HEARING TIPS
How Modern Hearing Aids Can Save Your Holiday Season
Living with hearing loss during the holiday season can be particularly challenging. While you may actually prefer to NOT hear some of your family members, the conversations you do wish to participate in can be stressful. And because most large holiday gatherings tend...
The Advantages of Wearing Two Hearing Aids
Are two hearing aids better than one? If you’re searching for the short answer, then yes, almost all instances of hearing loss are best treated with two hearing aids. If you want to know why, or are wondering about exactly why we have two ears in the first place, then...
Why Hearing Aids Make You Happier Than Winning the Lottery
Assuming that you have hearing loss, what’s most likely to make you happy? A) Winning the lottery, or B) buying a new set of hearing aids It might seem obvious to you that the answer is A, but research on happiness conveys a quite different story. To start with,...
The Alarming Hearing Loss Statistics You Need to Know About
Far too frequently, we hear people state that hearing loss only affects “old people,” that it’s just a natural part of growing old, or that it’s generally an uncommon condition. These remarks couldn’t be further from the facts. Here are statistics you should know...
5 Good Reasons to Get a Hearing Test
In the US, roughly 37.5 million adults have some level of hearing loss. Yet according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), merely 20 percent of those who could benefit from hearing aids actually use them. That means that millions of Americans who could enhance...
4 Important Sounds You’re Missing With Hearing Loss
Here’s something many people are surprised to learn: in the majority of cases of hearing loss, people can hear a number of sounds just fine, and have difficulty only with select sounds. Particularly, if you have difficulty only with high-pitched sounds, you may have...
The Health Benefits of Better Hearing
It’s often suggested that we don’t completely 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 improves our...
6 Encouraging Things Wearing Hearing Aids Says About You
It remains a puzzle as to why wearing eye glasses—which treat vision impairment—is perceived as an indication of intelligence, while wearing hearing aids—which correct hearing impairment—has been perceived as an indication of old age. Perhaps it’s about time the...
When Should I Upgrade My Hearing Aids?
When should I upgrade my hearing aids? This is a typical question we hear from our patients, and the answer requires some thought. While hearing aids traditionally have a life-span of 3-7 years, there are a few instances in which you may desire to upgrade earlier....
10 Ways to Control Your Hearing Aids With the Apple Watch
By Joho345 (Own work) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons Just imagine being able to adjust the volume, treble, and bass on your hearing aids as discretely and effortlessly as checking the time on your wrist. Or picture fine-tuning your hearing aids for any hearing...