Body-style hearing aids are used primarily for three reasons:

• First, if a person has a very severe-to-profound degree of hearing loss, it may be the only instrument they can wear that will give them the high output needed to stay connected to the world.
• Second, many hearing aid users have dexterity problems. There is nothing easier to operate than a Body Aid. It has large controls, large switches, the unit itself is larger, and easier to handle for people with dexterity problems.
• The third reason can be financial. All our Body aids use AA batteries making Body hearing aids very inexpensive to operate.

The hearing aid itself is worn in a shirt pocket and has a cord leading up to the ear. There is a part called the Receiver (speaker) that is at the other end of that cord, which is worn in the ear along with an earmold. This provides a much greater distance between the Receiver and Microphone, which means the volume produced by the Receiver can be turned up much higher before the sound reaches back to the Microphone pickup of the Body Aid.