They tried everything, couldn't figure out what was going on. Finally, one day I noticed that when he stood up, he had to try to make his left foot move several times before it actually moved. I asked him about it, and he said that sometimes it felt like "his foot was glued to the floor." I put that in quotes because it's a very important phrase- when I googled it exactly as he said it- Parkinson's disease. It explained that sometimes patients would say this very thing- exactly what he said- that they felt like their foot was glued to the floor. So, I told dad- he didn't believe me. I told my mom, she didn't believe me, told my brothers- no one would hear it. About 5 years later he died of Parkinson's disease- he diagnosed about 3 years before he died and about 2 years after I had tried to tell everyone in the family.
That said- it wouldn't have mattered- there isn't anything they can do if you're 86 and have severe osteoporosis and silicosis of the lungs. If you're young and don't have other issues, and you have money- like Micheal J. Fox, you can find help. If you're 86, already sick, and broke- it's a death sentence and the doctors literally turn you away. They told us they had no further treatments or medications to give him, not to bring him back. Either take him to a hospice or have the hospice nurses come out to the house.
This was super fascinating, although the part about the ear drum being able to self repair was the most surprising to me.
This has confused me for some time. I learn of a person who had burst ear drums yet they’re not deaf or even apparently significantly hearing impaired.
Makes sense now.
Yeah, my eardrum burst when I was a kid and it repaired itself.
it's a body tissue. most of our tissues can heal. it shouldn't be toooo surprising. but yeah i also didn't know until she said it!
My family has congenital hearing loss. Starts in our 30’s & gets worse as time goes. I remember my dad getting his hearing aids & being startled badly by how loud my brother & I had had to speak so he could hear us. I’ve had hearing aids for about 13 yrs now. I’ve had constant tinnitus for so long, I can tune it out; the hearing aids don’t block it but if I’m listening to something, my brain tunes the ringing out.
For some reason, though, my mother -despite living with my almost deaf dad, knowing his almost deaf father & totally deaf aunt- still thinks I can hear her when she talks behind me or if she whispers. Why do you whisper, m’am? I can’t hear you and Dad can’t hear you at all anyway, just speak normally!
Are you sure she's whispering or perhaps another level increase is needed on the hearing aid?
Wait how can I find an audiologist as knowledgeable as this one?!
Wait !
Wearing ear plugs at a concert actually makes the sound so MUCH clearer !!
Agreed!!!
Confirmed
Yessiree bob
This answered a problem I'm been wondering about for a while, my ability to hear with background noise is trash and I've wondered why, or if it's just my perspective. Excellent to have this explained so clearly!
I'm gonna be honest I literally had no idea an audiologist was a thing or maybe I just never thought there was a word for the study of hearing. Anyway after this video I have alot more appreciation for ears/hearing and the study of it. Actually quite interesting!
I would have loved if she'd had discussed Audio Processing Disorder and how to help with that
Maybe Audio Processing Disorder is more of a psychological disorder than ear-related?
I didn't know that anxiety and stress can be a cause of tinnitus but it makes so much sense :(
yeah, my tinnitus got *so much worse* after I lost my job, it's driving me batpoop crazy
Honestly, my main take away is that I've been saying "tinnitus" wrong my whole life.
It's correct either way, I just discovered. It is more of the British pronunciation.
What?
Don't worry, both pronunciations are correct!
@@gus473 could you say that again? i can't hear you
@@screeeeeeemttv must be his tinnitus
When I was a regular in the hospitals audiology department, I did three tests. A pressure test, the beep test and a vocal test where a word would be played and you repeat the word back
i love all of these videos, especially the medical ones
Wearing earplugs to concerts will not ruin your concert experience, all it does is make it easier to hear the singer over the instruments and the background noise. Plus your ears don't ring for 3 days after you go to the rock concert.
3 days if you're lucky. Many people have it for life. Venues, in my opinion, are criminally destroying the people's hearing. I just cannot understand how can they operate volumes around 100dB up to 140dB and there is no disclaimer?? Many people don't know about the risks and get permanent tinnitus just by going to one event
An earplug designed for loud music is even better. I use Vibes but there are others. And the music sounds better and clearer. As a musician I can attest to this
She's so lovely and intelligent. I could listen to her talk for hours.
Play this video over and over
I agree but the tattoos are a turn off for me.
