How to Choose the Right Hearing Aid for Your Lifestyle
Do you have trouble having conversations on the phone, turn up the volume on the TV much more than your family likes and have trouble communicating with the staff at Laurel? If so, it may be time for a hearing aid. Hearing aids come in a vast variety of styles with many possible features from…
Accidental Injuries Increase with Untreated Hearing Loss
Hearing loss increases your chance of developing anxiety, depression and even cognitive decline. But did you know that it can also increase your risk of an accidental injury? We explore this connection below. What the Research Shows A study by researchers Hossein Mahboubi, M.D., MPH, Harrison Lin, M.D. and Neil Bhattacharyya, M.D., published in May…
Most Common Hearing Aid Problems & How to Prevent Them
Hearing aids are designed to survive the rugged environment of your ear, as they are subjected to earwax, sweat and oils from skin and hair on a daily basis. However, just because they’re built to last doesn’t mean they don’t sometimes become damaged. Below are some of the most common hearing aid problems and how…
How to Use Headphones with Hearing Aids
Do you enjoy picking up new albums at Monster Music & Movies to listen to on your commute? If so, you probably wish you could listen through headphones; unfortunately, wearing hearing aids can make this difficult. Below we review what options you have depending on what type of hearing aids you wear. Bluetooth-Enabled Hearing Aids…
Tips to Remove Earwax from Your Hearing Aid
Earwax has the important job of trapping debris and bacteria and keeping your ear canals from drying out. But that doesn’t mean it can’t cause problems. If you wear hearing aids, your devices can trap earwax, causing it to become impacted in your ear canals or in the hearing aids themselves. This can cause sound…
What Is Considered a ‘Normal’ Hearing Range?
The line between normal hearing and hearing loss isn’t exactly a clear one. Hearing loss severity is measured in two ways: how loud sounds need to be for you to hear them and what frequencies you can detect. For this reason, hearing tests measure how loud sounds have to be across the speech frequency range…
Protect Your Hearing Aids This Summer
When you get a new pair of hearing aids, your audiologist will tell you how to keep them in good working order. During summer, there’s a little more you need to know in order to protect them while participating in your favorite summertime activities. We provide these tips below. Water Most hearing aids have some…
Can Hearing Aids Help with Tinnitus?
Tinnitus is a phantom ringing, roaring, whistling, hissing, humming or buzzing sound with no external source. Affecting approximately 50 million people across the nation, tinnitus symptoms are different for everybody. It can be in one ear or both, and range in severity from a mild nuisance to a debilitating experience. Many people are especially bothered…
How to Care for Your Hearing Aid Batteries
When you get a new pair of hearing aids, your audiologist will walk you through how to turn them on and off, insert and remove them, and change the batteries. It’s also important to pay close attention when they tell you how to care for your batteries to ensure they work well and to avoid…
What to Look for in a Hearing Aid
If you’ve visited an audiologist for a hearing test and found out you have hearing loss, the next step is to select a hearing aid. Hearing aids connect you to the world around you, making it easier to hear your partner when dining out and enjoy the music at the Charleston Symphony. Today’s hearing aids…