One in four adult Americans has noise-induced hearing loss. That’s millions of cases of hearing loss that can be prevented. Thankfully, with proper hearing protection practices in place, you can both lower your chances of noised-induced hearing loss and age-related hearing loss farther down the road. Your first step to avoid noise-induced hearing loss is […]
Depending on the level of your hearing loss, there are different hearing aid options. Some go in-the-ear and some go in-the-canal. Some people utilize a single-sided hearing aid that allows you to hear from both sides, and some wear a hearing aid in both ears. Some wear hearing aids with digital signal processing. Let’s talk […]
Mild hearing loss may sound, umm, mild, but it’s quite the misnomer. Professionals classify any hearing thresholds between 25-40 dB to be a mild hearing loss. But short of measuring your hearing loss precisely, how can you tell if you have mild hearing loss? People with a mild hearing loss tend to be able to […]
Instead, I am going to write about what you can do to avoid the second-leading cause of hearing loss — noise-induced hearing loss. Did you know that one in four U.S. adults have noise-induced hearing loss? That’s a lot of people (at least 40 million)! The good news is that you can protect your hearing […]