My mom is an audiologist and i do sound for film, this woman knows her stuff
That one about how the hearing test works was particularly interesting to me. As I've gotten older I've explicitly had a harder time hearing things over background noise, which yeah, apparently means I'm experiencing hearing loss. Crap.
Go get your ears checked. it could change your life
Well, it happens to all of us, so don't get too down on yourself. My speech pathology prof told me that the younger generations are trending towards experiencing hearing loss increasingly early in life.
@@10sDPR It's the ear buds they wear, many of them don't have volume governors so they crank up the volume to physiologically damaging levels because they truly don't realize the danger. Next thing you know, they've got hearing loss and/or tinnitus.
Had a teacher who always said not to put anything in your ear larger than your elbow. I took it very literally and tried to figure out how I’d be able to get my elbow even close to going into my ear.
😂😂😂
Back in high school, one of my classmates was placed into a psych facility because they said he had auditory hallucinations. It turned out it was nothing more than tinnitus all along. The entire event was traumatic for him. They kept increasing his medication dosage and the sounds wouldn’t go away. Finally it was an audiologist who diagnosed him correctly.
Very sad, but believeable
8:00 I actually wore foam earplugs to a concert recently and it made hearing and actually listening to the music easier and more enjoyable. It made everything clearer and painless
Fun fact about me: Because of an ear infection when I was 2, I no longer have an eardrum and no ossicles in my right ear. My dad described the infection as the effects of cancer, but without the cancer. The only way I can hear in my right ear is because I have a titanium rod in it.
Otosclerosis?
I've never seen a doctor about it but I'm 27 and I definitely have hearing loss in one ear for as long as I can remember, roommate in university has a noise machine for at night, if I was laying with my good ear to the pillow I'd hear nothing, if I turned around with my bad ear to the pillow I'd be able to hear the noise machine
Time to go see an audiologist…
Count your blessings
I hope she does a second video! I don't have hearing loss, but I do definitely have trouble discerning different consonant sounds when people are talking to me, so I hear them say something slightly different than what they're actually saying cause the consonant sounds get a little muffled so I have to have people repeat things. Is that a hearing problem or an auditory processing problem in my brain?
Get a hearing test first. Difficulty with consonants is a common problem with high frequency hearing loss.
@@believe53787 thanks!
Go. Get. Your. Ears. Checked.
Wired should do speech-language pathologists talk about accents, accent modification, and how people learn to talk.
Wanting to add to this about the ear candling. a decade ago, i had the ear bubble feeling that would not go away. I did what everybody does with a problem like this, i googled remedy. One of the selection said "light a cigarette and stick in your ear. The difference in pressure will help to remove the bubble". I didn't do it, but I was talking to my Guild War buddies I feel bad for those who believe it and try it out.
Another based Guild Wars player moment
She’s smart she speaks perfectly and she’s beautiful
Ear plugs should be mandated at every concert. The musicians are wearing them, imagine if they didn't, they could no longer tour. Good ear plugs also don't sound bad, they just mute the overall level of sound rather than taking all the bass away
Ear plugs mandated for everyone?!
Isn’t it easier and doesn’t it make more sense to simply lower the volume?
Perhaps have a mandated maximum and average allowed decibel level.
As an Audiology Graduate student, this video and her explanations for concepts/questions were *chefs kiss*. Definitely going to use this as an example when explaining these concepts during community outreach!! ❤
I knew that ears clean themselves but I really hate having to clean my earphones every time I use them 😂
(Edited to correct - This is a production issue by the video editors not Dr Taylor see below) As a random small technical gripe when she mentions the ossicles, she picks up the wrong part. What she has in her hand at that point is the vestibular system, the cochlea and semicircular canals. The ossicles are actually attached to the back of the eardrum on that apparatus.
yeeessss I just commented this
@@ajriffic I have a cochlear implant so I'm sensitive to this stuff 😂
Production error….
Perfect annunciation, and smiles with every word. Even her eyes smile.
I wish more people could communicate this well.
I wish people would focus on LISTENING & COMPREHENSION more...
A decibel is, in fact, 1/10 of a bel. A bel is a large unit though, so decibel is more convenient to use. same thing happens with Farads (capacitors).
I went to get my hearing checked at a clinic, and they did that beep test thing, but apparently the machine was broken. Everyone was mad an me for saying I couldn’t hear anything. A week later my mom got a call saying they found the issue, and to come back. The clinic closed two months later…
I am in love with her little facial expressions. So amazing.
