Keep Your Hearing Aids Safe from Your Pets
You and your dog share long walks and snuggles on the couch. But some things, like complex electronic devices, are just for you. Keeping your hearing aids safe from your pet is crucial. Not only are they expensive to replace, but your dog can get very sick from eating poisonous batteries. Below are some tips…
How Do Hearing Aids Work?
If you are one of the nearly 48 million Americans with hearing loss, chances are your audiologist has recommended the use of hearing aids. These complex electronic devices can help you hear sounds that you have not heard in years. Ever wonder how they do it? Four Key Components of Hearing Aids While hearing aids…
Hearing Aid Cleaning
Our team’s number one goal is to continue to see patients throughout the coming weeks. With this in mind, we are taking extra precautions to keep our team and patients safe and healthy within the clinic. We are closely following the latest from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including best practices for prevention in a clinical…
Can Hearing Loss Be Reversed?
In short – no, sensorineural hearing loss is permanent. But new research out of Boston is the first of its kind to find a new approach to regeneration of sensory hair cells and other inner ear cells in people with hearing loss. Understanding the Research Published online on December 4 in Nature Communications, teams led…
Why Active Reading to Children Matters
In this digital age, there are countless devices to distract us. But there are plenty of reasons why you should still make time for reading, especially with your children. Trust us – the time and focus it takes to read really is worth the effort. Reading a story out loud and engaging your child in…
Now Is the Time for Hearing Aids
Hearing loss is the third most common chronic physical condition in the U.S., behind only arthritis and heart disease. Unlike these other conditions, people with hearing loss typically wait 10 years after their initial diagnosis to seek treatment. David Owen, author of a new book called Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World hopes to…
Can Hearing Aids Improve Your Life?
Anyone who has hearing loss or knows someone who does understands how isolating the experience can be. Difficulty hearing affects your communication with family, friends and coworkers and can have a devastating impact on interpersonal relationships. If your hearing loss is untreated, you probably don’t even realize how much you’re missing. Studies show that hearing…
FAQs About Diabetes & Hearing Loss
For people with diabetes in Bellevue and Redmond, it’s more important than ever to get their blood sugar levels under control. In addition to complications such as neuropathy, kidney and heart disease and eye problems, they also have a higher risk of hearing loss. The Link Between Diabetes and Hearing Loss There’s been suspicion about…
Noise-Cancelling Headphones: A Safer Way to Listen to Music
If there’s a music aficionado in your life and you don’t know what to get for that person this Christmas, consider noise-cancelling headphones. They’re a gift that will keep giving by helping preserve that person’s hearing. Passive vs. Active Technology & The Battle Against Noise One out of five people in Redmond experiences hearing loss…and…
Hearing Tests: Who Should Get Them…and How Often?
If you’re like most people in Bellevue or Kirkland, you haven’t had a hearing test in a long time. This is understandable; when you are hearing fine, you’re not going to make a hearing exam a priority. Why fix what ain’t broke, right? The only problem is, your hearing might be “broke” without you realizing…