{"id":163,"date":"2018-09-25T21:36:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T04:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box2122.temp.domains\/~zyonlabs\/?p=163"},"modified":"2018-10-17T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:02:09","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-a-hearing-aid-and-a-personal-sound-amplifier-psap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/technical-articles\/whats-the-difference-between-a-hearing-aid-and-a-personal-sound-amplifier-psap\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between a hearing aid and a personal sound amplifier (PSAP)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hearing aids are <em>marketed<\/em> to treat hearing loss as medical devices. Personal sound amplification products (PSAPs) are marketed to amplify ambient sounds. They are not regulated by the FDA as medical devices and are not <em>marketed<\/em> as devices to treat hearing loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though it&#8217;s not required, all of our devices are actually FDA registered and meet applicable quality and performance standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing aids are marketed to treat hearing loss as medical devices. Personal sound amplification products (PSAPs) are marketed to amplify ambient sounds. They are not regulated by the FDA as medical devices and are not marketed as devices to treat hearing loss. Even though it&#8217;s not required, all of our devices are actually FDA registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zyonlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}