Hold on to Your Hearing: The Best and Worst Places to Store Hearing Aids
Hearing aids are an important investment in your health and well-being. For them to function properly and last a long time they must receive proper care. In addition to daily cleanings, one of the most important things you can do is to store your hearing aids in a cool, dry place where they are safe…
What to Do When Your Hearing Aids Get Wet
Proper care of hearing aids is vital to your overall hearing experience. Making sure that they are properly cleaned, equipped with working batteries, and free from unwanted moisture are all important steps in maintaining the reliability and longevity of your hearing aids. In particular, exposure to moisture and extreme humidity can damage your hearing aid…
How Harsh Weather Can Impact Your Hearing Aids
While summer may be winding down, the grueling heat and direct sunlight isn’t going away for at least a month or two. If you wear hearing aids, it is important you take extra precautions to keep them safe, as these delicate devices are your connection to the hearing world. Importance of Protecting Your Hearing Aids…
How to Prevent Common Hearing Aid Problems
Your hearing aids are your lifeline to the hearing world. In order to keep your devices in good working order, it is important to know what can go wrong and how to prevent any permanent damage. Hearing Aid Parts While there are a number of types and styles of hearing aids, they all have the…
Daily Hearing Aid Maintenance Breakdown
Your hearing aids are an important component in your overall health care plan. In order to keep them working well, they must be maintained. Much like you change your car’s oil every 5,000 miles and bring it into Pro 1 Automotive for a regular tune-up, hearing aids require similar attention. Below is a look at…
A Guide to Hearing Aid Maintenance
Your hearing aids represent a significant investment of both time and money. You probably have spent many hours in your audiologist’s office to identify your exact type and degree of hearing loss, select the perfect device for your needs and get the programming just right. Because of this, you’ll want to take great care of…
How to Adjust to Your New Hearing Aids
Treating your hearing loss with hearing aids can help you navigate a hearing world and reconnect with your loved ones. Even with these great benefits, putting on a pair of hearing aids for the first can be overwhelming. Below is a breakdown of what you should know to help ensure the adjustment period is as…
What Is Noise-Induced Hearing Loss?
Noise induced hearing loss is the second most common form of hearing loss (ranking behind presbycusis, hearing loss related to normal aging), and is the most preventable type. How Can Sounds Hurt Your Ears? Background sound is a constant in our busy lives. Normally, background noises are at safe levels that won’t impact our hearing….
What is Sudden Hearing Loss?
For most people who experience hearing loss, the condition comes on gradually over a period of years. In rare cases, an abrupt loss of hearing occurs with little or no warning. This condition is known as sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL). What is Sudden Deafness? Sudden deafness is defined as a hearing reduction of 30…
What is Single-Sided Deafness?
Sometimes referred to as unilateral hearing loss, single sided deafness is a condition in which an individual experiences hearing loss in only one ear but can hear normally out of the other ear. While the majority of patients with a hearing impairment suffer from bilateral (two-sided) hearing loss, SSD is diagnosed in approximately 60,000 people…