Hearing Health Blog

The hearing healthcare industry has two barriers that prevent individuals from achieving better hearing: The inability to recognize hearing loss in the first place (due to its slow onset), and The temptation to find a quick, easy, and inexpensive fix. Unfortunately, numerous people who have overcome the first barrier have been lured into the purportedly […]

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Blausen.com staff. “Blausen gallery 2014”. That there is a right way to clean your ears implies that there is a wrong way, and in fact, there is a very wrong way. The wrong way is common, and it breaks the first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert foreign objects into your ear canal. That […]

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It’s common to think of hearing loss as an unavoidable problem connected with aging, or, more recently, as a consequence of the younger generation’s routine use of iPods. But the numbers indicate that the larger problem may be direct exposure to loud noise at work. In the US, 22 million workers are subjected to potentially […]

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The saying “you get what you pay for” is definitely true of hearing aids, and though modern-day hearing aids are designed to be more effective than ever, they’re not exactly cheap, either. Luckily, modern digital hearing aids, while not cheap, ARE becoming more inexpensive, in the same manner that the majority of consumer electronics are […]

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Most of the time, people are unaware that they have hearing loss. It forms so slowly that it’s commonly undetectable, and on top of that, the majority of family doctors do not consistently test for hearing loss at the yearly physical exam. Bearing in mind these two facts, it’s no surprise that most people first […]

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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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