Skydiving: The audiological perspective

Audiology and Audiological Medicine

AUDIOLOGICAL medicine is a relatively new specialty in the British Isles and the editor of this two volume work is one of the outstanding British specialists in this field. He has gathered together most of the leading audiological physicians in this country and quite a few of distinction from overseas. In the preface he states that his plan is to cover all clinical aspects of this specialty, wi...

Human Error: The Principal Cause of Skydiving Fatalities

Current audiological diagnostics

Today's audiological functional diagnostics is based on a stock of hearing tests, whose large number takes account of the variety of malfunctions of a complex sensory organ system and the necessity to examine it in a differentiated manner and at any age of life. The objective is to identify nature and origin of the hearing loss and to quantify its extent as far as necessary to dispose of the in...

Skydiving for Beginners: A Journey of Recovery and Hope

advice that was not only intelligible but also constructive. He was a great confidant, recognising the normality of imperfection. For Greg, however, the real world was rooted in his family and friends whose own lives were shaped by his warmth and humanity. His illustrated life on Facebook, written from Australia, was about fun, friends and family (blithely ignoring the cancer that developed a y...

The Challenge of Non-Audiological Variables

Just over ten years ago, Gatehouse (1994) provided research evidence of the powerful impact that psychological variables may have on adjustment to hearing loss, as well as hearing aid benefit, use, and satisfaction. Using a regression model analysis, Gatehouse found that none of the audiological variables that he included in his study actually entered into the equation for social and psychologi...