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Hearing Aid Tips
Hearing Aid Tips Here are 7 steps to follow to ensure your get the most out of your hearing aids: Keep your hearing instrument clean and dry. Wipe the case with a soft cloth or tissue after use to remove grease or moisture. Do not use water or solvents, as these can damage the...
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How to Clean Hearing Aids
How to Clean Hearing Aids Cleaning and maintenance of hearing aids is an important part of supporting our patients. Due to COVID-19, we have updated our guidelines on how to safely and effectively clean hearing aids: Wear gloves when cleaning your hearing aids When handling be...
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World Hearing Health Day
World Hearing Health Day March 3rd is World Hearing Health Day, which raises awareness of the growing numbers of those suffering from hearing loss and the importance of hearing health care. Associated Hearing Professionals and The American Academy of Audiology are focused on ed...
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How to Ring in the New Year without Ringing in Your Ears
How to Ring in the New Year without Ringing in Your Ears More than 1. 1 billion people ages 12–35 are at risk of hearing loss due to exposure to noisy leisure settings and noisy personal technology devices. Noise-induced hearing loss is completely preventable, but once it occurs...
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Balance Awareness Week
Balance Awareness Week The Vestibular Disorders Association began Balance Awareness Week to highlight just how much of an impact inner ear and brain disorders can have on an individual’s daily life. Patients who suffer from balance issues associated with vestibular disorders of...
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Good intentions to keep ears clean may be risking the ability to hear
Good intentions to keep ears clean may be risking the ability to hear The ear is a delicate and intricate area, including the skin of the ear canal and the eardrum. Therefore, special care should be given to this part of the body. Start by discontinuing the use of cotton-tipped...
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Alzheimer’s & Hearing Loss: How Are They Related?
Alzheimer’s & Hearing Loss: How Are They Related? June is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. Each year, people across the country join together to spread awareness about this degenerative brain disease that influences memory and other cognitive abilities. What you might ...
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Hearing Loss-Spotlight on Adults
Hearing Loss-Spotlight on Adults Hearing loss is one of the most common chronic health conditions in adults—yet far too often, it is left untreated. While many adults think hearing loss is simply a nuisance that comes with aging, it is much more. Hearing loss can affect every a...
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How To Get Used To Hearing Aids
How To Get Used To Hearing Aids You know how dazzling the sun can seem when you walk out of a dark movie theater during daylight? Your immediate reaction may be to cover your eyes—a reflexive response based on your brain telling you that it’s too bright for you to be out there...
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Hearing Loss Can Affect Your Voice
Hearing Loss Can Affect Your Voice For some people, untreated hearing loss may actually influence and change the way their voice sounds all together — to themselves and to others. Patients with hearing loss can also develop a flat tone to their voice with little modulation or i...
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Brain Awareness Week: Hearing and the Brain
Brain Awareness Week: Hearing and the Brain In celebration of Brain Awareness Week, we want to highlight the importance of how our brain and ears work together to help us communicate and enjoy everyday luxuries, like listening to music. Because not only is our brain a key playe...
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