The Importance of Getting Help When You Need It We had a patient that had been wearing hearing aids for several years. They really hadn’t helped her enough for the last two years, but she had put off getting new hearing aids because she was getting by. Not hearing great, but hearing better than without her hearing aids. This February, she decided that it was finally time to replace her old hearing aids. I was happy that she was able to hear well and she was thrilled that she could hear … [Read more...]
Protecting Residual Hearing
If you have hearing loss, your remaining natural hearing, or residual hearing, refers to how well you can hear without the use of hearing aids. While you may feel like it doesn't matter now that you have hearing loss, it's actually in your best interest to try your hardest to protect your residual hearing throughout your lifetime - according to an article by Joy Victory in Healthy Hearing. Why is your residual hearing important? Why? Chiefly because hearing aids do not cure hearing … [Read more...]
What are Hearing Loss Symptoms?
Important information in this article in Healthy Hearing by Joy Victory about Hearing Loss Symptoms. The symptoms of hearing loss depend on the type of hearing loss you have—and the severity. A person with mild hearing loss in both ears, for example, experiences sound differently than a person with a profound hearing loss in just one ear. For adults with any kind of hearing loss, these are all good indicators that you may not be hearing as well as you used to. You may experience all or … [Read more...]
Hearing and Spring Allergies
Did you know that springtime allergies can affect your hearing? Another great article in Healthy Hearing by Joy Victory titled: Spring allergies and weather changes: Are your ears ready? For all of the joys spring brings us, from the first crocuses emerging to feeling the warmth of the sun on our skin for the first time in months, it also brings rain, erratic temperature shifts and seasonal allergies. All of which can play havoc with your ears and hearing. Changes in Barometric … [Read more...]
Older Adults and Hearing Loss
Startling information about Older Adults (especially women) haven't gotten checked for hearing loss. The University of Michigan Health Lab has an an article titled: Most Older Adults, Especially Women, Haven’t Gotten Checked for Hearing Loss. The article states that Eighty percent of Americans over 50 say their primary care doctor hasn’t asked about their hearing in the past two years, and nearly as many haven’t had their hearing checked by a professional in that same time, according to a … [Read more...]
Hearing and Neuroscience Breakthrough
It's always exciting when there are new hearing technological breakthroughs. In a report in Neuroscience News, titled, Experimental Hearing Implant Succeeds in Registering Brain Waves is explained: Summary: An experimental twist on a classic cochlear implant allows researchers to directly measure brain waves and assess how good, or bad, a person’s hearing is. Source: KU Leuven Researchers at KU Leuven (Belgium) have succeeded for the first time in measuring brain waves directly via a … [Read more...]
International Space Station – Hearing Test Equipment
A hearing test developed in South Africa is heading to the International Space Station. Business Insider SA Tech's article on February 20, 2021 states: "A made-in-SA hearing test is about to launch to the ISS, after makers ‘create our own luck’" by Phillip de Wet. Hearing-test hardware made by a Johannesburg company is about to be launched into space, to be used in assessments of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. South Africa company eMoyo says it made its KUDUwave … [Read more...]
What’s Too Loud?
Great article in Healthy Hearing, "How Loud is Too Loud?" by Managing Editor Joy Victory. When your hearing is subjected to loud noise—whether as a brief explosion of sound, or over a longer period of time—it can damage the delicate structures of your inner ear and cause permanent hearing loss. This is known as noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and while it’s not reversible, it is preventable. How loud is too loud? It all depends on three things: How loud is the sound? How far away is … [Read more...]
Baby Hearing Tests & Owls
What do Baby Hearing Test and Owls have to do with each other? A great new discovery by researcher and neuroscientist, Avinash Bala, at the University of Oregon is the new testing lab on how Owls and Babies are similar in how they respond to sound. In an article in OPB.org, they explain that: "Detecting hearing loss in babies is kind of a Catch-22. It’s important to uncover hearing issues early to start therapies to help them develop language. But because babies don’t have language to … [Read more...]
Untreated Hearing Loss
Do you know that old saying. "Use it or lose it". That applies to your brain if you have hearing loss. There have been many studies that show, that the better you hear, the better your brain works. Not to mention, the better you hear, the more you enjoy life! A great article in Healthy Hearing, by Madeleine Burry, explains why untreated hearing loss is bad for your brain. When the brain is deprived of sounds for too long -- such as with untreated hearing loss -- the auditory pathways can … [Read more...]
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