HEARING TIPS
The Digital Advantage: Analog Vs. Digital Hearing Aids
You’ve more than likely been told 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 technologies so much...
The Top 5 Hearing Aid Myths Exposed
Sometimes, it seems as if we prefer to deceive ourselves. Wikipedia has an page called “List of common misconceptions” that includes hundreds of widely-held but false beliefs. Yes, I understand it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the page and you’ll...
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 characters, colors, and lines. This is intended to explain to you the exact, mathematically...
How to Persuade Someone to Get a Hearing Test
We don’t need to tell you the signs of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a completely different kind of challenge: persuading someone you care for to get their hearing screened and treated. But how are you expected to get through to someone...
5 Reasons Why People Deny Hearing Loss
It takes the average person with hearing loss 5 to 7 years before getting a qualified professional diagnosis, despite the reality that the warning signs of hearing loss are clear to others. But are those with hearing loss merely too stubborn to get help? No, actually,...
What to Expect at Your Hearing Exam
If the unknown triggers anxiety, then a trip to the audiologist can be stressful. While virtually all of us have experience with the family doctor and the town dentist, the trip to the hearing specialist might be a first. It certainly would be nice to have someone...
Exploring a Career in the Hearing Care Profession
Even though many of us remain current with our annual physical, dental cleaning, and eye examination, we notoriously forget to consider the well-being of our hearing. And when our hearing does start to weaken, it appears so gradually that we scarcely notice and...
Avoiding the Biggest Mistake in Treating Your Hearing Loss
Do you recall the Q-Ray Bracelets? You know, the magnetized bracelets that promised to offer immediate and substantial pain relief from arthritis and other chronic diseases? Well, you won’t find much of that marketing anymore; in 2008, the producers of the Q-Ray...
8 Reasons Hearing Loss is More Dangerous Than You Think
Hearing damage is dangerously sneaky. It creeps up on a person over the years so little by little you barely notice, making it easy to deny or ignore. And then, when you finally recognize the signs and symptoms, you shrug it off as troublesome and aggravating due to...
Professional musicians at greater risk of developing hearing loss
Were you born to rock? That’s great – it’s a fun life. But you must take precautions for your ears! Rock shows are literally ear-splittingly loud, and continued unprotected exposure can cause some considerable harm, which several popular musicians know all too well....