Hearing Health Blog

As your body ages, it isn’t difficult to notice the changes. Your skin starts to get some wrinkles. Your hair turns gray (or falls out). Your joints begin to stiffen. Some drooping of the skin starts to occur in certain places. Perhaps you start to detect some fading of your hearing and eyesight. It’s pretty […]

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Determining hearing loss is more technical than it may at first seem. If you’re suffering from hearing loss, you can probably hear certain things clearly at a lower volume, but not others. You may confuse particular letters like “S” or “B”, but hear other letters just fine at whatever volume. When you figure out how […]

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Just picture for a minute you’re a salesperson. Now picture that you have a call scheduled today with a really important client. Numerous agents from their offices have come together to discuss whether to employ your company for the job. All of the various voices get a bit jumbled and hard to comprehend. But you’re […]

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Pizza is an interesting thing. As long as a few criteria are met, you can switch toppings, cheese, and sauce, and it’s still a pizza. Hearing loss is a lot like that. Symptoms and manifestations are caused by many different issues, loud noises, genetics, age, or ear obstructions, but as long as you have difficulty […]

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Cognitive decline and hearing loss, what’s the connection? Brain health and hearing loss have a connection which medical science is beginning to understand. Your risk of developing dementia is higher with even minor hearing loss, as it turns out. Experts think that there might be a pathological connection between these two seemingly unrelated health problems. […]

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If you are one of the millions of people in the U.S. suffering from a medical disorder known as tinnitus then you most likely know that it tends to get worse when you are trying to fall asleep. But why should this be? The ringing or buzzing in one or both ears is not an […]

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Aren’t there a couple of types of vacation? One type is Packed with activities the whole time. This type will leave you more exhausted than when you left but all of the fun will be remembered for years to come. The other kind is all about relaxing. You might not even do much of anything […]

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Tom is getting a new knee and he’s really jazzed! Look, as you grow older, the types of things you look forward to change. He will be capable of moving around more freely and will have less pain with his new knee. So Tom is admitted, the operation is a success, and Tom goes home! […]

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You’ve probably noticed that when movies or TV shows get really intense, they start using close-ups (perhaps even extreme close-ups). This is because more information than you’re likely even consciously aware of is communicated by the human face. To say that human beings are very facially focused is, well, not a stretch. So having all […]

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Once you get accustomed to your hearing aid, it’s hard to go without it. Your hearing aids are, after all, your link to the world around you. But just like any technology, though, it will have to be upgraded eventually. A hearing aid’s typical lifespan A hearing aid will usually last 3 to 7 years. […]

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