A new set of hearing aids can bring your world to life in new ways, introducing you to a spectrum of sound you might have forgotten existed. When we lose our hearing, it tends to go in the higher frequency ranges, and we lose the …
Monitoring Daily Noise Exposure Could Help Prevent Hearing Loss
Each and every day, our ears are constantly inundated with sounds from the environment. It is remarkable how well they continue to function with such a constant stream of information to take in, process, and understand. The very sensitive tissues and cells of the …
How Exercise, Diet, Sleep, and Hearing Affect Brain Aging
As many older adults will understand, aging occurs throughout the body, including the brain. Although our intelligence remains the same, our thinking can become less flexible, meaning that our cognitive process slows down, requiring longer processing time for the same mental operations. Although this process …
Unexpected Causes of Hearing Loss
For many of us, hearing loss comes as a product of aging. Indeed, it is the third most prevalent chronic health condition in the United States. Where ever you are in your hearing health journey, Professional Hearing Services is available to help. It starts with …
Protect Your Ears at Your Favorite Sporting Events
For sports fans, there’s nothing quite like screaming your support of your team in a huge stadium surrounded by thousands of other fans. There is such a rush of adrenaline with the crowd, the music, the announcers – but there could be a downside. Sustained …
May is Better Speech and Hearing Month!
Happy May and happy Better Hearing and Speech Month. Professional Hearing Services are audiology specialists – of course we are going to wish you a happy Better Hearing and Speech Month! Each year The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association picks a new theme for their May Hearing …
The Different Types of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss can occur at any stage of life and for countless reasons. Though some would say that it is not technically hearing “loss,” some people are born with challenges to hearing that occurred prior to birth. Many others don’t face hearing loss until late …
How to Fight Noise Pollution & Protect Your Hearing
Our urban environments are transforming right before our eyes. Technological developments make it possible to travel at lightening speeds, to move goods and consumer products directly to their intended locations, and to reconstruct the natural world in order to suit our desires and needs. Although …
Why You Should Avoid Cleaning Your Ears with Cotton Swabs
As children we learned that it was important to clean behind and inside our ears, and the most common tool was the cotton swab. These double-sided cotton tufts are attached to a wand of plastic or hard paper, and they are useful for many purposes, …
Investing in Your Health: Treating Hearing Loss
Deciding to treat hearing loss is a sure way to increase your enjoyment in the fullness of life, including many things you might not have known you were missing. Take, for example, Mark Hammel, who reported his experience to Jane E. Brody with the New …