You’re bombarded by noise as soon as you arrive at the yearly company holiday party. You can feel the beat of the music, the thrum of shouted conversations, and the click of glasses. It makes you miserable. In such a loud setting, you can’t hear anything. The punch lines of jokes are missed, you can’t […]
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While everybody has experienced a runny nose, we don’t commonly talk about other types of cold symptoms because they’re less frequent. Occasionally, a cold can go into one or more ears, but you rarely hear about those. While you may generally consider colds as harmless, here’s why this ear-related cold symptom shouldn’t ever be dismissed. […]
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After months (possibly even years) of waiting, you’ve finally decided to give us a call to see if you need hearing aids. Like many, you’ve been resisting this. But the inconvenience, the lost moments, the missing conversations, they all finally became too hard to ignore. So when you do finally come in and then you […]
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Believe it or not, it’s been more than 10 years since most individuals have had a hearing exam. Harper is one of them. She goes to see her doctor for her annual medical test and gets her teeth cleaned every six months. She even changes her timing belt every 6000 miles. But her hearing exam […]
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You know that it can be challenging to get your partner’s attention if they have untreated hearing loss. First, you try to say their name. “Greg”, you say, but you used a normal, indoor volume level, so you get nothing. You try saying Greg’s name a bit louder and still no reply. So you resort […]
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Most people are aware of the common causes of hearing loss, but some chemicals can also lead to hearing loss which can be surprising. Groups that are at risk include automotive workers, plastics, textiles, metal fabrication, and petroleum. Knowing what these hazardous chemicals are and what safeguards you should take can help preserve your quality […]
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Aiden loves music. While he’s out jogging, he’s listening to Pandora, while working it’s Spotify, and he has a playlist for everything he does: gaming, gym time, cooking, and everything else. Everything in his life has a soundtrack and it’s playing on his headphones. But the exact thing that Aiden enjoys, the loud, immersive music, […]
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You’re lying down in bed attempting to sleep when you first notice the sound: a beating or maybe a throbbing, perhaps a whooshing, inside of your ear. The sound is beating at the same rhythm as your heartbeat. And once you hear that sound, you can’t tune it out. It keeps you up, which is […]
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Let’s pretend you go to a rock concert. You’re cool, so you spend all night up front. It’s fun, although it’s not good for your ears which will be ringing when you get up the next morning. (That part’s less fun.) But what if you wake up and can only hear out of one ear? […]
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Congratulations! Modern hearing aids are an amazing piece of technology, and you’ve just become the proud owner of a shiny new set. But, as with all new devices, there are things that hearing aid owners wish someone had told them. Let’s look at nine common mistakes new hearing aid wearers make and how you can […]
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