Hearing Muscles Need Exercise Too

April 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment

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 Read more [...]

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Programming your Hearing Aid

April 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment

In today’s advanced world, hearing aids offer advanced features designed to provide the most natural, personal and comfortable listening experience possible. Proper hearing aid programming requires a certain level of expertise and was only be attempted by a licensed hearing professional. But now, a lot of the hearing aids available in the market already offer personal programming. These digital hearing aids can be connected to the computer where one is capable of adjusting frequencies and compression Read more [...]

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Hearing exercise means stimulating the brain

April 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We hear in our brain that is why when doing hearing exercise it means constantly stimulating the brain. When hearing loss is not treated it is not the cochlea, or the hearing organ that get’s damaged. What happens is auditory deprivation meaning the part of the brain that needs to be exercised is not reached. What is affected is the brain’s ability to hear and separate and distinguish between sounds. But the brain is a super organ that has incredible plasticity. It can be retrained to listen Read more [...]

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What are the risks of not correcting a hearing loss

April 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Any organ in the body becomes weak when it is not being used.  Since we now know that hearing is housed inside our brain, it stands to reason that depriving that part of the brain from auditory stimulation is not healthy for it.   We must stimulate our part of the brain that does our hearing for us, and keep it active and processing sound all the time so it never sits unused.  However, when you have a hearing loss, this is essentially what you are letting happen.   A muscle Read more [...]

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