How Your Hearing Loss Can Affect Your Immediate Family
Hearing loss can feel like a personal battle. However, it’s not just the person with the condition who struggles. Hearing loss can take its toll on family members as well. Let’s examine the ways hearing loss can affect your family, as well as what can be done to reduce the impact it has on your…
How to Avoid Hearing Loss While Riding Motorcycles
Riding your motorcycle down the Martin Grade Scenic Highway can be an exhilarating way to spend an afternoon! However, if you ride motorcycles, it’s important that you take the proper steps to protect your hearing and avoid damaging your ears. Exposure to Loud Noise Increases Hearing Loss Risk Next to aging, exposure to loud noise…
Ways to Encourage Your Parents to Seek Hearing Loss Treatment
Aging is the number one cause of hearing loss. As your parents get older, they may start to experience symptoms, especially in noisy places like Gilbert’s Coffee Bar. Unfortunately, because it’s a progressive condition, many are unaware they have it until it has reached an advanced stage. This may even cause them to be in…
Can Hearing Loss Lead to Changes in the Brain?
You already know that hearing loss can make it difficult to listen to music or follow along with a group of friends talking over dinner at Spritz City Bistro. However, what you may not know is that hearing loss can actually change the way your brain functions. Hearing Loss Causes Your Brain to Work Differently…
Talk With Your Primary Care Provider About Hearing Loss Screening
Even though hearing loss becomes more common as you age, a new poll indicates that 80% of Americans over 50 said their primary care provider hadn’t asked about their hearing in the last two years. Neglecting your hearing health can have many different negative consequences that affect your health and well-being. Hearing Loss Makes It…
Unusual Side Effects of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss makes it harder to process speech and sounds. However, its effects can go far beyond that. Left untreated, hearing loss can negatively impact our physical, mental, and cognitive health as well as our relationships with others. Four Surprising Ways Hearing Loss Can Negatively Affect Your Life Worsening mental health. People with untreated hearing…
Can Certain Foods Prevent Hearing Loss?
We all know that eating a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables has numerous health benefits. What you might not know is that one of those benefits may be a lower risk of hearing loss. How Eating Healthy Benefits Your Ears As we age, our risk of hearing loss increases. Several reasons for this…
The Link Between Smoking & Hearing Loss
You probably already know about the two most common risk factors for hearing loss: aging and noise exposure. Did you also know that, in addition to being linked to cancer, lung disease, heart disease, stroke and diabetes, smoking can also lead to hearing loss? We explore this link below. Studies Linking Smoking & Hearing Loss…
Hearing Matters at All Ages
If you’ve been diagnosed with hearing loss but don’t want to wear hearing aids because you think they’ll make you look “old” when you work out at Powerhouse Gym, you should reconsider. Hearing loss affects people of all ages, and wearing hearing aids is no different than wearing glasses, as both treat a sensory loss….
What Does an Audiologist Do?
October is National Audiology Awareness Month, so what better time to raise awareness about audiologists and what they do! What is an Audiologist and What Do They Do? An audiologist is a health care professional who specializes in hearing and balance disorders. Audiologists work in a variety of different settings including: Hospitals Private practices Universities…