Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines let your physician peer deeply inside your body without the dangers involved in surgery and without the damaging effects of an x-ray machine. MRI sounds great -- but the process takes time, and the MRI machines are very noisy, which makes them an uncomfortable and scary place to spend time in.
Fortunately, most MRI labs now offer patients the option to listen to music or to at least wear ear muffs while inside the machine where the noise is loudest.
With this in mind, we've created a special MRI Safe Hearing Protection Page which provides a convenient listing of our top-recommended products for use with MRI machines. These products include a variety of passive hearing protection ear muffs to block out sound, along with some special tube-style MRI earphones that work with a special kind of sound source that's available from many MRI machines. All of these products are MRI safe -- that is, they do not contain metal of any kind.
Too, you should know that any of our foam ear plugs are safe for use inside an MRI machine (aside from metal detectable plugs, which contain small amounts of metal).
With hearing protection like foam ear plugs or passive earmuffs, or even better, with an MRI-safe set of headphones, having an MRI scan done can be a much more pleasant experience.
Be safe, and do the right thing.
--Tom "Dr. Earplug" Bergman
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