Hearing Health Blog

As your body ages, it isn’t difficult to notice the changes. You get wrinkles. Your hair turns gray (or falls out). Your knees begin to hurt a little bit more. Some sagging of the skin starts to happen in certain places. Perhaps your eyesight and your hearing both start to diminish a little. It’s pretty […]

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It might seem, at first, like measuring hearing loss would be simple. You can most likely hear certain things clearly at lower volumes but not others. Most letters might sound clear at high or low volumes but others, such as “s” and “b” may get lost. When you learn how to understand your hearing test […]

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Just picture for a minute you’re a salesperson. Now imagine that you have a call scheduled today with a very important client. Multiple agents from their offices have come together to discuss whether to hire your company for the job. As the call proceeds, voices go up and down…and are sometimes hard to hear. But […]

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Pizza is a fascinating thing. You can adjust the toppings, sauces, even the cheeses on it, but as long as it satisfies a few basic factors, it’s still a pizza. That’s a lot like hearing loss. Symptoms and presentations are caused by a number of different problems, loud noises, genetic factors, age, or ear blockages, […]

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

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Tinnitus often gets worse at night for the majority of the millions of individuals in the US that suffer with it. But why would this be? The ringing is a phantom sound due to some medical condition like hearing loss, it isn’t an external sound. But none of that information can give an explanation as […]

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There are two types of vacations, right? One type is Packed with activities at all times. These are the trips that are remembered for years later and are packed with adventure, and you go back to work more tired than you left. Then there are the relaxing types of vacations. These are the trips where […]

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Tom is excited, he’s getting a new knee! Hey, the things you get excited about change as you age. His knee replacement means he will feel less pain and be able to get out and about a lot better. So the surgery is successful and Tom heads home. But that’s not the end of it. […]

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TV shows and movies tend to utilize close-ups (often extreme close-ups) when the action starts getting really intense. That’s because the human face conveys a lot of information (more information than you’re probably consciously aware of). It’s no stretch to say that human beings are very facially centered. So it’s no surprise that the face […]

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

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