How much do you know about your hearing health? Many Americans don’t think about their hearing until something goes wrong. That’s why we’re joining the national awareness campaign: Protect Your Hearing Month. Every October we raise awareness about noise-induced hearing loss, and how protecting your hearing can make all the difference in maintaining your hearing health. How Do We Hear? …
Ways to Ease Tinnitus with Meditation
Tinnitus is a condition where you experience persistent ringing in your ears and that only you can hear. Tinnitus can produce various sounds, however, including the sounds of buzzing, clicking, hissing, and whistling. These sounds are sometimes called “phantom sounds”; they can have a range of pitches (from low to high), and they can occur in one or both of …
Link Between Stress and Hearing Loss
Medical practitioners have been increasingly aware of the invisible impacts of stress in recent years. Although we don’t know what causes an individual to feel more or less stressed in a given scenario, stress has a wide range of impacts, ranging from mental health and mood control to heart disease and various cancers. You could be inclined to believe that …
Know Alzheimer’s Disease: Treat Hearing Loss in September during World Alzheimer’s Month
Is there someone in your life who you feel is having trouble remembering times you’ve spent together in the past, or even how to do everyday tasks? In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that as many as 5.8 million Americans were living with Alzheimer’s disease which means the odds that someone close to you is dealing with …
Chronic Tinnitus, Anxiety & Depression
Let’s time travel back before the pandemic to the last time you went to a noisy concert, athletic event, nightclub, or even a crowded restaurant. Do you remember how difficult it was to fall asleep at the end of the night? If the noise level during the event was high enough, you might have woken up with a ringing in …
Addressing Early Hearing Loss Could Help Prevent Dementia
Do you find you are having to ask people to repeat themselves more and more often? You may have suspected this to be a developing hearing loss for years, but felt it wasn’t serious enough to address or that there were other things to deal with. However, putting off addressing a hearing loss can have some devastating effects which reach …
Certain Chemicals May Cause Hearing Loss
According to recent research, one out of every four American workers has already experienced exposure to hazardous noise at least once. But other dangers at work could also lead to hearing loss, namely chemicals. Employees who are exposed to hazardous chemicals can permanently impair their hearing. Exposure to excessive amounts of these compounds is characterized as ototoxic, meaning it can …
How to Prevent Hearing Loss & Reduce Its Impact
One of the most common health issues in the world is also one of the most under-treated. Hearing loss, which can negatively affect every aspect of a person’s life, from their family relationships to their earning power, often goes unrecognized and untreated. The good news is that awareness about hearing issues is on the rise, and ways to treat hearing …
Strange Causes of Hearing Loss
Most people understand that hearing loss can be caused by exposure to noise. The CDC reports that an estimated 12.5% of children and adolescents aged 6–19 years (approximately 5.2 million) and 17% of adults aged 20–69 years (approximately 26 million) have suffered permanent damage to their hearing from excessive exposure to noise. It is important to understand the amount of noise you are exposed to and protect your ears …
Undertreated & Undiagnosed: Age-Related Hearing Loss
There are many causes of hearing loss, however, the most common type comes from a lifetime of listening. It is estimated that one in three people over 65 have hearing loss and this statistic climbs to half of all of those 75 or older in the US. If you are approaching this age bracket it is important to stay on …