Hearing Sciences

Top tips for festival goers from Nottingham hearing experts

 

As the UK festivals season gets under way with the start of Glastonbury today, experts from the NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Centre are giving ear-saving advice to festival goers. 

The team from the world renowned hearing centre based at The University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals Trust carries out cutting edge research into hearing loss and its diagnosis and treatment. 

One of the team, health psychologist Dr Abby McCormack is academic consultant on a special BBC iWonder feature out today giving advice on how music fans can stop gigs and festivals ruining their hearing. She’s been working with top club DJ and tinnitus sufferer Anne Savage to try to spread awareness of the damage loud music can have on hearing.  

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Posted on Tuesday 28th June 2016

Hearing Sciences

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