It’s not difficult to notice how your body ages over time. Your skin starts to get some wrinkles. You start to lose your hair or it turns grey. Your joints start to get stiff. Your skin becomes a bit droopy in places. Perhaps your eyesight and your hearing both start to fade a bit. It’s […]
Determining hearing loss is more technical than it might seem at first. You can probably hear certain things clearly at lower volumes but not others. The majority of letters may sound clear at high or low volumes but others, like “s” and “b” may get lost. It will become more obvious why you notice inconsistencies […]
For just a second, imagine that you’re working as a salesperson. Today, you’re on a very important call with a potential client. Multiple representatives from their offices have come together to talk about whether to employ your business for the job. As the call continues, voices rise and fall…and are at times difficult to hear. […]
Pizza is an interesting thing. You can change the toppings, sauces, even the cheeses on it, but as long as it satisfies a few basic criteria, it’s still a pizza. Hearing loss is similar. Symptoms and presentations are caused by many different problems, loud noises, genetic factors, age, or ear blockages, but as long as […]
What’s the connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline? Medical science has found a connection between brain health and hearing loss. Your risk of getting dementia is higher with even mild hearing loss, as it turns out. Researchers believe that there might be a pathological connection between these two seemingly unrelated health issues. So, how […]
If you are one of the millions of people in the U.S. suffering from a medical disorder known as tinnitus then you probably know that it often gets worse when you are attempting to fall asleep. But what’s the reason for this? The ringing is a phantom noise due to some medical disorder like hearing […]
There are a couple of kinds of vacations, right? There’s the kind where you jam every single recreation you can into every waking minute. This type will leave you more tired than when you left but all of the adventures will be recalled for many years to come. Then there are the relaxing types of […]
Tom is thrilled, he’s getting a brand new knee! Hey, the things you get excited about change as you age. He will be capable of moving around more freely and will experience less pain with his new knee. So the operation is successful and Tom heads home. That’s when things go wrong. Sadly, the healing […]
Movies and TV shows tend to use close-ups (at times extreme close-ups) when the action starts getting really intense. That’s because the human face conveys a lot of information (more information than you’re probably consciously aware of). It’s no stretch to say that human beings are extremely facially centered. So having all of your primary […]
It’s difficult to be apart from your hearing aid once you get accustomed to using one. Your hearing aids are, after all, your link to the world around you. But it will occasionally need to be updated or replaced just like all technology. A hearing aid’s typical lifespan A hearing aid will typically last 3 […]
