Until recently, if you wanted to be treated for hearing loss or get hearing aids, you had one choice — see an audiologist or other licensed hearing care professional. Today, your options have gotten more complicated, with online-only retailers, big-box stores and, starting soon, over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids you can buy at places like Walgreens and CVS. Here’s the thing, though — seeing a hearing professional is still the best way to be treated for hearing ...
Some people that have ringing in their ears just seem to be able to ignore it…While others cannot even function because of it. Everyone is different. Ringing or various noises in your ears can be hard to live with. Many times, it comes and goes...at the same time it can be constant. It is estimated that over 50 million American’s live with tinnitus or ringing in the ear. It can come on ...
If your hearing instruments are over 2 years old there has been huge advancements in sound reproduction and the control of speech weighted background noise... aka crowd noise…aka… restaurant noise…aka…clubhouse noise. Often, I am asked how long should hearing instruments last? How do I know if I should replace them? An average lifespan of hearing instruments is 4-6 years. Many conditions or obstacles can change this number. If the hearing instruments that ...
Everyone has their reasons for why they do certain things. Big things, like why they follow a particular career path or live in a specific city. And small, like what they’re going to have for dinner or wear to work today. Most times, the reasons are numerous and nuanced. Other times, it’s a single, simple reason that triggers the decision — like that they have chicken they need to use before it goes bad ...
In 1927, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) designated the month of May as Better Hearing and Speech Month. Their goal at the time was to raise awareness about speech and hearing challenges and — more importantly — encourage people to take action and treat their own hearing and speech problems. That mission is just as important today as it was then. Maybe more so. One reason why? Because if the past two years have taught us anything ...
Our Veterans have undergone more stress and traumatic experiences than most of us can even fathom. Many suffer from PTSD. Due to the noise exposure of the being in the military most of our veterans will have developed some type of hearing loss. Tinnitus or ringing/head noises may also accompany our veterans. In fact, the traumatic event yields a person 2 times more likely to have tinnitus induced as a result. Veterans who suffer ...
Hearing loss can happen suddenly, due to an illness or an injury. Usually though… hearing loss often sneaks up on us. Slowly we start to misunderstand a few things. We may find ourselves in little spats with others that they are insisting they told us something and we swear they did not. This lack of remembering can be a byproduct of not hearing or completely understanding what was said to us. After all, you cannot ...
How is your health? Are you mobile… moving around and getting a little exercise? Feel pretty good? Hopefully, your life is full of fun activities. As we age; many people will develop more than one health that they must deal with. There is a name for this…. Comorbidity. What is it? It is the simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases at the same time. For example, people with bipolar disorder are very likely to also ...
Have you ever noticed that if something happens to our body that we are able to just “adapt?” If you hurt your knee, then your hip and ankle help you to walk and to shift the pain. If you hurt your wrist, then your fingers might have to hold a pen a little differently to write comfortable. It is often thought that when one of our senses diminishes that one of our other senses can ...
Hearing aids are designed to be a large part of our daily lives and should be one of the first things on your packing list when it is time for a trip. Whether you are traveling for work or for fun, it is important to have a few tricks in mind when you travel with your hearing aids to ensure they are always in peak working condition and you never miss a thing! Power is ...
