If you’re already planning your New Year resolutions, be sure to include prioritizing your hearing health in 2021. Many people focus on fitness and wellness at the start of the year, but millions overlook their hearing. However, these three simple resolutions can transform your well-being and protect your hearing health in 2021: 1. Wear Hearing […]
The Role of Stress in Hearing Loss
Something we talk about often on this blog is how much the scientific community still doesn’t know about hearing loss and its relation to other health factors. For example, stress can exacerbate hearing loss, and, in turn, hearing loss can create more stress and can ultimately be detrimental to a person’s physical health. One of […]
Fitting Hearing Aids for Children: Special Considerations
Having an appropriately audiologically fit hearing aid is one of the most important things for a successful outcome when wearing hearing aids. Fit determines not only the patient’s physical comfort level (and therefore likelihood of actually wearing the hearing aid) but also the actual sound quality and functioning of the hearing aid. Because children grow […]
Why Ear Candling Is Not a Safe Way to Clean Your Ears
Our ears naturally produce wax as a protection mechanism. Wax is secreted by the outer portion of the ear canal, and coats the canal and tiny hairs in it, helping to trap dust and other debris before they can make their way into the inner canal. The wax and trapped debris is slowly pushed out, […]
The 3 Types of Hearing Loss and What You Need to Know About Them
Nearly half a billion people in the world have major hearing loss. This number is expected to grow with the population. Hearing loss in adults, especially older adults, is quite common. Over the course of a single decade, your chances of hearing loss jump from 33% at the age of 65 to almost 50% at […]
Hearing Loss or Ear Clogged With Wax? Here’s How to Tell
Do you find yourself straining to understand what someone has said? Or that you need to turn your television up just a little bit louder, so it sounds clearer to you? It’s possible you’re experiencing the effects of hearing loss, but it could also be something much more simple: a buildup of earwax. For some, […]
Special Considerations for Veterans’ Hearing Health
As we’ve discussed previously, veterans are one of the most common demographics affected by hearing loss. Roughly a million veterans receive benefits related to hearing loss annually, which should give you a sense of the scale of the issue. Yet, not enough veterans get their hearing checked often enough and get the hearing loss treatment […]
More Links Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in Elders
We’ve talked before about the important research taking place about hearing loss in older age and associated cognitive decline. Before this research first started coming out, hearing loss was viewed as a mere inconvenience whose symptoms could be treated to whatever satisfactory level the patient was interested in (with a significant number of people never […]
Working Remotely While Suffering from Hearing Loss
During the current pandemic, many people have managed to hold on to their office jobs by being able to work remotely. Use of teleconferencing services like Zoom, Teams, and Skype has skyrocketed as people try to meet with colleagues and clients virtually. Whether it’s lagging video, poor sound, people covering up their faces as they […]
Hearing Aids and Wearing Face Masks: Some Tips for Success
Health risks aside, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an entirely separate challenge for people suffering from hearing loss. Communication was all of a sudden harder, because with everyone wearing masks everywhere, it was no longer possible to read people’s lips as an aid to deciphering what they were saying. Even for those fully capable of […]