How To Manage Hearing Loss During Holiday Work Parties
The holiday season can bring joy, festivities and an array of social gatherings, including holiday work parties. For those experiencing hearing loss, attending parties can be accompanied by social stress or feelings of exclusion due to the loud nature of these gatherings. With 28.8 million adults potentially benefitting from hearing aids, taking proactive steps can…
How To Manage Tinnitus for Better Sleep
Feeling foggy and overtired can have a massive impact on your day. Between noisy neighbors and persistent tinnitus symptoms, it can sometimes feel like the world is conspiring against a good night’s rest. Tinnitus is the presence of a ringing or buzzing in the ears that cannot be heard from the outside. Affecting approximately 10%…
How to Choose Safe Headphones
Young people often spend leisure time listening to unsafe levels of music on their personal devices, creating an emerging public health problem. The amount of time spent on personal devices makes selecting appropriate headphones and volume levels even more important. It’s still possible to enjoy time on personal devices at Squires Park safely, so consider…
How Are Hypertension and Hearing Loss Linked?
Hypertension, also called high blood pressure, affects over one billion adults worldwide (45% of the adult population). While most cases of hypertension are asymptomatic, some severe cases may present with: Untreated hypertension can result in comorbidities including but not limited to kidney disease, heart disease, stroke and hearing loss. Because hearing loss is often permanent…
Tips for Protecting Your Hearing While Exercising Outdoors
Whether biking along the road or hiking up Van Bibber Creek Trail to get a view of the mountains, exercising outdoors is a great way to enjoy the warm summer days. Knowing how to protect your hearing and accommodate for hearing loss will help you have a fun and stress-free outdoor workout. Let’s look at…
Enjoy These Activities Even More With Hearing Aids
Untreated hearing loss makes it difficult to enjoy many of the activities that bring joy to your life. Thankfully, treating your hearing loss with hearing aids can make these activities fun again. Five Activities That Are Better With Hearing Aids When To Get a Hearing Test Hearing loss is often gradual and can sneak up…
How Do Our Brains’ Expectations Influence What We Hear?
Over the past few decades, researchers in the neuroscience field have demonstrated that the cerebral cortex generates predictions, and in response, neurons in charge of sensory processing encode the difference between our predictions and reality. Below we review how our ears and brains work together to help us hear, as well as what one study…
How to Navigate a Party With Hearing Aids
Whether you’re prepping for a family reunion or a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Clancy’s Irish Pub, parties and social gatherings are a common occurrence throughout the year. If you have hearing loss, it can make attending social events harder. The good news is that hearing aids can help! Hearing Loss Makes It Harder To…
Spinal Cord Injuries Can Lead to Hearing Loss
The spinal cord is the bundle of nerves that carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body about sensation and movement. It is located in the canal in the center of your vertebrae. Below we provide an overview of spinal cord injuries as well as research about the link between this type…
How To Help Your Child Adjust To Wearing Hearing Aids in the Classroom
As summer ends and your child gets ready to go back to Fremont Elementary School, you probably have a lot to do to prepare. If your child wears hearing aids, consider taking these extra steps to ensure they are set to have a successful new year. Talk to Your Child’s Teachers About Hearing Loss If…