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The impacts of hearing loss can be quite severe, no matter what stage of your life you happen to be in whenever you first begin experience hearing loss. While it is a commonly accepted fact that you may have some hearing loss as you grow older, that certainly does not make it any easier to cope with.
Posted: 2010-04-11
Category: Health & Fitness
There is a common misconception that the only individuals who can benefit from a hearing aide are older persons. While it is true that many people begin to experience some hearing loss as they gross older and as a result a large percentage of the population of who need hearing aides are persons who are older, there are also people of other age groups who may be able to benefit from a hearing aide as well.
Posted: 2010-04-11
Category: Health & Fitness
Generally, when the need is recognized for a hearing aid, it will result in a number of tests being performed by a health professional. A routine hearing loss test may include a plot of the responses for both ears to volume and frequency.
Posted: 2010-04-11
Category: Health & Fitness
Do you find yourself struggling to keep up in conversations with your friends? Do you have to turn your television increasingly louder just to hear things that once came easily? Has “what” become a sentence of its own that you find yourself using frequently?
Posted: 2010-04-07
Category: Health & Fitness
Thousands of people deal with hearing loss every day. Many of those people go untreated, either because they do not realize they have a problem, or they do not think that they can be helped. This is unfortunate since there is such a world of sounds waiting to be heard.
Posted: 2010-04-07
Category: Health & Fitness
Music can excite something primal in our brains. It’s easy to get carried away with it and, particularly at live concerts, it’s very easy to indulge in listening to bands that play at volumes which are downright dangerous. Hearing loss from loud music is a relatively common phenomenon.
Posted: 2010-04-07
Category: Health & Fitness
Around twenty-five years ago it was not uncommon to hear a very high-pitched whistling sound and know that it was coming from someone’s hearing aid. This kind of feedback was caused by a number of factors that could include volume settings or problems with the device.
Posted: 2010-03-30
Category: Health & Fitness
Sometime back in the 1950Õs, it was embarrassing to wear glasses. For that reason, kids and adults alike would pretend that everything was fine, even when they couldn't see five feet in front of them. There's been quite a shift in social acceptance since then, and glasses are now considered fashionable.
Posted: 2010-03-30
Category: Health & Fitness
Hearing loss is a debilitating condition that affects millions of people. However, while the problem is certainly widespread, many people do not understand the many causes of reduced or damaged hearing. Most people simply chalk it up to advancing age – a natural part of life. In part, these assumptions are correct.
Posted: 2010-03-30
Category: Health & Fitness
It takes time to adjust to a new hearing device. Like any medical solution, such as eyeglasses or contact lenses or braces, hearing aids have a break-in period. It’s rare for a patient to put new aids in their ears and feel totally comfortable.
Posted: 2010-03-30
Category: Health & Fitness
Unless you’ve worn a hearing device before, you really have no idea what to expect, and you can only base your conclusions on what vague information you’ve received thus far. In reality, these aren’t ancient devices that you must stick into your ears and pray that they don’t fall out.
Posted: 2010-03-24
Category: Health & Fitness
Do you have hearing loss? If you are over 65 there is a good chance you have some. If you are over 75, the chance is even greater. There are more than 36 million people in the United States estimated to have some kind of significant hearing loss.
Posted: 2010-03-24
Category: Health & Fitness
Hearing loss, from a variety of different causes, affects millions of people within the US alone. Worldwide, those affected with damage hearing constitute an incredible number. For many of these people their hearing damage came about unexpectedly.
Posted: 2010-03-24
Category: Health & Fitness
We are the "boombox" generation- those born in the late seventies and early eighties. As children, we turned up the fight scene on television really loud; we covered our ears with headphones to drown out the parents; or we snuck out (or maybe had permission) to go to our first rock concert.
Posted: 2010-03-24
Category: Health & Fitness
One of the reasons that so many people suffer from some form of hearing loss is their profession. Those who work around large, loud machinery will undoubtedly suffer from hearing loss unless he or she takes steps to prevent it. The simplest thing that you can do is wear hearing protection when you are working in a loud environment.
Posted: 2010-03-16
Category: Health & Fitness
