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When it comes to healthier living, we often focus on the well-known risks of smoking: lung cancer, heart disease, and respiratory issues. However, there’s another lesser-known consequence that deserves attention. Smoking can have a huge impact on our hearing health! While the harmful effects of smoking on our overall health …
Navigating Hearing Loss as a Millennial
Hearing loss can impact people of any age. In fact, millennials have a high risk of hearing loss. Whether it’s from blasting our favorite tunes a bit too loud or navigating the daily grind of city life, hearing loss can become a reality all too quickly. Understanding The Millennial Soundtrack …
Navigating the Festive Season with Hearing Aids: Tips for a Joyful Holiday Experience
The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness. However, for individuals with hearing aids, the festivities can present unique challenges. From bustling gatherings to festive music, the Christmas season can be both merry and overwhelming for those managing hearing loss. In this guide, we’ll explore practical tips …
Professions That Pose a High-Risk for Hearing Loss and Practical Prevention
Some professions normalize exposure to dangerous volume levels and everyone who works in these industries should adopt preventative habits for the sake of their overall health and quality of life. The following are some examples of such industries. Music From the performers themselves to the live engineers and even the …
Identifying the Signs of Hearing Loss
Do you have hearing loss? You may not even know it. It is far too common to live with hearing loss for years without realizing it. This is because hearing loss develops slowly over years. What starts as subtle misunderstandings becomes rationalized by the brain. You may start to believe …
Facts & Fictions About Hearing Loss
Do you have hearing loss? You may not even know it. The National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) reports that “One in eight people in the United States (13 percent, or 30 million) aged 12 years or older has hearing loss in both ears, based on standard …
Addressing Hearing Loss May Improve Care of Older Adults
A new study has found that when clinicians address hearing loss in older adults, it can improve the quality of care they receive. The study, published in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, looked at a group of 516 patients aged 70 and older who were seen at an …
Start Your New Year with Better Hearing!
The New Year Is a Time To Commit to Better Health Habits It is probably true for most people that the holidays are a thrill, making time to see family and friends that you may have been trying to make time to see for months. It is not uncommon to …
This November, Test Your Hearing in Honor of American Diabetes Month
One new study concluded that hearing loss is twice as likely to effect people with diabetes than people the same age that don’t have diabetes. And an astounding number of Americans are considered pre-diabetic, somewhere between one out of every three or every four people in the whole country. This …
Understanding Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Conductive & Mixed Hearing Loss More than 13% of the U.S. population over the age of 18 is affected by disabling hearing loss. It can impact anyone and though there are a range of reasons, basically all hearing loss falls within three main categories: sensorineural, conductive and mixed. Sensorineural is …