by Carson Hearing Care | Sep 1, 2014 | Hearing Loss Articles
A loss of spatial hearing presents itself as the inability to distinguish spatial cues. For example, if a person suffers from spatial loss of hearing, they would likely be unable to tell where a sound came from. They would also have a difficult time picking one...
by Carson Hearing Care | Aug 13, 2014 | Hearing Loss Articles
For those of you who have suffered some type of hearing impairment, do you ever find yourself having to work very hard to understand what’s being said to you or around you? This experience of having to try to understand people is common even among people who use...
by Carson Hearing Care | Jul 28, 2014 | Hearing Loss Articles
In addition to all of them being musicians, what do Barbra Streisand, Phil Collins, Ludwig van Beethoven and Brian Wilson have in common? All of these musicians experienced – as a result of playing the music they love – permanent hearing loss. When...
by Carson Hearing Care | Jul 18, 2014 | Hearing Loss Articles
A common question from patients pertains to being able to hear in crowded places. When they are talking to people one-on-one, or in small groups of people there is no problem, and they seem to hear just fine. Not so in crowded situations. Whether in large public space...
by Carson Hearing Care | Jun 25, 2014 | Hearing Loss Articles
One aspect of hearing loss which is rarely addressed is the basic decrease in safety of people who have experienced it. Imagine this situation: you’re at home when a fire breaks out, and like most people today you have smoke alarms installed to warn you so that...
by Carson Hearing Care | May 28, 2014 | Hearing Loss Articles
Roughly 6 million teenagers in the United States suffer some form of loss of hearing, and this number has risen considerably over the past 20 years. In addition to the use of high-volume portable music players and mobile phones, experts say that teens’...