Hearing Health Blog

“Now I wake up each morning to the sound of birds” A cochlear implant is a small, complex electronic device that can help to provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing. The implant consists of an external portion that sits behind the ear and a second portion that […]

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Murphy’s Law informs us that “if anything can go wrong, it will.” A better variation might be that “things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance.” That’s the reason we change the oil in our cars, switch out the filters, and rotate the tires. We’re aiming to preserve our […]

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The effects of hearing loss appear obvious, such as the stress of the chronic struggle to hear and the impact this can have on relationships. But what if the consequences went deeper, and could actually impact your personality? Research from the University of Gothenburg suggests that this may be the case. The researchers studied 400 […]

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Communicating in the presence of hearing loss can be trying—for each party. For people with hearing loss, limited hearing can be stressful and draining, and for their conversation companions, the frequent repeating can be just as taxing. However, the difficulty can be alleviated as long as both parties assume responsibility for profitable communication. Since communication […]

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Have you ever suffered extreme mental exhaustion? Perhaps you felt this way after finishing the SAT examination, or after concluding any test or task that called for rigorous concentration. It’s like running a marathon in your head—and when you’re finished, you just want to crash. A similar experience happens in those with hearing loss, and […]

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In 2013, Johns Hopkins University researcher and epidemiologist Dr. Frank Lin led a study which was the first to examine the potential consequence of hearing loss on mental performance. Research volunteers with hearing loss took repeated cognitive assessments, used to evaluate memory and thinking skills, over the length of six years. Hearing tests were also […]

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You’ve most likely never noticed, but on the back of any package of cotton swabs there’s a written warning that is some variation of this: “Caution: Do not enter the ear canal with this product. Penetrating the ear canal could lead to injury.” If you have a package of cotton swabs nearby, go take a […]

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The curious thing regarding hearing loss is that, statistically, if you have it, you more than likely won’t acknowledge it or seek treatment for at least five to seven years—possibly longer. The statistics: 20 percent of the US population, or 48 million individuals, have some extent of hearing loss. Of those with hearing loss, only […]

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Have you ever taken a course, or attended a lecture, where the ideas were presented so rapidly or in so complex a fashion that you learned practically nothing? If yes, your working memory was most likely overloaded beyond its total capacity. The limits of working memory We all process information in three steps: 1) sensory […]

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If hearing loss is the invisible disability, then sound is the invisible hazard. Without even being alert to it, the sounds we subject ourselves to might be producing permanent hearing loss that grows irreversibly year after year. Who’s in danger of hearing loss? An average conversation registers at a volume of around 60 decibels. City […]

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