Every day, millions of Americans live with tinnitus. They live with the ringing and the frustration which can often take a toll on health and wellbeing. Tinnitus is considered one of the most common health conditions in the United States. With no known cure, researchers and sufferers are equally eager to find the source of the condition… Continue reading Inflammation May Be Causing Your Tinnitus
How Pursuing Treatment For Hearing loss Can Change Your Daily Life
For more than 48 million Americans, hearing loss can cause a significant impact on their day to day activities, reducing their quality of life in more ways than just their hearing ability. With studies linking hearing damage to social isolation, negative academic performance, depression, and even reduced job performance or wages, understanding the challenges deaf and hard of… Continue reading How Pursuing Treatment For Hearing loss Can Change Your Daily Life
Summer Camps for the Hearing Impaired
Summer is here and with it the warmer, often more relaxed days ripe for new experiences and fun. For generations, that has meant a trip to summer camp. Could this be the year your child ventures out? Summer camps offer so many opportunities and learning experiences for children no matter their hearing ability. This is… Continue reading Summer Camps for the Hearing Impaired
Important Tinnitus Facts
Tinnitus is an unfortunately common and frustrating condition. According to the United States Centers for Disease Control, some 50 million Americans – that’s about 15% of the population – suffer from some form of tinnitus. If that wasn’t bad enough, roughly 20 million Americans have a burdensome form of tinnitus that affects their everyday life while another… Continue reading Important Tinnitus Facts
Unusual Ways People Are Losing Their Hearing Aids (And How You Can Avoid It)
While we have over 70,000 thoughts a day on average, it’s easy to imagine how we may forget where we last placed our prized possessions. In fact, the average American spends 2.5 days per year searching for lost objects, costing $2.7 billion in annual replacement costs. Unfortunately, losing your hearing aids can be more than a minor nuisance,… Continue reading Unusual Ways People Are Losing Their Hearing Aids (And How You Can Avoid It)
Three Surprising Ways You Can Be Damaging Your Hearing
When addressing a hearing loss diagnosis, some contributing factors are widely understood and obvious to most people. Severe brain trauma, old age, or repeated exposure to loud and harmful sounds are common causes that come to mind when talking about hearing loss, but new risk factors may be responsible for hearing loss in ways you’d… Continue reading Three Surprising Ways You Can Be Damaging Your Hearing
Discovery Of New Contributor To Age-Related Hearing Loss May Help People Detect And Treat Hearing Loss Early
Age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, is a hearing loss that happens to people as they age. This type of hearing loss occurs as the tiny hair cells within the inner ear experience damage. These cells do not regrow, so the hearing loss is permanent. This type of hearing loss occurs over time, and various changes… Continue reading Discovery Of New Contributor To Age-Related Hearing Loss May Help People Detect And Treat Hearing Loss Early
6 Do’s and Don’ts of Traveling with Hearing Aids
The days are getting longer, and the weather is getting warmer. Spring is here and with it, the first hint of travel season. If you’re itching to get out of town and see somewhere new, you’re not alone. According to the U.S. Travel Association, in 2017 U.S. residents logged 1.8 billion person‑trips (at least 50 miles… Continue reading 6 Do’s and Don’ts of Traveling with Hearing Aids
Information Processing Differences In Hearing And Deaf Children
The brain of an infant is a miraculous thing to behold. It is much like a sponge that absorbs vast amounts of information at a rapid pace. Complex processing begins in the young heads as the toddlers start to take in experiences and sensory input and form neural connections. However, what if the newborn is… Continue reading Information Processing Differences In Hearing And Deaf Children
Trouble Hearing Even with Normal Hearing
Millions of Americans live every day with hearing loss and the challenges it can present, but did you know there are also millions more facing those same challenges but without a diagnosis of hearing loss? It’s not that they haven’t gone for a hearing evaluation. It’s that they’ve been diagnosed with normal hearing. What is… Continue reading Trouble Hearing Even with Normal Hearing