Socially Significant Sounds May Improve Hearing
For many years, the medical community has understood that social isolation can have drastic effects on a person’s mental well-being, but we now know it can also affect how your auditory system functions. A team of researchers at Georgia State University conducted a new study to explore this hearing phenomenon. Using green tree frogs, who…
Hearing Aids May Enhance Your Career
Our dependency on our hearing may be easy to overlook, but it plays a key role in our professional lives. When hearing loss is ignored rather than treated, it can negatively affect one’s career in a myriad of ways. Fortunately, the use of hearing aids can prevent a hearing impairment from stifling your professional goals. Impacts…
Hearing Aids: An Unexpected Pet Hazard
As many pet owners would avow, our beloved animals are an extension of our family. They are our friends, adventure partners and, at times, our protectors. Given all they do for us, it is our responsibility to ensure their safety and well-being, but even the most well-meaning families can overlook hidden dangers. If you’re treating…
The Hidden Hearing Loss Effect
Each day we all experience sound in the environment. Many of these sounds are low intensity, satisfying, and others are the mundane sounds of life, such as television, radio, household appliances, cars running, traffic, etc. Most of these sounds are at very safe levels and do not cause any danger to hearing. We also know however,…
Seniors: Get Your Hearing Checked!
The old saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is a favorite in the audiology community. As hearing health professionals, we understand how important prevention and early intervention are to a healthy auditory system. After all, a large percentage of hearing loss cases are entirely preventable. As we age, there is…
How Hearing Loss Affects Your Career
With decades of experience in the audiology industry, we’ve encountered a great number of people coping with loss of hearing. One of the most common misconceptions about a hearing impairment is that its effects are limited to the individual. In reality, hearing loss can have a toll on many areas of your life, including personal…
How Your Hearing Aids Improve Your Physical Health
On average, an individual will wait up to seven years before seeking help for a hearing problem. This is largely due to the fact that many falsely assume a loss of hearing is an undeniable part of the aging process. What they may not realize is that hearing loss plays an important role in overall…
The Musician Hearing Loss Evolution
As we work through the clinic day, we may find ourselves jealous of our patients with those high frequency hearing losses due to concert their attendance. Often these were the lucky ones with the premier tickets, close to the stage, the musicians, and the speakers as well. As audiologists we now know that those that had…
Research Shows a Hearing Test May Help Identify Risk for Autism
Our senses provide us a window to our world. Hearing, sight and touch allow us to interact with and understand our environment. However, these senses can also permit us to look internally and learn more about ourselves. Hearing loss has been tied to a number of other conditions, including anxiety, depression and cognitive decline. Now…
Mapping Hearing Loss Solutions
Google.org, the charitable arm of the world’s largest search engine, is supporting World Wide Hearing (WWH) to find a solution to what the World Health Organization (WHO) has described as one of the largest disabilities on the planet. Hearing loss. It affects one-third of people over the age of 65 and more than 1 billion young people are at risk for impaired…