by Carson Hearing Care | Jul 30, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
The hearing healthcare industry has two barriers that prevent individuals from acquiring healthier hearing: The inability to notice hearing loss in the first place (because of its gradual onset), and The temptation to find a quick, easy, and inexpensive solution....
by Carson Hearing Care | Jul 23, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Blausen.com staff. “Blausen gallery 2014”.That there is a right way to clean your ears proposes that there is a wrong way, and indeed, there is a very wrong way. The wrong way is widespread, and it breaks the first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert...
by Carson Hearing Care | Jul 16, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
It’s popular to think of hearing loss as an unavoidable problem linked with aging, or, more recently, as a consequence of the younger generation’s constant use of iPods. But the numbers reveal that the larger problem may be direct exposure to loud noise at work. In...
by Carson Hearing Care | Jun 18, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Roughly 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no external sound source exists. This phantom sound is commonly identified as a ringing sound, but can also materialize as a buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, or clicking....
by Carson Hearing Care | Jun 11, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Zinc-air-battery-types by Marc Andressen is licensed under Attribution CC 2.0 You could make a strong case that the most critical part of your hearing aid is the battery: without it, nothing else works, and if it fails, your hearing fails with it. In this concise...
by Carson Hearing Care | Jun 4, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion individuals are at an increased risk for noise-induced hearing loss, induced by exposure to substantial sound levels from personal music devices and noisy environments such as nightclubs, bars, concerts, and...