Hearing Health Blog

Many aspects of your day-to-day life can be affected by Hearing Loss. Your pastimes, your professional life, and even your love life can be impacted by hearing loss, for instance. For couples who are struggling with hearing loss, communication can become strained. This can cause increased stress, more disputes, and even the development of animosity. […]

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Why is it essential to have your hearing screened regularly? Well, the truth is that hearing loss can have significant and long-term effects on your overall health. Having your hearing assessed regularly can help you identify hearing loss early, get care sooner, and, improve your health, wellness, and quality of life. Getting a hearing test […]

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Physically, you will normally get several years out of your hearing aids, but as your degree of hearing loss changes, your hearing aids could need an upgrade. Getting routine hearing evaluations is key to making sure your hearing aids are programmed and fit properly. Assuming appropriate programming and fitting, here’s a guide for their longevity. […]

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Your workplace has decided to encourage teamwork and cooperation by opening up the office floor plan. But this new setup has become challenging for you. It’s because the elevated noise is making it hard to follow along with conversation and not because you miss the privacy of cubical walls. The inability to follow conversations in […]

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It’s normal to want to understand the side effects of a medication when you start taking it. Can it give you a stomach ache? Will it dehydrate you? Make you sleepy? There may also be a more severe potential side effect that you may not think of – hearing loss. Ototoxicity is the medical term […]

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Muffled hearing can present for a large number of reasons. In most cases, this situation is short-term. In other instances, muffled hearing can be a harbinger of more significant hearing-related problems. That’s because, in general, hearing loss is a gradually developing condition. Symptoms develop slowly and over time. In many cases, one of the first […]

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These days, the cellular phone network is much more reliable (and there’s a lot less static involved). But in some cases, it will still be difficult to hear what the individual on the other end is saying. And for people who have hearing loss, it can be particularly difficult. There must be a simple solution […]

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It probably seems like a simple thing to care for your hearing aids. When you first got your hearing aids, you probably got a set of care instructions, after all. With regard to regular hearing aid maintenance, most hearing specialists will give you a step-by-step instruction tutorial. But it’s very likely that you might forget […]

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Does hearing loss worsen as you age? Hearing loss is one of the most common conditions impacting all adults as they age, but it is a gradual process. Half of people over the age of 75 have trouble with their hearing, as a matter of fact. Presbycusis Presbycusis is defined as age-related hearing loss or […]

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Sleepless nights aren’t any fun. Especially when it happens regularly. You lie awake tossing and turning, looking at the time over and over, and stressing about how tired you will be tomorrow. When these kinds of sleepless nights persistently occur, medical professionals tend to use the label “insomnia”. With insomnia, the negatives of not sleeping […]

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