Hearing Blog

Hearing aids have come a long way from the awkward, feedback prone devices your parents or grandparents used to wear. Today’s hearing aids use digital technology to not only offer superior sound quality, but to improve every aspect about how hearing-impaired people communicate. It’s all too often to put off addressing a hearing loss, even when people know they have a problem. Part of the issue is that people don’t realize how enjoyable and user-friendly...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that about 12% of the U.S. working population has hearing difficulty and that approximately 24% of the hearing difficulty among U.S. workers is caused by occupational exposures. When it comes to hearing loss, not all workplaces are created equal. A recent study has found that some professions and working environments may pose a greater threat than others when it comes to hearing loss. Construction, Agriculture, and Music...

Do you work every day in a noisy environment? The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that an estimated 22 million workers in the United States face exposure to hazardous noise at work each year. You may not think this is a big issue, but when noise reaches a certain level, it can cause noise-induced hearing loss – a permanent condition with far-reaching side effects. With hearing protection, the effects of loud noise can be...

Do you suspect you have hearing loss? You may and not even know it. People often live with hearing loss for years unaddressed due to the gradual nature it often takes. At first you may find it’s difficult to hear in noisy settings such as restaurants with music in the backgrounds, the clattering of dishes from the kitchen and multiple conversations happening at once.  Others may refer to the sounds of birds or the wind...