Truly amazing
Simply amazing
I've had two hearing aids for years and honestly, I loved watching this. She's so educational
Thanks for the positive feedback! What brand of hearing aids are you rocking?!
@@Dr_Earwax Mine are Cochlear!
Hearing the word cochlea in a different accent is amusing. In Australia, the way we pronounce it is heavier on the COC part and added an R on the end of pronouncing it. So it comes out as Coc-Lear.
yeah same in england!!
😊
All medical people should be like Dr. Taylor. She exudes confidence in her knowledge, patience with misinformation and is very easy to look at.
0:15 bars btw
I wish you had a chance to talk about bone conduction headphones and Cochlear BAHA (bone anchored hearing assistance) and similar products. I had sudden hearing loss in one ear and ended up with a BAHA. Years after my surgery, a variety of great quality bone conduction headphones came out that allowed me to hear in stereo again. I particularly like the Aftershokz products.
Being a first year resident of ENT.
all I've done done in last couple weeks is cleaning people's ears.
This is what we do.
If it's soft wax. We take a Q-tip like thing, and we clean the ear as far as we can SEE.
Whatever we can't see. We don't blindly put anything in there.
Eardrum is just 3 cells thick(oversimplified), and can get damaged very easily.
If it's hard wax, we prescribe wax softening ear drops for a week, then remove the wax by syringing.
Which is. Using a 10ml syringe, without the needle, to push water inside the ear vigorously, so that wax comes out along with water.
If it doesn't come out, another week of eardrops and repeat.
My favourite part is.
Seeing the kids cray while seeing a huge syringe,
And me squirting water on their hand to make them see what it is,
And them suddenly stop crying...
I love when passions extend into characteristics lol a lot of these support videos have that unique spark
Oh my... I'd agree with anything she said. 😳 Also this is seriously the most thorough I've heard anyone answer any of these questions on here. Very well done!
I think I have difficulty filtering the noise, but also my ears are sensitive. Some days I put in earplugs to cut the noise, but I notice that it becomes super easy to understand people, even when they are being quieter than normal. ._.
this episode should have been called hearing aid
What? 😉✌🏼
Yes!!
If you decide to do a part 2, can you talk about hearing loss associated with earphone use at the 6k hz? I do auditory research, and we see it a lot with our younger participants.
I was born with tinnitus.
I discovered at 31 people don't hear a constant cathode tube beep in their ear.
I got tested and my whole ear complex is fine; that means my hearing cortex is beeping for itself.
Is there ANYTHING that can be done?
I have some moderate tinnitus too and made the same discovery as you when I was well over 50. There isn't really much you can do unless you already qualify for hearing aids (10:50 onwards). I was told there are special pillows that make a regular low-key noise (can be configured) for bed, if you can't fall asleep because your tinnitus keeps you awake. My tinnitus rarely is too loud for me to fall asleep, but when it is, I select a brown-noise YT video, or, what I like even more, a video with sounds of sea waves. During the day, having low background music helps me. I have found, however, that the best way to cope with my tinnitus is to become friends with it. I treat it like a mildly annoying cute puppy that won't leave me alone 🙂 Whether that approach works for you is very much dependent on the tinnitus and your patience.
This is the most beautiful doctor I’ve ever seen
Really interesting info... I have tinnitus and it can really affect your quality of life.
Can you guys make a video with an endometriosis expert? There is so much misinformation out there about it, making it so hard to get good treatment. Some of the experts in the US include Dr Sinervo, Dr Arrington, Dr Albee, Dr Nezhat, Dr Vidali, Dr Mitroi, Dr Redwine, amongst others.
@wired Yes, please talk about femine issues that have been historically overlooked in medicine.
@wired I second this. This is an area of medical health that gets systematically overlooked all the time.
The way she talks so smooth and clear with a beautiful smile ❤
I'm fully convinced she'd be the only person who could fix my hearing problems. Where do I book a consultation?
7:40
A decibell is actually the tenth of a Bel, we just use decibel more, like we use kilogram more than gram.
Fun fact about Bells and decibel: its a logarithemic scale, not a linear one! This is because thats how we precieve loudness.
Bels and decibels aren't exclusive to sound too. You can use them to tranaform any meqsurment into a logarithmic scale
You don't have to go to a specialist to get ear wax removed. Go to your GP/PCP. Medical assistants can perform a warm water flush. Fast, easy, and likely cheaper.
