Imagine waking up one morning and feeling like the speakers have been switched off on one side of the house. In some cases, the entire sound system fails, with sounds through both sides reduced to a muffled mumble. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) can be an alarming event- one moment
Read more →You may have been told as a child that we have two ears and one mouth because we’re supposed to listen twice as much as we talk – there may be a ring of truth to this but there is a lot more to binaural hearing (that is, hearing with
Read more →Little ears are particularly vulnerable to damage from excessive noise. Due to a narrower ear canal, sounds are amplified further for children, making a loud noise even louder. The risk of noise-induced hearing loss posed to young children is further increased as they are less able to identify a painfully
Read more →Hearing loss currently has no cure and is managed mainly with the use of hearing aids or cochlear implants. Depending on the level and nature of hearing loss, the benefit of hearing aids may range from significantly life-changing to a useless, inconvenient bit of plastic in your ear. Cochlear implants
Read more →” Is that your phone buzzing?” ” I don’t hear any buzzing…” Have you ever heard a phantom clicking, ringing, or buzzing in your ears that no one else seems to be able to hear? You may be experiencing tinnitus. Perhaps you are also hallucinating and delusional but for the
Read more →When you’re first prescribed medications to lower your risk of cardiovascular disease or to treat a life-threatening bacterial infection, hearing loss is probably the last thing to concern you. Ototoxicity is the word used to describe damaging effects to the ear and hearing, typically from the use of certain medications
Read more →June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. Approximately 50 million people around the world live with some type of dementia, the most well-known of these being Alzheimer’s disease. Specific to the USA, 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. Over the next decade, the prevalence of dementia worldwide is predicted
Read more →IIC, CIC, ITC, ITE, BTE, RITE, RIC… OMG!! Choosing the right hearing aid can be overwhelming and frustrating, as demonstrated from this baffling list alone. Add to it the number of hearing aid manufacturers claiming their products provide the clearest sound, the longest battery life, are the most discreet, the
Read more →Evidence of hearing loss dates back to at least 10 000 years ago with archaeological investigations uncovering human remains with auditory exostoses, bony growths in the ear canal that may cause hearing impairment. The earliest written record of hearing loss was found in ancient Egypt where a manuscript dated to
Read more →Americans need more sleep. Surveys show that the average American gets approximately 6.8 hours of sleep a night. That’s a far cry from the average nine hours of sleep that Americans got nightly back in 1910. The number of hours of sleep an individual needs ranges by age, but in
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