In the field of audiology, change is inevitable: changes in technologies with hearing devices, changes in consumer knowledge, and changes in consumer-driven solutions. With these changes, the audiologist must adapt to meet the needs of the consumer. There are potential predictors that the audiologist could use to determine who is more likely to pursue and use amplification; by using these data, the audiologists may increase their productivity and increase patient satisfaction. The goal of this article is to investigate the MarkeTrak 10 (MT10) data to determine the trends in adoption and use of hearing aids as well as examine predictive factors that can be used to determine hearing aid adoption.

Arthroscopic superior capsular reconstruction has become a popular technique used to restore shoulder function in superior cuff deficiency. Passage of the graft via the portal sites is prone to entanglement with sutures and graft twisting. To make shuttling of the graft easier, and reduce the risk of suture entanglement, we developed a technique involving fabricating a suture management cannula from a simple sterile 10-mL syringe. The benefits of this technique are that it allows multiple sutures to be managed easily, avoiding entanglement of the graft during passage and attachment.

The Audiology Practice Standards Organization (APSO) has published its second audiology standard. This second standard is focused on adult hearing aid fittings. These standards put forward information about verification that should be completed on hearing aids before, during, and after a fitting. Validation following the verification of the hearing aids to ensure patient satisfaction with the devices is also included in the standards. The goal of this article is to provide clinicians with the guidelines related to hearing aid verification and validation while also providing information about how to put these standards into clinical practice.

Increasing numbers of military Veterans have reported substantive self-perceived hearing handicap despite normal/near normal hearing on standard audiometric testing. These hearing difficulties are especially true for Veterans with histories of blast exposure and presumed mild traumatic brain injury, with many of these Veterans also being comorbid for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Clinical tests of Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) commonly are used to investigate their hearing concerns, but performance on CAPD tests typically is compared to published norms established from non-Veteran populations. Since Veterans and non-Veterans differ significantly in many relevant domains, using non-Veteran norms is potentially problematic for the interpretation of CAPD test results. Veterans ( n = 217; with and without histories of blast exposure and PTSD) completed a large CAPD test battery. An N  = 1 approach was used to compare the performance of the blast-exposed Veterans and those with PTSD to published norms and data from the Veterans without histories of blast exposure and PTSD (control group). The number of abnormal cases identified based on the Veteran control group was lower than that found with the published norms for all tests. Therefore, establishing and using population-appropriate norms are critical for accurately diagnosing CAPD in Veterans.