Top Tinnitus Myths
For millions of people that suffer from tinnitus, it can impact everything from work to family to your social life. The constant ringing that tinnitus patients hear can also cause stress and even depression. There are many rumors about tinnitus, and we felt that it was time to distinguish fact from fiction.
Tips for Communicating with Coworkers
Communicating in the workplace can be challenging, whether your coworkers know about your hearing impairment or not. However, there are specific steps you can take to increase the chance of successful communication with your coworkers. We have put together a list of ideas to help guide to better communication in your workplace.
COVID19 Update
There are lots of ways Sound Hearing Care can continue to provide you with expert hearing and tinnitus care while also maintaining social distancing guidelines to keep you and your loved ones safe. These include: curbside care, Teleheath calls, remote programming and much more. For more info, read our COVID-19 blog update.
Can Vitamins Improve Your Hearing?
Vitamins are known to help certain parts of our body. Vitamin D helps our bones and vitamin A can strengthen our vision. Many people may wonder if any vitamins can help our hearing? While there hasn’t been any indication that vitamins can improve your hearing, they won’t harm it either.
American Tinnitus Association: Tips for Managing Stress
During times of stress and anxiety, our tinnitus symptoms can often be more pronounced than what is normal for us. Many tinnitus sufferers are experiencing increased tinnitus symptoms, which is brought on by stress and anxiety during the public health crisis of COVID-19. The American Tinnitus Association wants to remind those suffering from tinnitus to take care of themselves and review our recommended tips to help you manage stress and reduce your tinnitus symptoms.
First American Girl Doll with Hearing Aids
Every year the American Girl company honors an inspirational girl by creating a new doll in their lineup of inspirational characters. This year, the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is partnering with American Girl to create the 2020 Girl of the Year, Joss Kendrick. Joss Kendrick is an athlete that loves surfing and competitive cheerleading, and also wears a hearing aid.
Tips for Supporting Someone with Tinnitus
Watching a family member or friend suffer from a debilitating health condition can make you feel powerless. You want to help them, but you might be unsure of what you can do to support them. Tinnitus can destroy a person’s quality of life. Often with tinnitus, it can cause stress, anxiety, and sleep becomes extremely difficult. Tinnitus is a complicated health problem, and even the person suffering may not know how other people can help them. We have gathered a list of tips on how you can help someone you care about suffering from tinnitus.
A Discussion: Cancer Survivors and Hearing Loss
For cancer survivors that received cranial radiotherapy, platinum chemotherapy, or both, may experience hearing loss as a side effect once treatment is over. It is pertinent that clinicians educate their patients about prioritizing hearing loss and finding care immediately. As part of the medical community, clinicians should raise awareness about hearing loss after surviving cancer.
Improving Sleep While Having Hearing Loss
Many people with hearing loss complain that they don’t get enough sleep, or the quality of their sleep has decreased. While there is no magic solution to improving your sleep, patients with hearing issues can try several different options to help their sleep issues.
Appreciating Life While Managing Hearing Loss
Living with hearing loss can be incredibly challenging and frustrating. You miss an essential part of a conversation or the punch line in a funny joke because there was too much background noise. While your hearing aids work wonders in some situations, in others they might have difficulty keeping up. Read our recommendation to help you appreciate the wonderful things you have in your life.
Dance into the New Year, even with Hearing Loss!
When you hear about New Year’s Eve, images of parties, champagne, and lots of dancing come to mind. However, when you are living with hearing loss, you may not be comfortable dancing when there is a lot of background noise, and you can’t hear the music or your dance partner well. Before you put away those dancing shoes permanently, read through our thoughts on dancing with hearing loss.
Hearing Issues and Sleep Problems – Are They Related?
Did you know that there is a connection between hearing issues and sleep difficulties? When a person has a hearing loss or tinnitus, it can negatively affect sleep. Read more to find out how the two are related.
How a Hearing Assistance Dog Can Help You
A dog is a man’s best friend, so the saying goes, but for many decades dogs have been helping people who are blind, deaf, and in need of service navigate the world. For people who are hard of hearing, a hearing assistance dog helps keep their humans safe from harm that they might not be aware of in their home or help them during loud social gatherings. Having a hearing assistance dog in your life can help you live more independently and have confidence in life.
Tips for Including Family in Your Hearing Assessment Visit
Hearing loss not only affects the person who can’t hear, but it affects their loved ones as well. Often when a family member suffers from hearing loss, a communication breakdown can happen. When there is difficulty communicating, it can cause friction and put stress on some of the most critical relationships in your life. When you have family support you during your hearing loss is very important, and when you have a family member come to your audiologist visit, it can help your family understand your hearing loss on a deeper level.
Could Your Diet be Making Your Tinnitus Worse?
Sufferers of chronic tinnitus will do almost anything for some relief. While there is no scientific proof that certain foods can make your tinnitus worse, some tinnitus sufferers will testify that their tinnitus is always worse after they eat specific foods.
What Your Ears Reveal About Your Health – Part 2
As we revealed in What Your Ears Reveal About Your Health – Part 1, your ears can reveal a lot about your overall health. If you are experiencing new symptoms, it is important to discuss it with your physician and find out if it could expose anything else that you might not know about. It is always important to take the time to listen to what our body is telling us. In the second article of this two-part series, we discuss five more symptoms to be aware of.
Can Exercise Lead to Tinnitus?
Exercise is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your body and mind. However, a noisy gym combined with loud music can damage your hearing and lead to hearing loss or tinnitus. In this article, we explore how exercise can cause hearing loss or tinnitus.
What Your Ears Reveal About Your Health – Part One
Your ears can reveal a lot about your overall health. It is important to pay attention to other signs that your body might be trying to tell you. In the first article of this two-part series, we review the first five symptoms to pay attention.
How Hearing Loss Can Have an Effect on Our Body
Did you know that untreated hearing loss can affect your physical and mental health?When you have hearing loss, it not only changes how you hear the world around you, but it can also affect other parts of your body when left untreated for too long.