Exploring new places is one of life’s greatest joys. Whether you’re an avid traveler or planning a one-time adventure, it’s essential to ensure your journey is comfortable and enjoyable, especially if you have hearing loss. Traveling to another state or country with hearing loss might …
10 Facts About Hearing Loss
Do you have any questions about hearing loss? If you’ve been wanting to learn more about your ears and your hearing health, here are 10 facts you might not know about hearing loss. Fact 1: Hearing Loss Is Very Common First of all, hearing loss …
Repairing Relationships After Hearing Loss
While one in eight Americans shows some degree of hearing loss in both ears, the impact of hearing loss extends beyond those living with the condition. People close to us are often bearing their own burden in silence. Experts predict that there will be roughly …
Don’t Let Hearing Loss Dampen the Fun of Summer Parties
With the quarantine years now in the rearview mirror, we are now living with some residue of the era. Our culture shifted fundamentally in some ways that are here to stay, like the work from home movement. We’ve also become a nation more interested in …
How Music Lovers Can Protect Residual Hearing
According to legend Leonard Cohen, “Music is the emotional life of most people.” Whether or not you self-identify as a music lover, it’s difficult to argue with the importance that music plays in the quality of a person’s life. For people with progressive hearing loss …
The Truth About Tinnitus
It feels like the makings of a Black Mirror episode: to hear a continual cacophony without any exterior cause of noise. But that is an example of art imitating life. People who live with tinnitus experience this as reality. Around one in ten Americans have …
Hearing Aids and the Great Outdoors
Summer is a time to take part in your favorite outdoor activities, but you might be worried if your hearing aids can withstand the elements. If you like to go camping, you know that everything is at risk of getting dirty or damp from time …
Why You Should Talk about Hearing at Your Next Physical
Unlike the casual and regular screenings otherwise ordered by your physician or encountered in life maintenance activities like renewing your driver’s license, hearing screenings may be an overlooked part of your ongoing preventative health plan. In a recent survey, Americans revealed that although healthy hearing …
Turning Down the Volume on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
Like the healthy functioning of many systems within the human body, our hearing and its longevity is impacted by a complex orchestra of genetic and environmental factors. The most well-known culprit for acquired hearing loss is aging itself, which wears away at the health of …
Can You Spot the Hearing Loss Myths?
Every year, millions of Americans struggle with challenged hearing. It’s one of the leading chronic health conditions in the country, and yet, a large number of folks go through life undiagnosed and untreated. Despite unprecedented advances in diagnostics and technologies, resulting in futuristic solutions, there …