Hearing Health Blog

Nearly 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no external sound source exists. This phantom sound is normally identified as a ringing sound, but can also materialize as a buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, or clicking. First it is important to know about tinnitus is that it’s a symptom, not […]

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Zinc-air-battery-types by Marc Andressen is licensed under Attribution CC 2.0 You could make a strong case that the most critical component of your hearing aid is the battery: without it, nothing else works, and if it fails, your hearing fails with it. In this quick guide, we’ll teach you everything you need to know about […]

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The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion people are at an increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss, caused by exposure to substantial sound levels from personal audio devices and very loud environments such as clubs, bars, concerts, and sporting events. An estimated 26 million Americans already suffer from the condition. If noise-induced hearing loss […]

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If we seriously want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively challenging, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional reactions to the loss of hearing. Together, the two sides of hearing loss can wreak havoc on a person’s total well being, as the physical […]

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Many people are surprised to hear how young the field of audiology actually is, and how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you wished to find the founding father of biology, as an example, you’d have to go back in time by 2,300 years and read the The […]

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When it’s time to purchase a car, most of us know exactly what to do. We complete some research, evaluate options, and compose a list of questions to ask the dealership. We do this so that by the time we’re ready to stop by the dealership, we have an idea of what we’re looking for […]

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You’ve likely heard that today’s hearing aids are “not your grandfather’s hearing aids,” or that hearing aid technology is light-years ahead of where it used to be, even as recently as 5 to 10 years ago. But what makes today’s technology so much better? And what exactly can modern-day hearing aids achieve that couldn’t be […]

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Sometimes, it seems like we love to deceive ourselves. Wikipedia has an article named “List of common misconceptions” that consists of hundreds of widely-held but false beliefs. Yes, I understand it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the web page and you’ll see approximately 385 references to credible sources. For example, did […]

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How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test You’ve just concluded your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now coming into the room and presents you with a graph, like the one above, except that it has all of these icons, colors, and lines. This is intended to explain to you the exact, mathematically […]

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We don’t need to explain to you the signs and symptoms of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a very different type of challenge: persuading someone you care about to get their hearing assessed and treated. But just how are you supposed to get through to someone who denies there […]

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