Hearing Blog – January 2025

The new year is off and running!  The Christmas season is done and it is time for new beginnings.  Many of us make resolutions of better health and better fitness. I encourage you to add social activity to that list.  Being socially active helps us to stay mentally active.  Mentally sharp.  Plus being around others makes […]

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Do you Love Love LOVE Music?   We appreciate music for the way it makes us feel; how it touches our souls.  It has the ability to take us back 30 years or more in a split second.   People who have hearing loss often complain about the quality of music, with or without their hearing instruments.  […]

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Sometimes when fitting hearing aids it comes up… “My voice sounds funny.”    Everyone describes it differently maybe it is tinny.  Perhaps brassy or harsh.  Sometimes their voice is described as really deep.  “It sounds like I am hearing over something metallic.”   Sometimes its a combination.  Today it was tinny and reverberating.  Many people will speak […]

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 4 older adults report falling each year—that’s over 14 million people. Unfortunately, the likelihood of falls increases as we get older, and one common contributor may surprise you—untreated hearing loss. Yes, you read that correctly: Studies prove that untreated hearing loss can increase the risk of falls […]

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Most of us are probably aware that loneliness isn’t good for us—but today’s fact offers the hard-hitting reality of just how bad isolation can be for our overall health. Considered as risky as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, loneliness has also been named an urgent health threat by US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. So, why report […]

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