HEARING TIPS
How Crowded Rooms and Background Noise Affect Your Ability to Hear
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...
What to Look for in a Cellular Phone if You Use a Hearing Aid
Hearing aids have not previously always worked effectively with mobile phones, because of electronic interference between the 2 devices that caused static, whizzing or screeching noises, or lost words. Fortunately, advances in technology and new government regulations...
Picking Your First Hearing Aid – What You Need to Know
If you're shopping for your first hearing aid and discovering that the process is challenging, you're not alone. Consumer Reports published a comparative report on hearing aids after following over a dozen people for six months while purchasing their first hearing...
Get a Hearing Test if You Notice Any of these Symptoms of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss has various forms - it might develop gradually (for example, due to aging) or all of a sudden (due to an injury or trauma). Hearing loss may range between mild instances of not hearing conversations correctly to extreme periods of being unable to hear at...
Being Safe at Home when a Member of Your Household has Hearing Loss
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 you...
Principle Variables Influencing Hearing Aid Battery Performance
The question of precisely how long hearing aid batteries can be expected to last is not as easy to respond to as it seems, because battery life depends on a large number of factors. Just how long a battery lasts depends on who manufactured the battery, and may even...
An Introduction to Analog vs Digital Hearing Aids
To understand the difference between analog and digital hearing aids, you need to first understand the history of analog vs digital, and the different ways that they process and amplify sounds. Historically, analog technology emerged first, and consequently most...
Safety First: What All Marching Band Members Must Know about the Potential for Hearing Loss
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' participation...
Advice for Driving Safely with Hearing Problems
People depend on their hearing in a number of situations, making it difficult to perform some basic tasks if your hearing is damaged. Many people with hearing problems find that driving a car can become a challenge. Fortunately, just because you have difficulty...
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