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The Right Way to Clean Your Ears
Blausen.com staff. "Blausen gallery 2014". That there is a right way to clean your ears implies that there is a wrong way, and for sure, there is a very wrong way. The wrong way is widespread, and it breaches the first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert foreign...
The Surprising Statistics Behind Occupational Hearing Loss
It’s typical to think of hearing loss as an unavoidable problem connected with aging, or, more recently, as a consequence of the younger generation’s regular use of iPods. But the numbers suggest that the larger problem may be direct exposure to loud noise at work. In...
Finding Financial Assistance for Your Hearing Aids
The saying “you get what you pay for” is certainly true of hearing aids, and though modern hearing aids are engineered to be more effective than ever, they’re not exactly cheap, either. The good news is, modern digital hearing aids, while not cheap, ARE becoming more...
When Should I Get My Hearing Tested?
More often than not, people are unaware that they have hearing loss. It forms so slowly that it’s often undetectable, and moreover, the majority of family physicians do not routinely screen for hearing loss at the yearly physical examination. Considering these two...
Understanding Your Treatment Options for Tinnitus
About 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no outside sound source exists. This phantom sound is commonly identified as a ringing sound, but can also materialize as a buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, or clicking. The...
Getting the Most Out of Your Hearing Aid Batteries
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 brief guide, we’ll present to you everything you need to know about hearing aid...
6 Ways to Save Your Hearing
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion individuals are at risk for noise-induced hearing loss, induced by exposure to elevated sound levels from personal audio devices and very loud environments such as nightclubs, bars, concerts, and sporting...
The Psychology of Hearing Loss
If we truly want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional responses to the loss of hearing. In conjunction, the two...
A Short Biography of Raymond Carhart, the “Father of Audiology”
Most people are surprised to learn how young the profession of audiology actually is, and just how recently its founding father established the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, for example, you’d have to go...
Questions to Ask Your Hearing Specialist Before You Buy Hearing Aids
When it’s time to purchase a car, most of us know exactly what to do. We complete some research, compare options, and compile a list of questions to ask the dealership. We work on this so that by the time we’re set to visit the dealership, we have an idea of what...