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Why Choose a Local Hearing Care Provider?
The hearing healthcare industry has two barriers that prevent individuals from obtaining better hearing: The inability to recognize hearing loss in the first place (due to its gradual onset), and The temptation to find a quick, easy, and inexpensive remedy....
The Right Way to Clean Your Ears
Blausen.com staff. "Blausen gallery 2014". That there is a right way to clean your ears implies that there is a wrong way, and undoubtedly, there is a very wrong way. The wrong way is widespread, and it breaches the very first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert...
The Surprising Statistics Behind Occupational Hearing Loss
It’s typical to think of hearing loss as an inevitable problem associated with aging, or, more recently, as a consequence of the younger generation’s routine use of iPods. But the numbers show that the bigger problem may be direct exposure to loud noise at work. In...
Finding Financial Assistance for Your Hearing Aids
The saying “you get what you pay for” is certainly true of hearing aids, and although present day hearing aids are engineered to be more effective than ever, they’re not exactly inexpensive, either. Fortunately, modern digital hearing aids, while not cheap, ARE...
When Should I Get My Hearing Tested?
In most cases, people are unaware that they have hearing loss. It occurs so gradually that it’s commonly undetectable, and on top of that, most family physicians do not routinely screen for hearing loss at the annual physical exam. Taking into account these two facts,...
Understanding Your Treatment Options for Tinnitus
Roughly 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no external sound source exists. This phantom sound is normally perceived as a ringing sound, but can also materialize as a buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, or clicking....
Getting the Most Out of Your Hearing Aid Batteries
Zinc-air-battery-types by Marc Andressen is licensed under Attribution CC 2.0 You could make a strong case that the most crucial part of your hearing aid is the battery: without it, nothing else works, and if it fails, your hearing fails with it. In this short guide,...
6 Ways to Save Your Hearing
The World Health Organization reports that 1.1 billion people are at an increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss, brought about by exposure to excessive sound levels from personal mp3 devices and noisy environments such as nightclubs, bars, concerts, and sporting...
The Psychology of Hearing Loss
If we really want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively more difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional responses to the loss of hearing. In conjunction, the...
A Short Biography of Raymond Carhart, the “Father of Audiology”
Most people are surprised to learn how young the field of audiology actually is, and just how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, for instance, you’d have to go back in...