{"id":1183,"date":"2014-12-07T23:39:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T23:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2014-12-27T21:15:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T21:15:15","slug":"ear-plugs-for-musicians-and-hearing-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/ear-plugs-for-musicians-and-hearing-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Ear Plugs for musicians and hearing protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/modesto\">my personal FaceBook<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I suffer from hyperacusis (sound distortion) in mainly one ear. I&#8217;m wondering if there are ear plugs out there that would work with piano or music playing. About 15 years ago, I had an ENT in Springfield Illinois make me a custom ear plug which cut down the sound partially, but I only had it made for one ear. I&#8217;m thinking that I might need it for both ears, and I&#8217;m not sure if anything is now off the shelf. I could probably just use those foam buds. If anything I could try <a href=\"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/modesto-botox\/\">Botox <\/a>around the ear for this &#8211; it hasn&#8217;t been tried yet, I could be a pioneer here. It seems that Botox works for so many other things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I got the response from another fellow doctor who suggested:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Try <a title=\"Etymotic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etymotic.com\/index.php\">etymotic <\/a>, they reduce DB in a flat style, appropriate for musicians.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to try these ear buds for hearing protection, and I hope to report back. \u00a0This would be great in an operating room environment too. \u00a0There is a lot of suction and other noises going on in the operating room. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have to see if these will work. \u00a0I have heard that dentists use ear plugs like these, so I think it would work well for <a href=\"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\"><strong>surgeons<\/strong> <\/a>in the operating room as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/custom-ear-plugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/custom-ear-plugs-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"custom ear plugs\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/custom-ear-plugs-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/custom-ear-plugs-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/custom-ear-plugs-624x465.jpg 624w, https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/custom-ear-plugs.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My previous ear plugs (hearing protectors) were made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westone.com\/store\/index.php\/westone-music-products\/hearing-protection.html\">Westone Laboratories,<\/a> Inc. \u00a0 &#8211; westone style # 49. \u00a0These were custom made and I had them made by an Ear Nose Throat Surgeon who made a mold of my ear canal and sent it to the company. \u00a0But this was back around the year 2001. \u00a0I just visited their webpage and it seems to have Etymotic ear plugs for sale at their webpage as well.<\/p>\n<p>Google search &#8220;westone style 49.&#8221; for more info.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Modesto Botox Blog --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1634461587022628\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1475059321\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on my personal FaceBook &#8220;I suffer from hyperacusis (sound distortion) in mainly one ear. I&#8217;m wondering if there are ear plugs out there that would work with piano or music playing. About 15 years ago, I had an ENT in Springfield Illinois make me a custom ear plug which cut down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,298,202,203,13],"tags":[356,357],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info","category-head-and-neck","category-music","category-piano","category-wellness","tag-hearing-protection","tag-musicians-ear-plugs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}