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
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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
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
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
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