{"id":2755,"date":"2011-09-13T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.everhear.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2011-09-13T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:52:42","slug":"musical-instruments-good-for-your-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/musical-instruments-good-for-your-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Instruments: good for your ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA new study published in Psychology and Aging, shows that playing a musical instrument throughout your life protects your hearing in old age. The results showed a 70 year-old musician&#8217;s hearing was as good as a 50 year-old who did not play, showing a significant difference in the musicians ability to pick out sound against another noise. The researchers suggest that lifelong musicianship mitigates age-related changes in the brain, probably due to musicians using their auditory systems at a high level on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>While the study suggests that musicians might be more able to cope with the consequences of hearing loss, the importance of also preserving the ear through <a href=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/hearing\/hearing-protection\/\">ear protection<\/a> is still incredibly important to these musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-14882394\">here<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Psychology and Aging, shows that playing a musical instrument throughout your life protects your hearing in old age. The results showed a 70 year-old musician&#8217;s hearing was as good as a 50 year-old who did not play, showing a significant difference in the musicians ability to pick out sound against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[12,189,298,666,13,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}