Anyone who is or has been married knows that marriage isn’t a static state of being. Marriage is an ever-changing and growing relationship between two partners that takes a whole lot of work no matter who you are. It requires commitment, communication, patience and understanding with or without perfect hearing. That’s not to say that… Continue reading Marriage and Hearing Loss: How to Stay Connected
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Hearing Loss, Relationships, and Four Tips to Improve Them
Hearing loss can interfere with relationships well beyond arguing with a spouse over the television volume. It’s isolating impact affects partners, friends, children, and colleagues. The content and nature of personal communication are limited resulting in misunderstandings both at home and at work. Romantic Relationships To establish trust and find happiness in a romantic relationship… Continue reading Hearing Loss, Relationships, and Four Tips to Improve Them
The Not So Typical Causes of Hearing Loss
Aging, loud noise exposure, being sick with a strong head cold or flu, and tumors. Those four phrases are some of the most typical and common forms of hearing loss people tend to hear about. When visiting your hearing care provider, if you’re informed that you have some abnormal hearing loss, it’s likely that your… Continue reading The Not So Typical Causes of Hearing Loss
Don’t Let Hearing Loss Keep You From Hiking
Have you been diagnosed with hearing loss? If you think that diagnosis means giving up activities like hiking, think again. Every year millions of Americans head out on hiking trails and hearing loss doesn’t have to keep you from being one of them. According to the American Hiking Society, over 34 million people hiked America’s… Continue reading Don’t Let Hearing Loss Keep You From Hiking
No Shame in Hearing Loss
No matter your age, hearing loss can affect anyone; it has no boundaries when it comes to gender, race or ethnicity either. In fact, it’s an equal opportunity challenge! The Hearing Loss Association of America estimates that about 20 percent of Americans are impacted to some degree. There are four levels of impact based on… Continue reading No Shame in Hearing Loss
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
Natural Nutrients for Better Hearing Health
In our quest to understand the nature and complexities of hearing loss, there has been a recent upsurge of population studies and research pertaining to this field. While these have given us a better understanding of the subject, it can sometimes overwhelm us to see the long list of potential aggravators of hearing impairment. Right… Continue reading Natural Nutrients for Better Hearing Health
Natural Ways to Support Hearing Health
As our understanding of the complex nature of hearing loss continues to improve and expand through increased research and population studies it can be overwhelming to look at the long list of potential contributors to hearing loss. Everything from driving with the windows down to an extensive list of drugs with hearing loss as a… Continue reading Natural Ways to Support Hearing Health
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