September 5, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Isn’t pizza fascinating? As long as a few factors are met, you can change toppings, cheese, and sauce, and it’s still a pizza. Hearing loss is similar. Symptoms and presentations are caused by a number of different problems, loud noises, genetic factors, age, or ear obstructions, but as long as you have difficulty hearing sounds, […]
September 1, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
What’s the link between hearing loss and cognitive decline? Medical science has found a connection between brain health and hearing loss. It was discovered that even minor neglected hearing loss increases your risk of developing dementia. These two seemingly unconnected health disorders might have a pathological link. So how can a hearing test help reduce […]
August 25, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Does the ringing in your ears get worse at night? It’s a common complaint for people with tinnitus but why does it happen and what can you do about it? […]
August 15, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
There are a couple of kinds of vacations, right? There’s the kind where you jam every single recreation you can into every waking moment. This type will leave you more tired than when you left but all of the fun will be remembered for many years to come. The other kind is all about unwinding. […]
August 7, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Tom is excited, he’s getting a new knee! Look, as you get older, the kinds of things you get excited about change. He will be able to move moving around more freely and will experience less pain with this knee replacement. So Tom goes in, the operation is a success, and Tom heads home! But […]
August 2, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Movies and TV shows tend to use close-ups (often extreme close-ups) when the action begins getting really intense. This is because more information than you’re likely even consciously aware of is communicated by the human face. To say that humans are really facially focused is, well, not a stretch. So having all of your chief […]
July 25, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
It’s difficult to be apart from your hearing aid once you get accustomed to using one. Your hearing aids are, after all, your link to the world around you. But just like all technology, though, it will have to be upgraded eventually. A hearing aid’s average lifespan From 3 to 7 years will be the […]
July 18, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
It isn’t like you simply wake up one day, and your hearing is gone. Hearing loss, especially when it’s related to aging, usually progresses in degrees. You may not recognize it’s happening right away but some signs do appear earlier. These early developing symptoms advance very subtly. Slowing down the progression of hearing loss and […]
July 10, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
You Know when you’re viewing an action movie and the hero has a thunderous explosion nearby and their ears begin to ring? Well, guess what: that probably means our hero suffered at least a minor traumatic brain injury! To be sure, brain injuries aren’t the part that most action movies focus on. But that high-pitched […]
July 4, 2023 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
You’ve watched the videos on TikTok. Babies, after they just get fitted for hearing aids, hearing their mother’s voice for the first time. In some videos, the baby is uncertain initially. When the doctor attempts to put the hearing aid in their ears, they fight against it. Before they smile with joy, they might cry […]