September 30, 2013 | Contra Costa Hearing Aid Center
Eat your carrots for good eye sight, is likely a bit of advice most of us were told as children. Most likely you weren’t given any comparable recommendations about what foods were beneficial to your ears. We can finally tell our children what to eat for good hearing; advice that’s undoubtedly wise for us to […]
September 24, 2013 | Contra Costa Hearing Aid Center
Having problems hearing? Probably the most typical reason for temporary hearing loss is an accumulation of ear wax in the ear canal. If you’re fairly confident that ear wax is the source of your short-term hearing loss, you probably want to clean out your ears. Even though this is a normal desire, it is vital […]
September 15, 2013 | Contra Costa Hearing Aid Center
Central Auditory Processing Disorder, or CAPD, is a challenging disorder to diagnose correctly for a variety of reasons. The condition is not because the youngsters can’t hear words being spoken to them, but because their brains have an inability to interpret the words and understand their meaning, which implies that conventional hearing tests don’t consistently […]
Are you worried about hearing damage from excessive noise levels at work? Noise-induced hearing loss is the single most common cause of hearing loss. Being concerned about your hearing is a normal response for anyone working at a high-noise profession.The Centers for Disease Control reports that 30 million workers are exposed to harmful noise on […]
The eardrum serves two vital functions: naturally, it vibrates when it senses sound wavesand is thus a fundamental part of hearing, but it also works as a barrier to guard the hypersensitive inner ear from infection. Your inner ear is basically a safe, sterile environment when your eardrum is undamaged, but if it is ruptured […]
Vertigo – the perception of movement where the individual or the individual’s surroundings seem to whirl about – is, for most people an undesirable event. The feelings of vertigo occasionally include spinning or falling sensations and dizziness. When vertigo impacts balance, it may lead to falls and accidental injuries – especially in the elderly. More […]
One of the things you can expect if you have kids is that at some point they will ask you to get them some headphones to use with their music players, computers, and gaming systems. There are valid reasons for this, because headphones can enhance the experience with these multimedia, but at the same time […]
Sadly, the “speech banana” isn’t a super fruit that enhances hearing nor is it a reference to the old joke that goes, “Speak up…I can’t hear you…I’ve got a banana in my ear.” What the “speech banana” refers to is a particular pattern shown in the results of an audiogram, which is a graphical representation […]
America has a strong history of gun use, based somewhat on the movies and television programs we knew as a kids, which depicted pictures of policemen and cowboys firing guns pretty much all the time. These images seem to have made a lasting impression, because millions of people still delight in firing guns, either at […]
Do you have hearing difficulties? If yes, do you sometimes find that it seems like work just to understand what the people near you are saying? You are not the only one. The sensation that listening and understanding is taxing work is typical among individuals with hearing impairment – even the ones that use hearing […]
