The ironic part of hearing loss is that we don’t seem to start appreciating our favorite sounds until after we’ve lost the capability to clearly hear them. We don’t stop to contemplate, for instance, how much we enjoy a good conversation with a close friend until we have to persistently ask them to repeat themselves. […]
The hearing healthcare industry has two barriers that prevent individuals from obtaining better hearing: The inability to notice hearing loss in the first place (owing to its gradual onset), and The temptation to find a quick, easy, and inexpensive remedy. Unfortunately, numerous people who have overcome the first barrier have been lured into the allegedly […]
Blausen.com staff. “Blausen gallery 2014”. That there is a right way to clean your ears proposes that there is a wrong way, and indeed, there is a very wrong way. The wrong way is customary, and it breaks the very first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert foreign objects into your ear canal. That […]
Zinc-air-battery-types by Marc Andressen is licensed under Attribution CC 2.0 You could make a strong case that the most vital component of your hearing aid is the battery: without it, nothing else works, and if it fails, your hearing fails with it. In this short guide, we’ll explain to you everything you need to know […]
The World Health Organization reports that 1.1 billion people are at an increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss, generated by exposure to excessive sound levels from personal mp3 devices and very loud settings such as clubs, bars, concerts, and sporting events. An projected 26 million Americans currently suffer from the condition. If noise-induced hearing loss […]
If we really want to understand hearing loss, we have to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively more difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional reactions to the loss of hearing. Jointly, the two sides of hearing loss can wreak havoc on a person’s quality of life, as the […]
Many people are surprised to discover how young the discipline of audiology actually is, and how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, as an example, you’d have to go back in time by 2,300 years and read the The […]
At times, it seems as if we love to mislead ourselves. Wikipedia has an entry named “List of common misconceptions” that includes hundreds of widely-held but false beliefs. Yes, I know it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the page and you’ll notice around 385 references to credible sources. As an example, […]
It takes the average person with hearing loss 5 to 7 years before getting a qualified professional diagnosis, despite the fact that the signs and symptoms of hearing loss are transparent to others. But are those with hearing loss merely too stubborn to get help? No, actually, and for a couple of specific reasons. Maybe […]
Even though the majority of us stay current with our yearly physical, dental cleaning, and eye exam, we usually forget to take into account the health of our hearing. And when our hearing does start to worsen, it appears so slowly that we scarcely notice and fail to take action. It’s this lack of interaction […]
