When it comes to overall health and health considerations, hearing health is often overlooked. While the consequences of smoking on respiratory health are widely acknowledged, the intricate relationship between smoking and hearing loss is a less known connection. Let’s shed some light on the connection …
Brain Exercises for Hearing Health
When it comes to hearing health, it’s not all about the ears. Your brain plays a crucial role in processing sounds, recognizing speech, and making sense of the world around you. Just as physical exercise is vital for maintaining a healthy body, brain exercises can …
Pediatric Hearing Screenings: A Parent’s Guide
When you become a parent, you embark on a wonderful journey filled with love, laughter, and lots of learning. It’s only natural to want the very best for your little one, and that includes ensuring their health and development. One essential part of your child’s …
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 …
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 …
Finding the Courage to Confront Hearing Loss
Millions of Americans live with challenged hearing. It’s a substantial obstacle in our highly verbal society, particularly for people who encounter hearing loss later in life. Despite decades of work by activists and advocates, the hearing loss that typically arrives in old age still remains …
Meditation Techniques for Tinnitus Symptoms
What do The Who, Huey Lewis & the News and Coldplay all have in common? If you guessed that each band has a Grammy, you’re incorrect (The Who have been nominated, but didn’t win). The answer? Each of these musical acts have had a member …
Celebrate World Hearing Day: Ear and Hearing Care for All!
March 3rd is World Hearing Day! Organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), this global campaign advocates for hearing healthcare. Hearing loss is one of the most common health conditions that people experience today. Impacting over 48 million people in the United States alone, hearing loss is …