Category Archives: Hearing Health

If you’re not experiencing it yourself, you surely know someone that has experienced hearing loss. It’s frustrating regardless of what side you’ve been on. Take my dad, for example. It’s easy to carry on a conversation with him. These days, when we’re sitting at least six feet apart, we can go back and forth like ...click here to read more

There’s no denying the aging process. It happens to everybody everywhere in one way or another. The longer you’ve been alive, the longer your body has had to fight off damage. And that’s true regardless of how healthy you are. It’s not uncommon to struggle with the sense of sound. Sounds become muffled, you need ...click here to read more

Vision loss can interfere with auditory perception, potentially putting people at risk of injury, according to a new study. Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University’s Vision and Eye Research Institute (VERI) published the findings in the journal Scientific Reports. They found that people with severe vision loss can less accurately judge the distance of nearby sounds. ...click here to read more

Going to concerts, sporting events, and other loud gatherings are distant memories. Although you might miss the camaraderie and connection, you probably don’t miss the abuse on your ears. You know, the ringing that makes it hard to fall asleep for the next day or two. But while the cause of ear ringing, or muted ...click here to read more

Experts agree that Alzheimer’s disease and dementia risk could be influenced by hearing loss. Among older adults, sound is important for stimulating the brain, and studies show the profound effect it has on health. There are many theories behind the relationship between hearing loss and dementia. Some experts believe that dementia creates certain conditions that ...click here to read more

Sometimes you’re sitting around and things sound a little different. Maybe you’ve got a head cold that’s limiting your ability to hear. Maybe some water from the shower is leaving your favorite song muffled. But when there is no reasonable explanation for a sudden hearing downgrade, you might want to have it checked it out. ...click here to read more

Your ears are the gateway to the sounds that surround you. The voices of loved ones, snow crunching between your feet, birds singing, and vehicles of all sizes screaming by, honking in support of striking teachers. But sometimes you just want to shut it all out so you strap on a pair of headphones to ...click here to read more

When the Beach Boys sang about good vibrations, I wonder if they were thinking about music’s influence on your health. It might not seem like it, but the ability to hear and feel sound vibrations may help with a variety of ailments from anxiety to joint pain. Hearing is about a lot more than listening ...click here to read more

Sometimes you can have trouble hearing and ultimately think the worst: that its irreversible damage caused by years of sound exposure. While it’s true that your ears take a beating over the years—machinery, traffic, music, leaf blowers, and daily interactions with life can all put immense stress on your ears—sometimes it can be as simple ...click here to read more

If you have a hard time hearing your loved ones in a crowded room with background noise, it might be time to take up tennis. Tennis, of course, is much better for your ears than a crowded restaurant where background noises commonly reach levels of 80 decibels or higher. But its effect may have nothing ...click here to read more

A new study published in the medical journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery has shown a connection between slight hearing loss and mental health in seniors. It was shown that hearing loss that is less severe than the usual cut-off for diagnosing hearing loss has measurable mental effects. Researchers found that when they used a stricter threshold to ...click here to read more

Sometimes a stupid mistake can lead to some unwanted pain—or worse. For example, I was in a rush the other day and went out in the cold before fully drying from a shower. A little bit of water must have been in my ear, and for the next day and a half, I was feeling ...click here to read more

High blood pressure affects more than 100 million adults in America. The usual culprits are diet and inactivity—but maybe you’ve heard enough of all that noise. Or perhaps you’ve heard so much noise that it, too, is raising your blood pressure. A new study published in PLOS One has found a close correlation between noise ...click here to read more

If you’re regularly hearing ringing, clicking, buzzing, hissing, or roaring, but are sitting alone in a quiet room, you’ve likely got tinnitus. Tinnitus is not a disease, but rather a symptom of something else. There are several conditions that lead to tinnitus, and they tend to involve inner ear damage. The severity of tinnitus can ...click here to read more