AND....here we are in LOCKDOWN! So why? What does this really mean for you? What does it mean for business’s ...whether they are “non-essential” or “essential?” What a term. Everyone thinks they are essential. Personally, I think everyone is essential. Not just businesses but also personally. If you break down the numbers....small businesses in our country provide jobs and income for 58.9 million people. How many small businesses are there in ...
An analysis of data from the National Health Interview Survey found that, over an eight year period (2007 – 2015), people who reported that they had “a lot of trouble” hearing ended up being twice as likely to have an accidental injury — both at work and leisure — as people who reported no trouble hearing. While the study didn’t dig into what it was about hearing loss that led to these higher numbers, experts suspect the ...
Our area is no stranger to the prep work of hunkering down for a hurricane. But this nasty virus is a horse of another color. During a hurricane everyone is hustling and bustling around and sharing storm tracks and ice. When you are standing in line pumping gas or getting ice...you still feel connected to others in your general area. There is camaraderie. There are smiles. But a hurricane is a storm. In our ...
Please remember to clean your hearing aids. COVID-19 can stay on the plastics for up to 3 days. In this situation; you can wipe them down with rubbing alcohol on a paper towel or the alcohol wipes. While we don’t recommend long term use of rubbing alcohol on your hearing instruments due to the drying nature to the alcohol... a month of this practice is not going to hurt anything. We also carry a ...
Recruitment usually occurs within a certain area of the patients hearing loss. You may be able to crank up the music with no issue but then someone simply raising their voice just a tad too loud makes you cringe. How many times have you told your wife that she didn’t need to yell at you? Each time she said something to you she got a little bit louder because you didn’t answer her ...
The National Safety Council’s Safety + Health magazine recently published an article about ototoxicants, chemicals that can cause hearing loss and balance issues. In the article, warnings were shared from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about which industries have higher exposure risks to these chemicals — and how the adverse effects of ototoxicants increases when “workers are exposed to elevated noise levels.” One type of hearing loss OSHA notes as “especially hazardous” is speech ...
Does this sound familiar? Either you or someone you know is just starting to deal with hearing loss. But instead of taking it seriously, you brush it aside. You can cope, you’ve decided. You’ll just turn the TV up a little louder. Ask people to speak up or repeat what they said. And really, the quiet can be kind of nice, right? “Why should I treat it,” you wonder? Should you treat or ...
One of the first things people with hearing loss observe is “I hear people fine, but I don’t understand what they are saying.” This is a consistent complaint of individuals who are experiencing the effects of a “sloping high frequency hearing loss." What’s happening and why do so many have this complaint? Hearing loss involves not only our ears, but also our brain: where sound waves are coded by the ears and then ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 50 million Americans experience tinnitus. That’s over 15 percent of the U.S. population, or nearly one in every six of us. So what is this condition that affects so many people — and what can tinnitus sufferers do about it? We cover the basics here. 1. What is tinnitus? Tinnitus is the medical term for the sensation of hearing sound in your ears when ...
Research by Johns Hopkins and other institutions have linked cognitive decline and even dementia to hearing loss for reasons you can read about here. One study found that older adults with hearing loss experience a 30-40 percent faster decline in cognitive abilities than peers with normal hearing. But a 25-year-long study published in 2015 found that hearing aid use reduced the risk of cognitive decline associated with hearing loss. Researchers also reported that treating hearing ...
