It’s true, hearing loss can sneak up on you. But occasionally, hearing problems bypass the sneaking completely, in favor of a sudden (and often startling), cat-like pounce. It could happen like this: you get up, pull yourself out of bed, and maybe you don’t notice until you finish showering but your hearing feels…off, or different […]
You learn to adjust to living with tinnitus. In order to tune out the constant ringing, you always keep the TV on. You avoid going out for happy hour with coworkers because the loud music at the bar makes your tinnitus worse for days. You make appointments regularly to try out new therapies and new […]
Want to show how much you care? Really listen when your loved ones talk to you. But you need to be able to hear in order to really listen. Research shows one out of three adults between the ages of 65 and 74 is coping with hearing loss and millions would benefit from wearing a […]
You’re supposed to use your hearing aids every day. But you’re also supposed to rinse out your milk containers before recycling them. We don’t always do what we’re supposed to. So yeah, you forget to take your hearing aids out of their storage container once in a while. Perhaps you even go a day, or […]
The human body is an awesome, beautiful, confusing, confounding construction, isn’t it? The human body generally has no issue healing cuts, scrapes, or broken bones (I mean, sure, it takes a while, but your body can literally repair the giant bones in your legs and arms with little more than some time and a splint). […]
If you’ve got hearing aids, you should be able to hear, right? When they aren’t working correctly, it can be thoroughly infuriating, it’s a real “You had ONE job” situation. Luckily, your hearing aids should have no issue doing their job if you take proper care of them. Consider this list before you do anything […]
With chronic tinnitus, it’s not the ringing in your ears that’s the real issue. The real issue is that the ringing doesn’t stop. At first, this may be a mild noise that’s not much more than a little irritating. But after a day or a week or a month, that buzzing or ringing can become […]
Researchers at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may have cracked the code on one of hearing’s most bewildering mysteries, and the insight could lead to the overhauling of the design of future hearing aids. Findings from an MIT study debunked the belief that neural processing is what lets us single out voices. According […]
It seems as if all our devices are getting smarter, stronger, and smaller. In general, the trend is that devices do more and take up less space. Hearing aids are no exception, and it’s not surprising. The world’s population is getting older and hearing problems, though they can have a variety of causes, are more […]
The phrase “Music to my ears” may soon have a very different meaning for people who have hearing impairment. Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the University College London analyzed the effects of musical experiences on hearing loss in children and the results of the study illustrated the impact and benefit obtained by exposing […]