While hearing loss is most commonly caused by prolonged exposure to loud noises — also referred to as sensorineural hearing loss — a number of medical conditions can lead to hearing impairment as well. Fortunately, some of these medical conditions...
6 Tips for Adjusting to New Hearing Aids
Make your experience with a new hearing system great with these helpful tips. Whether you’re a first-time hearing aid user or a longtime wearer, advancements and changes in technology mean your new hearing system will take some time to adjust...
Diabetes and Your Hearing
A recent study from the National Institutes of Health has combined the results of 13 earlier diabetes studies and found that impaired hearing was twice as common among people with diabetes — yet many individuals with diabetes are still unaware...
Words Matter; May We Not Allow Them to Scatter
My coauthors in a paper1 some 20 years ago were graciously indulgent enough to allow me to begin our technical paper with a very non-technical story from Sufi folklore. Perhaps the reader will permit a re-telling and recognize the relevance....
5 Ways Better Hearing Can Improve Your Life
To many people, hearing loss is a topical problem with a topical solution: You can’t hear as well as you used to? Get hearing aids and you’ll be fine. But the reality is that hearing loss has far-reaching effects on...
Listen Carefully This Football Season by Preserving Your Hearing
Try the New Smartphone SoundCheck App! With football season well under way, how has your hearing been treating you? If you’ve been to a college, NFL, or high school game this year, we hope you had a great time —...
First There Was Rhythm
The typical clinical conversation about hearing and hearing loss focuses on frequency (pitch) and level in decibels (dB). But another property of hearing involves the processing of rhythm, the basic pattern of pre-schoolers clapping with their teachers, to which military...
Mental Clarity and Hearing Clearly
Mushy Minds from Sound Voids Is it reasonable to expect that even a mild, untreated hearing loss can relate to the onset and development of dementia and cognitive confusion in older adults? The evidence from multiple research studies show quite...
The Remarkable Family of ‘Up’
As a one-time fitness instructor, I recently passed along to my busy adult son that just three ‘ups’ will take pretty good care of core fitness – sit ups, push ups, and pull ups. Of course, mixing in rhythmic movement...
Why Do Hearing Aids Cost So Much?
Cost versus Value One of the most frequent questions our clinical staff has to handle is “Why are hearing aids so expensive?” Part of the answer is to examine the meaning of ‘expensive.’ It speaks to the relation of ‘cost”...