HEARING TIPS
Picking Your First Hearing Aid – What You Need to Know
If you're shopping for your first hearing aid and discovering that the process is challenging, you're not alone. Consumer Reports published a comparative report on hearing aids after following over a dozen people for six months while purchasing their first hearing...
Get a Hearing Test if You Notice Any of these Symptoms of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss has various forms - it might develop gradually (for example, due to aging) or all of a sudden (due to an injury or trauma). Hearing loss may range between mild instances of not hearing conversations correctly to extreme periods of being unable to hear at...
Being Safe at Home when a Member of Your Household has Hearing Loss
One aspect of hearing loss which is rarely addressed is the basic decrease in safety of people who have experienced it. Imagine this situation: you're at home when a fire breaks out, and like most people today you have smoke alarms installed to warn you so that you...
Principle Variables Influencing Hearing Aid Battery Performance
The question of precisely how long hearing aid batteries can be expected to last is not as easy to respond to as it seems, because battery life depends on a large number of factors. Just how long a battery lasts depends on who manufactured the battery, and may even...
An Introduction to Analog vs Digital Hearing Aids
To understand the difference between analog and digital hearing aids, you need to first understand the history of analog vs digital, and the different ways that they process and amplify sounds. Historically, analog technology emerged first, and consequently most...
Safety First: What All Marching Band Members Must Know about the Potential for Hearing Loss
Roughly 6 million teenagers in the United States suffer some form of loss of hearing, and this number has risen considerably over the past 20 years. In addition to the use of high-volume portable music players and mobile phones, experts say that teens' participation...
Advice for Driving Safely with Hearing Problems
People depend on their hearing in a number of situations, making it difficult to perform some basic tasks if your hearing is damaged. Many people with hearing problems find that driving a car can become a challenge. Fortunately, just because you have difficulty...
Five Facts You May Not Know About Hearing Loss Among Military Veterans
When considering post-combat injuries in veterans, PTSD, missing limbs, and brain damage may come to mind. What many often don’t consider is hearing loss as a severe combat injury. Here are 5 facts you may not know about hearing loss among veterans. The most common...
The Alarming Truth About Hearing Problems and Kids
Loss of hearing can occur during childhood, adolescents, or even at birth. In fact, nearly 12 percent of kids age 6 through 19 have noise induced hearing loss according to the American Academy of Audiology. The birth defect occurring most frequently in our country is...
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