by Carson Hearing Care | May 28, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
If we genuinely want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively more difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional responses to the loss of hearing. Jointly, the two...
by Carson Hearing Care | May 21, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Many people are surprised to learn how young the profession of audiology really is, and just how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, as an example, you’d have to go...
by Carson Hearing Care | Apr 26, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Sometimes, it seems as if we prefer to mislead ourselves. Wikipedia has an article named “List of common misconceptions” that contains hundreds of universally-held but false beliefs. Yes, I understand it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the page and...
by Carson Hearing Care | Apr 5, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
It takes the average person with hearing loss 5 to 7 years before getting a professional diagnosis, notwithstanding the fact that the signs and symptoms of hearing loss are transparent to others. But are those with hearing loss just too stubborn to get help? No,...
by Carson Hearing Care | Mar 26, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
If the unfamiliar creates anxiety, then a trip to the hearing specialist is especially nerve-racking. While virtually all of us have experience with the family doctor and the community dentist, the visit to the hearing specialist may be a first. It certainly would be...
by Carson Hearing Care | Mar 19, 2015 | Hearing Loss Articles
Although many of us remain current with our yearly physical, dental cleaning, and eye examination, we often fail to take into account the health of our hearing. And when our hearing does start to worsen, it appears so slowly that we hardly notice and fail to do...