When Should I Carry a Hearing Aid Maintenance Kit?
Hearing aids significantly enhance personal well-being and daily communication. However, regular maintenance and cleaning are necessary to ensure they function at their best. Having a ready-to-use maintenance kit in various locations can help you take care of your investment effectively. What Does a Maintenance Kit Include? If you don’t already own a hearing aid maintenance…
How to Enjoy Holiday Dinners With Hearing Loss
Whether you’re partial to main dishes or sides, holiday dinners are a delicious way to enjoy time with friends and family. For those with hearing loss, large dinners can turn into stressful experiences. Busy and crowded tables, complete with background music and tall flowers, can make understanding communication with hearing loss exceedingly tricky. With some…
Using Hearing Aids to Improve Your Home Life
Approximately 15% of U.S. adults report some trouble hearing. Hearing loss can result from aging, loud noise exposure, physical trauma, illness and more. Whether your hearing loss is new or you have been living with it for years, you may experience adverse effects in all areas of your life, including inside your home. Let’s take…
Using Your Hearing Aids to Increase Your Safety
Approximately 15% of U.S. adults report some trouble hearing. Hearing loss impacts many parts of your life, including your safety. We often rely on our ears to convey important safety information we may otherwise miss. Hearing loss can obstruct your ability to perceive these auditory safety cues. Choosing to begin hearing loss treatment opens you…
Common Misconceptions About Hearing Loss
Treating hearing loss is an important step towards prioritizing your health and well-being. Unfortunately, misconceptions about hearing loss and hearing aids can often prevent people from getting the help that they need. How Many People Treat Their Hearing Loss? Only a fraction of people who would benefit from hearing aids actually use them. According to statistics…
Common Hearing Aid Problems and Their Solutions
Hearing aids help you understand speech sounds and prioritize background noise. They can be a great addition to your life. Data from the MarkeTrak 2022 survey found that most hearing aid users report quality-of-life benefits from their hearing aids. While hearing aids provide many benefits, acclimating to them isn’t always easy. Knowing the common problems…
What is Unilateral Hearing Loss?
What is Single Sided Deafness? Sometimes referred to as unilateral hearing loss, single sided deafness is a condition in which an individual experiences hearing loss in only one ear but can hear normally out of the other ear. While most patients with a hearing impairment suffer from bilateral (two-sided) hearing loss, SSD affects approximately 60,000…
What is Sudden Hearing Loss?
For most people who experience hearing loss, the condition comes on gradually over a period of years. In rare cases, an abrupt loss of hearing occurs with little or no warning. This condition is known as sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL). What is Sudden Deafness? Sudden deafness is an unexplained and rapid hearing loss that…
What is Noise Induced Hearing Loss?
How Can Sounds Hurt Your Ears? Background sound is a constant in our busy lives. Normally, background noises are at safe levels that do not negatively impact our hearing. But repeated exposure to noise above 85 decibels (dB) can cause noise induced hearing loss. The louder the sound, the less amount of time it takes…
Acupuncture for Hearing Loss & Tinnitus: Does it Really Work?
About 48 million Americans have some form of hearing loss, and even more have tinnitus, the ringing, or hissing that is heard only by the person with the condition. The most common hearing loss treatment is wearing hearing aids, which help you hear all the sounds around you. But that hasn’t stopped some people trying…