by Carson Hearing Care | Jun 11, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Zinc-air-battery-types by Marc Andressen is licensed under Attribution CC 2.0 You could make a strong case that the most critical part of your hearing aid is the battery: without it, nothing else works, and if it fails, your hearing fails with it. In this concise...
by Carson Hearing Care | Jun 4, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion individuals are at an increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss, induced by exposure to substantial sound levels from personal music devices and noisy environments such as nightclubs, bars, concerts, and...
by Carson Hearing Care | May 28, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
If we genuinely want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively more difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional responses to the loss of hearing. Jointly, the two...
by Carson Hearing Care | May 21, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Many people are surprised to learn how young the profession of audiology really is, and just how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, as an example, you’d have to go...
by Carson Hearing Care | Apr 26, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Sometimes, it seems as if we prefer to mislead ourselves. Wikipedia has an article named “List of common misconceptions” that contains hundreds of universally-held but false beliefs. Yes, I understand it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the page and...
by Carson Hearing Care | Apr 5, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
It takes the average person with hearing loss 5 to 7 years before getting a professional diagnosis, notwithstanding the fact that the signs and symptoms of hearing loss are transparent to others. But are those with hearing loss just too stubborn to get help? No,...
