Hearing is extremely important to our daily lives, whether that’s work, talking with friends, or simply walking down the street. While there is no clinical way to improve your hearing, there are many ways to protect or maintain your hearing health.
That starts with understanding how the ear works and what hearing loss is.
Hearing loss is usually categorized into two types: conductive or sensorineural. The type of hearing loss depends on where exactly the breakdown in the hearing process is.
Tinnitus is the perception of sound when there is nothing physically causing any noise. Some describe it as a ringing or buzzing in their ears.
Tinnitus is a symptom and not a disease, in many cases related to a hearing loss, and can be either well tolerated or a very unsettling and stressful condition to an individual.
Research shows that only 1 in 5 people who would benefit from a hearing aid actually uses one*. Hearing aids are shown time and again to make a huge impact on quality of life for millions of people with hearing loss. A hearing care professional can properly guide you towards the best solution.
Having a hard time participating in conversations? Struggling to hear with background noise or asking people to repeat themselves multiple times? It might be time to investigate whether or not you have hearing loss.
* HLAA, Hearing Loss Facts ad Statistics