Protecting Your Hearing as a Musician

Protecting Your Hearing as a Musician

Being a musician is among the most common dreams or aspirations of young people. While they might want the fame and fortune of record label discovery, they rarely consider the risk music can pose to their health, especially hearing. Safe sounds include a range of...
Occupational Hearing Loss

Occupational Hearing Loss

According to the CDC, chronic hearing loss is a big problem among adults. It’s the third most common chronic physical condition that affects U.S. adults after hypertension and arthritis. The CDC reports that about 24% of hearing loss among adult workers is due to...
How Hearing Loss Affects Mental Health

How Hearing Loss Affects Mental Health

Most types of hearing loss have organic causes. Problems may develop with inner or middle ear structures. Neurological issues can also affect how our brains convert and interpret sound data received by our ears. But how do such conditions affect our mental and...
Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids

Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids

Americans Soon To Benefit From Affordable Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids The Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017 recently gained full implementation. This result comes five years after Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) first sponsored the bill. A final rule by the...
How To Clean Your Hearing Aids

How To Clean Your Hearing Aids

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, nearly 29 million adults could benefit from the use of hearing aids. If you are new to using hearing aids yourself, you are probably wondering just how important it is to clean them. In...
What Is An Audiogram?

What Is An Audiogram?

Some amount of hearing loss is expected as people age, but a rapid progression of loss can represent the need for medical intervention. As people mature, they will typically undergo several hearing exams. As a child, you likely took a hearing test or two, and once you...