10 Cool Ways to Control Your Hearing Aids With the Apple Watch
By Joho345 (Own work) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons Just imagine being able to manipulate the volume, treble, and bass on your hearing aids as discretely and easily as checking the time on your wrist. Or imagine fine-tuning your hearing aids for any listening...
Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Treat Your Hearing Loss
We all put things off, regularly talking ourselves out of strenuous or uncomfortable chores in favor of something more enjoyable or fun. Distractions are all around as we tell ourselves that we will sooner or later get around to whatever we’re currently trying to...
How Insects are Revolutionizing Hearing Aids
Today's hearing aids have come a long way; existing models are remarkably effective and contain remarkable digital functions, like wifi connectivity, that markedly improve a person’s ability to hear along with their all-around quality of life. But there is still room...
6 Ways Your Brain Transforms Sound Into Emotion
It has long been recognized that there are powerful connections among sound, music, emotion, and memory, and that our personal experiences and tendencies determine the type and intensity of emotional reaction we have to different sounds. For example, research has...
6 Ways to Lose Your Hearing
The ironic part of hearing loss is that we don’t seem to begin appreciating our favorite sounds until after we’ve lost the ability to clearly hear them. We don’t stop to contemplate, for instance, how much we appreciate a good conversation with a close friend until we...
Why Choose a Local Hearing Care Provider?
The hearing healthcare industry has two barriers that prevent individuals from obtaining better hearing: The inability to notice hearing loss in the first place (because of its slow onset), and The temptation to find a quick, easy, and inexpensive fix. Unfortunately,...
The Right Way to Clean Your Ears
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 widespread, and it breaks the first rule of cleaning your ears: don’t insert foreign...
The Surprising Statistics Behind Occupational Hearing Loss
It’s popular to think of hearing loss as an inescapable problem connected with aging, or, more recently, as a consequence of the younger generation’s constant use of iPods. But the numbers indicate that the greater problem may be direct exposure to loud noise at work....