People and particularly phone manufacturers need to understand that not all headphones take the same amount of power to get equally loud. So the person saying they need their headphones "jacked all the way up" might just have an inefficient headphone.
And your phone automatically turning your volume down and warning you, when your headphone is just so inefficient the phone can barely make them play normally at max volume is maddening.
Sounds to me like you're playing the music WAAAAY too loud! You shouldn't be getting close to max, especially not for prolonged time. You're going to have tinnitus before you're 30.
I don't put things in my ear to clean them, i do it cause it feels so good
People give my funny looks when I buy a big pack of q tips like I'm sticking them in my ears all day. I use them to clean guns people! Give me a break!
When you find the right spot
please dont to that. it will damage your ears.
You guys should do Interpreter support with sign language interpreters too
In elementary school there was a girl that would go around the playground and scream as loud and high as she could in people’s ears. I was her victim one day, and I lost some hearing in my right ear. I can barely hear people if they’re on my right side :(
that's actually very tragic that girl should be disciplined
@@bennytennyson She probably was eventually. It was pretty clear that the girl had special needs, so it was probably tough for teachers to understand how to discipline her. It was a few decades ago so there wasn’t as much awareness.
Like she says at 5:10 I watched this video with my hearing aids connected to the Bluetooth on my computer! Having hearing aids with bluetooth is seriously the best thing ever because it even amplifies the frequencies I have trouble hearing when in the past I had to take out my hearing aids to use headphones that didn't, so now listening to music is so much clearer and I can actually do phone calls now.
Bro... She's amazing! Loved this one.
Yea her clarity of speaking is soothing. Could listen to her read the phone book.
Very professional answers
And so cheerfully personable
I get very strong "Minnie Driver" vibes, especially when she uses her California accent.
Idk what it is but this lady is perfect, i dont know what the most respectful or nice thing to say is but she is beautiful and intelligent
I have eczema, and it extends to the inside of my ears. My wax is exceptionally dry and more like sand than wax. The itch can get so bad it drives me insane.
12:35 I took a neuro A&P class last semester and I can’t remember the name of the maneuver 😭😭 auditory system is so fascinating
Epley maneuver 😊
Kind of makes me want to have an audiologist appointment. PS This is awesome but also what is your curly hair routine?!! Omg
Haha! You might be the only person who actually understands what curly hair is! Everyone thought my hair was wet and fresh out of the shower! I use controlled chaos shampoo and conditioner and then Pantene pro-v mousse !
Right! She has amazing hair!
Dr. Taylor could easily become a model and make as much money! 😯
Great information. I've unfortunately had to learn about the inner ear due to vertigo, and some speech therapy I had as a kid. I wish I had done more with the speech therapy, but I guess I did something right because I can tell when I get tired I am really hard to understand. I assume that means I am trying harder with full energy. This is a good reminder to try even harder.
Her smile is so bright it cleared my ears trough my eyes
I had my volume all the way down for some reason, so when this video started I thought this was some neat audio gimmick lol. It took me a minute to realize that no I'm just dumb.
That’s a beautiful doctor.. I would have hearing issues if I could see her
I can't believe this wasn't called "Hearing Aid" instead of "Hearing Support"
I straighten a paper clip but keeping a tight U shape at one end and use it to remove excess ear wax, taking care never to stick it in too deep. Cue tips are just to remove moisture at the very outer edge of the ear canal, it shouldn't go in past the cotton.
You can legit tell she loves talking about this stuff.
I really do 😂
@@Dr_Earwax haha it really shows! Super fun to watch AND insightful!
The funny things about watching this series of videos is to see people asking basic info we, literally, learn in school as.of they were huge mysteries of the universe.
Anyone else started crying when she mentioned hearing aids for tinnitus finally allowing people to "hear silence"? No? Just me? :')
I want to hear silence too
Hearing aids are so stupidly expensive though lol
The enunciation is top notch!
When I’ve had ear infections on planes, the pressure makes my body feel squirmy and my leg starts kicking. Like, the feeling is so uncomfortable I just start squirming around a little, and I feel so bad for the people sitting near me. They don’t seem to ever believe me either lmao.
Thanks for the info, hope I can retain it or will it go in one ear and out the other. Your very pretty also.