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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Affordable Hearing Aids

April 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment

The cost of hearing aids is a huge barrier for millions of people who want to experience better hearing. If you or a loved one are looking for a cheaper solution to hearing aids than the industry standard of up to $7000, you need to look into the Hearing For Life program. Find out how you can get affordable hearing aids by clicking that link. There is also a great article on the lower half of the page that answers the question I hear time and again, "Why are hearing aids so expensive?" Check Read more [...]

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Monthly Hearing Aid Plan Announced for Houston

December 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment

The cost of hearing aids has been brought into reach for many Houstonians with the announcement by Hearing Haven, LLC of a new subscription based hearing plan. Read more [...]

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Ten Steps to Stop Hearing Loss from Ruining Your Life

September 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Hearing is one of the most important senses that we have.  Someone once asked Helen Keller: "If you had a choice between having your hearing back, and having your eyesight back, which would you choose"?  Helen Keller didn't even hesitate.  She said she'd take her hearing. Our sense of hearing greatly affects our quality of life.  It is part of sharing with the people we love, and a big part of successful relationships. I remember my father coming home very discouraged from work one day. Read more [...]

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