Baha
The Baha range of hearing devices provides hearing to people who do not benefit from traditional hearing aid technology and are not candidates for a cochlear implant. In conditions where the ear canal is not function normally or with single-sided deafness, Baha is designed to help improve hearing. Baha utilises direct bone conduction, where the bone acts as a pathway for sound to travel to the inner ear without involving the ear canal.
For more information about the Baha device, please contact Cochlear or your local Baha Clinic.
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The Baha gave me back my life
There are so many ways having the Baha has given me back my life and I'd like to share them with you. Wendy
- No longer do I withdraw from conversation with more than one person.
- Social isolation is no longer a problem.
- I now feel confident in meetings with colleagues, when I go shopping, dining in restaurants with family and friends or at social gatherings.
- I am able to confidently collaborate and no longer have to ask, "I'm sorry could you please repeat that?"
- I no longer have to lip-read, which made me so tired and often causes embarrassment to people.
- I no longer have problems with background noise.
- I know where 'here' is when calling someone in the house, yard, classroom, etc.
- I can find my mobile when it rings. (what a shame:)
- I never get a fright when someone comes up behind me on the wrong side.
- I never miss a whisper on my deaf side because they are actually talking into the microphone.
- Being able to hear everything when a passenger in the car, with radio on windows open, traffic.
- Being able to hear emergency vehicle sirens, horns or the screeching of breaks before they are on my tail, and the direction they are coming from.
- I won't be so upset when someone really raises their voice to me in frustration because I can't hear them.
- Never having to swap sides when walking next to someone who's talking to me.
- Being able to go for a walk and hear a pushbike or jogger come from behind.
- Never having to do a 'head rotation' to hear someone that I can't move around, which made me dizzy.
- Being able to cross the road without watching where I am stepping and looking and hearing at the same time and staying balanced.
- Never having the TV or radio volume loud (the family is thrilled to bits).
- Missing parts of my favourite TV program when someone is talking in the room.
- Never become frustrating or frustrated with anyone again because I can't hear.
- My balance has improved.
- Someone always wants something when you're on the phone, and I could never hear them as my good ear was in use. Now I can hear them, but don't want to, so I just adjust the volume to the 'off' position and motion to them to wait.
- Hearing my husband over the table when out for dinner and hearing the waitress, shop assistants and the general public in noisy places.
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