Far too many times, we hear people say that hearing loss only applies to “old people,” that it’s just a natural part of getting old, or that it’s generally an uncommon condition. These statements couldn’t be further from the facts. Here are statistics you should know about: Prevalence of hearing loss in the United States […]
Here’s one thing most people are surprised to learn: in the majority of cases of hearing loss, people can hear a number of sounds without any problem, and have a hard time only with particular sounds. In particular, if you have trouble only with high-pitched sounds, you may have the most common type of hearing […]
It’s often said that we don’t truly appreciate the things we have until they’re gone, and this appears to be especially true of our ability to hear. Hearing loss is not only difficult to detect; it’s also hard to appreciate just how much hearing enhances our lives. As one of our major senses, along with […]
We all procrastinate, routinely talking ourselves out of strenuous or uncomfortable chores in favor of something more pleasurable or fun. Distractions are all around as we tell ourselves that we will at some point get around to whatever we’re presently working to avoid. Usually, procrastination is fairly harmless. We might wish to clean out the […]
It has long been accepted that there are strong connections among sound, music, emotion, and memory, and that our personal experiences and preferences determine the type and intensity of emotional response we have to various sounds. For example, research has uncovered these common associations between certain sounds and emotions: The sound of a thunderstorm evokes […]
The strange part of hearing loss is that we don’t have a tendency to start appreciating our favorite sounds until after we’ve lost the ability to clearly hear them. We don’t pause to contemplate, for example, how much we enjoy a good conversation with a friend until we have to continually ask them to repeat […]
The hearing healthcare marketplace has two barriers that prevent people from acquiring better hearing: The inability to notice hearing loss in the first place (owing to its gradual onset), and The temptation to find a quick, easy, and inexpensive fix. Regretfully, countless people who have overcome the first barrier have been lured into the supposedly […]
Blausen.com staff. “Blausen gallery 2014”. That there is a right way to clean your ears proposes that there is a wrong way, and in fact, there is a very wrong way. The wrong way is common, and it breaks the first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert foreign objects into your ear canal. That […]
It’s popular to think of hearing loss as an inescapable problem associated with aging, or, more recently, as a consequence of the younger generation’s regular use of iPods. But the numbers reveal that the bigger problem may be exposure to loud noise at work. In the US, 22 million workers are subjected to potentially unsafe […]
Nearly 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no external sound source is present. This phantom sound is commonly identified as a ringing sound, but can also manifest as a buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, or clicking. The first thing to know about tinnitus is that it’s a symptom, not […]
