HEARING TIPS
Essentials of Sound Therapy for Hearing Loss and Other Conditions
Sound in an extraordinary thing. It impacts our emotions and well-being in numerous ways - both positive and negative. Listening to music can be calming and enjoyable, but it can also be stressful and irritating if the volume is too loud. Everyone has a different...
Figuring Out the Connections Between Hearing Loss, Dementia and Decline in Cognitive Function
If you have some type of hearing loss, do you ever find that listening to people talk is work, and that you need to try really hard to understand what people say? You are not alone. The feeling that listening and understanding is demanding work is common among people...
What’s New in Hearing Research – Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration
Many of the conditions that cause hearing problems for our patients cannot be reversed which is quite frustrating for our hearing specialists. One of the main causes of hearing loss, for example, is damage to the tiny hair cells in our inner ears that vibrate in...
Answers to Your Questions about Using a Hearing Aid in a Loud Situation
A common question asked by customers being fitted for hearing aids concerns whether the hearing aids which are made to help them hear faint sounds will make the loud noises too loud for their ears.This is a normal question, one for which there is thankfully a...
How is Hearing Loss Classified?
Hearing loss may take many different forms and occur as the result of a number of causes, and to fully understand them you need to understand the way in which we hear. Along with the eardrum and the ear canal, the outer ear is the section of the ear on the outside of...
What You Should Expect from Your Hearing Aid Batteries
Although it might seem to be a simple question to ask just how long hearing aid batteries should be expected to last, it isn't. Precisely how long hearing aid batteries last depends on quite a few factors. One consideration is the manufacturer of the hearing aid....
Are You Experiencing Difficulty Hearing Female Voices?
For anyone who is finding it more difficult to hear female voices or kid's voices than to hear male voices, it could be an indication that you have suffered some amount of high-frequency hearing loss. Women's and children's voices have a higher frequency than men's...
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy – Quick Overview
Tinnitus is widespread in the United States with approximately 50 million sufferers over age 50. People who suffer from tinnitus hear constant sounds that no one around them can hear. These sounds range from high-pitched ringing or whistling sounds, buzzing, or rapid...
Choosing Between One Hearing Aid or Two
"Should I use 1 or 2 hearing aids?" This is a rather common question originating from the fact that hearing aids are a significant financial investment.The advice given by nearly all audiologists and hearing industry professionals is going to be that the advantages of...
Picking a Cell Phone that Works Well with Your Hearing Aid
In the past, the complex electronics of mobile phones often interacted poorly with the electronics of hearing aids, resulting in interference between the two devices that was perceived as static, screeching or whistling noises, or missing words. Fortunately,...