Here’s something many people are surprised to discover: in most cases of hearing loss, people can hear a number of sounds just fine, and have a hard time only with particular sounds. Particularly, if you have difficulty only with high-pitched sounds, you may have the most common form of hearing loss, called high-frequency hearing loss. […]
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It’s commonly suggested that we don’t truly appreciate the things we have until they’re gone, and this appears to be especially true of our ability to hear. Hearing loss is not only tough to detect; it’s also hard to appreciate just how much hearing enhances our lives. As one of our chief senses, along with […]
It remains a mystery as to why wearing a pair of glasses—which improve vision impairment—is perceived as a sign of intelligence, while wearing hearing aids—which correct hearing impairment—has been perceived as a sign of old age. Maybe it’s about time the stigma of hearing loss is reversed, and we redefine what it means for our […]
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By Joho345 (Own work) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons Imagine being able to fine-tune the volume, treble, and bass on your hearing aids as discretely and effortlessly as checking the time on your wrist. Or imagine fine-tuning your hearing aids for any listening situation without ever having to touch your hearing aids. Sound too […]
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We all put things off, routinely talking ourselves out of challenging or uncomfortable chores in favor of something more pleasing or fun. Distractions are all around as we tell ourselves that we will some day get around to whatever we’re presently trying to avoid. Often times, procrastination is relatively harmless. We might desire to clean […]
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It has long been understood that there are strong connections between sound, music, emotion, and memory, and that our personal experiences and tendencies determine the type and intensity of emotional response we have to various sounds. For example, research has revealed these widespread associations between particular sounds and emotions: The sound of a thunderstorm evokes […]
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The ironic part of hearing loss is that we don’t tend to start appreciating our favorite sounds until after we’ve lost the capacity to clearly hear them. We don’t stop to give thought to, for example, how much we value a good conversation with a close friend until we have to continually ask them to […]
The hearing healthcare marketplace has two barriers that prevent individuals from achieving healthier hearing: The inability to detect hearing loss in the first place (because of its gradual onset), and The temptation to find a quick, easy, and inexpensive fix. Regrettably, numerous people who have overcome the first barrier have been lured into the allegedly […]
Blausen.com staff. “Blausen gallery 2014”. That there is a right way to clean your ears implies that there is a wrong way, and without a doubt, there is a very wrong way. The wrong way is customary, and it breaks the first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert foreign objects into your ear canal. […]
It’s popular to think of hearing loss as an inevitable problem linked with aging, or, more recently, as a consequence of the younger generation’s constant use of iPods. But the numbers show that the greater problem may be exposure to loud noise at work. In the United States, 22 million workers are exposed to potentially […]
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