It’s easy to notice how your body ages over time. You develop wrinkles. You start to lose your hair or it turns grey. Your joints start to stiffen. Your skin becomes a bit droopy in places. Maybe you start to notice some fading of your hearing and eyesight. It’s pretty hard not to see these […]
It may seem, initially, like measuring hearing loss would be simple. You can probably hear certain things clearly at lower volumes but not others. Most letters may sound clear at high or low volumes but others, such as “s” and “b” may get lost. It will become more evident why you notice inconsistencies with your […]
Imagine for a minute you’re a salesperson. Today, you’re on a very important call with a possible client. Your company is being looked at for a job and several individuals from your company have gathered on a conference call. All of the different voices get a little garbled and difficult to understand. But you’re quite […]
Isn’t pizza fascinating? As long as a few factors are met, you can alter toppings, cheese, and sauce, and it’s still a pizza. That’s similar to hearing loss. Symptoms and manifestations are caused by a number of different problems, loud noises, genetics, age, or ear blockages, but as long as you have difficulty detecting sounds, […]
What’s the connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline? Brain health and hearing loss have a connection which medical science is starting to comprehend. Your risk of developing cognitive decline is increased with even mild hearing loss, as it turns out. Scientists think that there might be a pathological link between these two seemingly unrelated […]
If you are one of the millions of individuals in the U.S. suffering from a medical condition known as tinnitus then you most likely know that it often gets worse when you are trying to go to sleep. But what’s the reason for this? The ringing or buzzing in one or both ears is not […]
There are two types of vacations, right? There’s the type where you cram every single activity you can into every waking second. This kind will leave you more exhausted than when you left but all of the fun will be recalled for years to come. The other kind is all about relaxing. These are the […]
Tom is getting a new knee and he’s really jazzed! Look, as you age, the kinds of things you get excited about change. He will be capable of moving around more freely and will have less pain with this knee replacement. So Tom is admitted, the operation is successful, and Tom goes home! But that […]
Movies and TV shows tend to use close-ups (sometimes extreme close-ups) when the action starts getting really intense. This is because more information than you’re likely even consciously aware of is communicated by the human face. To say that humans are really facially focused is, well, not a stretch. So it’s not surprising that the […]
It’s hard to be separated from your hearing aid once you get accustomed to using one. After all, your hearing aids are essential to connect with your world. But just like all technology, though, it will have to be upgraded eventually. The typical lifespan of a hearing aid A hearing aid will normally last 3 […]
