Any major concerns regarding limitations of activities to a CI user (contact sports, scuba diving)?
I believe this is a personal decision. I believe that some surgeons recommend against participation in contact sports (i.e. football)… but, you might want to ask your audiologist about that. But, basically, I would say that you can easily participate in the same types of activities that you did with your hearing aids. In addition, with one of the wearing options you can secure the battery pack to an article of clothing (inside of t-shirt, etc.) so that if the processor does fall off, it will not hit the ground. Some users have worn earmolds with their BTE devices to keep them from falling off. I wear a headband to protect the device from sweat and to keep it secure. In addition, a “dive” study has been performed by Dr. Backous at Va Mason in Seattle. He found that normal scuba depths had no effect on the implant. However, this was done with an implant device alone- NOT implanted in a person, so it is still recommended that the maximum safe depth to be one atmospheric pressure (ATP) o
