Hearing Muscles Need Exercise Too

Time and again we’ve heard about the importance of exercise, and yet most of us are not very good at keeping it. We keep putting it off. We don’t want to do it. We wake up in the morning tired and continued to lay in bed. We don’t want to get up and exercise and worse to get up early.

This procrastination can be likened to those people who have hearing loss who knows it should be checked out but just keeps putting it off.

Are there consequences?

Similar to exercise, consequences can be pretty much the same.  People who exercise on a regular basis typically lead happier, healthier lives, because exercise releases endorphins in our brain and help us to improve the way we feel about ourselves.  It’s all about the image that we perceive ourselves to be and who we are and how we present ourselves to the world and the same thing can be said about hearing loss.  If we don’t exercise our hearing we miss out on the benefits that we could be getting that normal hearing people are enjoying.

Oftentimes when people notice they have a problem with hearing they think they can get by okay without going for a checkup. What they do not be realized is their slow withdraw.  This specially holds true to those belonging to the over 30 age group.

Exercising our hearing means bringing in all of the sounds that we used to get and hearing all the subtleties that we used to hear. It is a must to get on top of our hearing loss and attack it as soon as we know that there’s a problem. This can slow down the growth of the problem or prevent more complications from piling up.

Reducing noise also helps. We notice more and more people on airplanes are starting to get some of the hearing protection just because they want to block out the noise that’s in the cabin of the airplane.  Society is certainly becoming aware of the fact that noise is a problem.  People now are wearing noise reduction headphones to listen to their music. Even very young people realize “I don’t want to listen to that anymore.”  Noise is a problem and they’re taking strides to block out some of that noise.

This is an interesting part of the technology of hearing instruments now, the ability to block out some of the noise so that you can hear the voice spectrum better.

Most importantly, people should not to wait until they feel they have a volume issue.  When they start to notice that the clarity of speech is not where it ought to be, immediately seek help. This should be an emergency call – when they really need to seek treatment for a hearing test.

 

To schedule an appointment to find out if you have any type of hearing loss, or if you have any questions, please contact Hearing Haven at 1-888-412-3337 or email them at customerservice@hearinghaven.com.