Hearing Health Blog

Life hack is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as: “A strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way.” Life hacks can help save you both time and money, and some are so easy you’ll wonder why you hadn’t already thought of them. Creative but straightforward life-hacks […]

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Congratulations on taking the preliminary step toward healthier hearing by scheduling your hearing assessment. You’re already ahead of the game, as many people delay getting a hearing test for years—in some instances decades. But now that you’ve arranged your hearing test, you’ll want to be certain that you’re well prepared for the visit, especially if […]

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Photo credit: flickr Saad Faruque Twentieth century neuroscience has discovered something rather astonishing: specifically that your brain can change itself well into adulthood. While in the early 1900s it was assumed that the brain ceased changing in adolescence, we now know that the brain reacts to change throughout life. Neuroplasticity To understand exactly how your […]

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There seems to be more misunderstanding when it relates to hearing care than with most other medical specializations. We don’t need to ask, for example, what a dentist or eye doctor can do for us. But when it comes to our hearing, we’re typically uncertain as to what we should do or who we should […]

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Congratulations—you’re prepared to join the millions of Americans who have found out how wearing hearing aids can make life more exciting and fulfilling. In the near future, you’ll be listening to sounds you’ve long forgotten, engaging in stimulating conversations, and listening to music with enhanced discernment for each instrument. But before you can get to […]

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You have most likely watched the advertisements. The ones pushing PSAPs, or personal sound amplification products, ensuring a boost to hearing for as little as 20 dollars. It sounds like a excellent bargain—especially when compared to the substantial price tag of a hearing aid. In reality, it’s not so much a great deal as it […]

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In the US, hearing loss to some extent impacts 20 percent of the overall population, or 48 million people. On average, therefore, one out of every five people you meet will have hearing loss. For those who seriously want to understand the condition—or that deal with hearing loss themselves and would like some personal perspective—there’s […]

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If you had the chance to prevent or decrease the risk of cognitive decline as you grew older, how much would you be prepared to pay for it? What would you say to $15 per week? That’s somewhere around the price of a professionally-programmed pair of hearing aids, which the most recent research shows can […]

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We might take it as a given that our hearing aids are hardly noticeable, can be controlled with our smart phones, and can discern between speech and background sound. What we might not realize, however, is that those capabilities are the results of 400 years of research, design, and development. Even 5 years ago, hearing […]

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Picture your life in 2016 with half the stress and double the energy. Who wouldn’t be interested in that? Even though practically everyone aims for improved health, it’s not a secret that the majority of health-related New Year’s resolutions are unsuccessful. We tend to set resolutions that are too difficult or too complicated—all in the […]

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