Loud sounds can damage your hearing, and the louder the sounds you’re exposed to, the faster you’ll lose your hearing. While it’s not hard to recognize that extremely loud sounds will damage your hearing health, we often don’t realize the …
Hearing Aids Keep You Happy, Healthy, and Wealthy
There is considerable evidence that people with hearing loss earn, on average, significantly less than people with normal hearing. Hearing aid users report improvements in their overall quality of life and hearing aids have a positive impact on family relationships. …
When to Get New Hearing Aids
While audiologists typically recommend replacing hearing aids every three to five years, the appropriate time to consider new hearing aids varies widely. A lot of it depends on your hearing abilities and lifestyle needs. Are your current hearing aids addressing …
Hearing Aids & Artificial Intelligence
Hearing technology is changing rapidly, and today’s devices are a vast improvement over hearing aids of just a few years ago. Hearing aids are able to perform complex functions, such as provide the best in seamless connectivity, automatically changing between …
Sensitivity to Sound As We Age
Hearing loss is common among people of all ages, including seniors, adults, teenagers, and even children. However, hearing loss affects people differently depending on the age of their ears, and researchers have been studying how sensitivity to sound changes as …
Coming to Terms with Your Hearing Loss
Have you noticed that you can’t hear as well as you used to? You may not think it’s a big deal, and might be in denial that you have hearing loss at all. Hearing loss is often a gradual process, …
Ear Candles: Effective or Dangerous?
For those who are unfamiliar, the idea of placing a candle in one’s ear sounds like a wacky idea. Yet some ancient traditions and current naturopathic and homeopathic medicine sometimes recommends just this practice. Perhaps you have tried ear candles …
The Role of Ears in the Balance System
The ability to balance is something many of us take for granted, but balance disorders can be catastrophic to our feeling of wellbeing. The cerebellum is a region of the brain that is responsible for the ability to stay upright …
Hearing Loss and Sleep
Our senses are intimately connected to the ability to get restful sleep, but the relationship between them is quite mysterious. Why is it that we are able to sleep through distracting sounds sometimes, but an alarm can wake us up? …
Weather Preparedness Tips for People with Hearing Loss
Few things are more terrifying than a weather disaster rushing your way. In these moments we recognize how powerful the forces of nature are, and watch helplessly as storms rip through our cities, leaving devastation behind. Weather emergencies often strike …