HEARING TIPS
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....
Preventing work related hearing loss with high fidelity, custom-fit ear plugs
It’s pretty easy to get hearing loss. It takes just 85 decibels in fact. The sound level reached by a rock concert is 100 decibels: not the best news for musicians or concert goers. There are several other sources of hearing damage. Here are some typical decibel...
A Brief History of Hearing Aids
Check out this article in which we’ll examine the evolution of hearing aids throughout three distinct periods and levels of technology in history. Today, millions of people benefit from the use of state of the art hearing aids, but it wasn't always that way. While now...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Hearing Aids
All the greatest inventors had their motivations when it came to hearing aid technology. Just look at Alexander Graham Bell. Did you know his mom suffered from hearing loss and his wife was deaf? It’s true. This spurred him on to do more research in the field of...
How Ibuprofen can Lead to Hearing Loss
Pain medication can be hurting your hearing. Today we have firm evidence that ibuprofen, a common pain relief medication, can increase incidents of hearing loss in people as they age. As such, you may want to avoid certain medications in an effort to protect your...
How Hearing Loss Can Affect Your Holiday Gatherings
The holiday season is here again, giving millions of people the opportunity to come together to have a great time with one another. Unfortunately, this comes with complications for people who have hearing loss or impairment. While you may think that they are perfectly...