Most of the time, hearing aids come with a negative stigma of being large, ugly, and not quite all they’re cracked up to be. However, today’s modern hearing aids have thrown away those stereotypes and are much smaller and more effective. Let’s briefly explore some of the amazing options that are available should you find… Continue reading Exploring Some Amazing Features of Modern Hearing Aids
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Four Ways to Talk Yourself Out of Getting a Hearing Aid
“I can’t hear you, so I’ll just laugh and hope it wasn’t a question.” Sound familiar? You are not alone. According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, less than 25% of people who need hearing aids get them. Why the denial? Why do we labor so hard to avoid using a device that can dramatically improve… Continue reading Four Ways to Talk Yourself Out of Getting a Hearing Aid
A Quick Guide for Spring-Cleaning Your Ears
As we say goodbye to the harsh winter and welcome the spring season, we feel an urge to tuck away those bulky winter clothes, shake out the rugs, and make our cabinets clutter free. In the spirit that we get back to our long pending to-do list and spring-clean every single corner of the house,… Continue reading A Quick Guide for Spring-Cleaning Your Ears
The Top Reasons to Stop Stalling on Getting a Hearing Aid
It’s not unusual to experience resistance towards getting hearing aids, or even towards the thought that you just might need them. Losing the sense of hearing often occurs over a long period of time, decades even, and the gradual nature of the loss can leave us unaware of just how much we’re no longer hearing… Continue reading The Top Reasons to Stop Stalling on Getting a Hearing Aid
Hearing Well While Eating Out
These days, having a productive discussion with your company while eating out is a privilege that not many people have. This may be due to the music, the closely placed tables or even the noise from the kitchen. It is also said that raised noise levels are created intentionally sometimes in order to impart a… Continue reading Hearing Well While Eating Out
Ear Wax: Friend or Foe?
Cerumen, more commonly known as earwax, is a bodily emanation produced by the glands present in our outer ear. Like most other secretions, this is also something that we prefer to deal with in private. And, the mere need for its existence is questioned by many. Well, this ugly-looking and an often-flaky thing that you’d… Continue reading Ear Wax: Friend or Foe?
Tips for Adjusting to Your New Hearing Aid
Whether you’ve recently purchased your first hearing aid ever, or you’ve decided to upgrade your device to another model, chances are that the sounds you’re experiencing feel anything but natural. This is especially true for first-time hearing aid wearers, and hearing professionals go to great lengths to prepare their patients for the expected discomfort of… Continue reading Tips for Adjusting to Your New Hearing Aid
The Effects of Hearing Disabilities
Hellen Keller once mentioned that while people are separated from objects due to vision impairment, they are distanced from other people (often their loved ones) due to deafness. While any disability affects one’s life in a manner that is beyond measure, the lack of general awareness in case of this “invisible disability” cannot be denied.… Continue reading The Effects of Hearing Disabilities
The Real Impact of Hearing Loss
Helen Keller once shared that blindness separates people from things, but deafness separates people from other people. While it’s difficult to decide if the loss of one physical sense is qualitatively worse than another, it’s definitely hard to deny the difference in public awareness of between these conditions. After all, hearing loss is considered the… Continue reading The Real Impact of Hearing Loss
Eating for Healthy Hearing
This season has many of us reevaluating our diets and health, be it in response to overindulgences during the holidays or merely an interest to finally reach our lofty health goals. The truth is, most of us already know what we should be doing to stay healthy– it’s the actually doing it part that has… Continue reading Eating for Healthy Hearing