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What Can Cause a Swishing Sound in Ear?
The Regain Hearing network of audiology clinics is a leading provider of medical services specializing in a wide range of audiological services, such as hearing tests, tinnitus treatment, earwax removal, and hearing aid fitting and adjustment. We are committed to empowering our patients with high-quality hearing health and improved quality of life; we help you rediscover the beauty of sound.
Jun 26, 2024


How to Get Rid of Tinnitus With Tinnitus Sound Therapy
Tinnitus sound therapy is an innovative, personalised and effective way to manage the often debilitating symptoms of tinnitus. Rather than masking the noises generated within your ears or trying to distract you, sound therapy filters out the noise, using dynamic treatments that alter how your brain perceives the sounds.
Jun 26, 2024


Can Headphones Cause Hearing Loss? Can hearing loss be reversed?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently shared some alarming news. It is thought that 1.1 billion young people are at risk of potentially life-altering hearing loss due to loud noise exposure. Wearing headphones can cause hearing loss, but it's not the headphones themselves that are the problem. It's the volume of the audio that the user is listening to that can lead to hearing damage. WHO defines this noise-induced hearing loss as being caused by either: Sustained expo
Jun 19, 2024


Loud Noise and Ruptured Eardrums: Can a loud noise burst your eardrum?
If you’ve been exposed to extremely loud noise, such as an explosion, or you stood beside massive speakers at a rock concert and now have pain in your ears and difficulty hearing properly, you may be suffering from a ruptured eardrum.
Jun 15, 2024


Do Earplugs cause tinnitus? Earplugs for tinnitus explained
In a modern world where we’ve become more aware, conscientious and proactive about addressing health risks, such as protecting our eyes from over-exposure to direct sunlight, our ears continue to remain almost entirely undefended. Sadly, this is leading to hearing loss caused by long-term exposure to loud noise, as well as conditions such as tinnitus, which is continuing to increase in the UK at an alarming rate.
Jun 5, 2024


The Ultimate Guide on How to Get Rid of Tinnitus
Tinnitus is often described as a low or high-pitch ringing, hissing, roaring, whooshing, buzzing or similar noise in one or both ears. It has no external source, and only the sufferer can hear it. The British Tinnitus Association (BTA) estimates that 1 in 8 (13.2%) people in the UK live with the condition.
Jun 4, 2024


Hearing Loss and Dementia: What Is the Link?
Healthy hearing is vital to living a fulfilling life, and even mild hearing loss has been scientifically proven to increase cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s and dementia. Hearing loss can make one feel isolated from friends and family and less likely to participate in social activities. It can begin as a minor problem but have severe consequences later on.
May 28, 2024


Do Hearing Aids Help Tinnitus? Tinnitus Masking Explained
Tinnitus can be incredibly frustrating and hard to get rid of, but hearing aids that mask the unwanted noise may help cancel it out. Do Hearing Aids Help Tinnitus? Tinnitus Masking Explained There’s no doubt about it — tinnitus can drive you crazy. The persistent ringing or buzzing in your ears can interfere with your life and take away that peace of mind you once had as the noise continues, even when you’re relaxing in a quiet place and trying to unwind. It’s something mill
May 19, 2024


Expert Guide: How to Prevent Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is exceptionally common. Around 5% of the world’s total population has severe and disabling hearing loss. In the UK alone, 12 million people suffer from hearing loss, which is roughly one in six.
May 17, 2024


How Does Hearing Loss Affect Daily Life?
Healthy hearing is vital to living a fulfilling life, and even mild hearing loss has been scientifically proven to increase cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s and dementia. Hearing loss can make one feel isolated from friends and family and less likely to participate in social activities. It can begin as a minor problem but have severe consequences later on.
Apr 28, 2024


Is there a test for tinnitus?
Exposure to many kinds of loud noises can damage the delicate parts of the ear responsible for hearing and cause hearing loss that’s temporary or even permanent. It can also lead to tinnitus, that ringing or buzzing sound in one or both ears that many people are unfortunately familiar with; it’s not actually a sound from the outside world at all, but it is frequently annoying if not infuriating.
Apr 25, 2024


How to Clean Your Ears Without Using Cotton Buds
The body produces earwax, also known as cerumen, to collect and trap dirt and bacteria in your ear. As a self-cleaning agent, removing earwax from your ear isn’t necessary. Inserting a cotton swab or any other object into your ear risks damaging the eardrum or ear canal.
Apr 22, 2024


6 Early Signs of Hearing Loss In Adults to Be Aware Of
Our health becomes a little more complicated as we get older. Changes are gradual, like differences in physical appearance down to eyesight and hearing loss. These changes rarely happen overnight, and the beginnings of an age-related hearing problem can be subtle.
Apr 15, 2024


Tinnitus Caused by Loud Noise: Is it permanent? Recovery tips
Exposure to many kinds of loud noises can damage the delicate parts of the ear responsible for hearing and cause hearing loss that’s temporary or even permanent. It can also lead to tinnitus, that ringing or buzzing sound in one or both ears that many people are unfortunately familiar with; it’s not actually a sound from the outside world at all, but it is frequently annoying if not infuriating.
Mar 26, 2024


Tinnitus and Dizziness: Is There a Link?
Tinnitus and dizziness are both relatively common symptoms, although having one doesn't necessarily mean you will develop the other. You could experience tinnitus and vertigo separately or because of different underlying factors. However, because both conditions are symptoms of possible ear health problems or dysfunction that impact hearing and balance, clients with concurrent dizziness and tinnitus may be able to achieve relief rapidly by using targeted therapy and treatmen
Mar 24, 2024


Can Tinnitus Be Cured in 2026?
Tinnitus is a common hearing disorder characterised by ringing or buzzing noises originating in your ear. Unfortunately, there is yet to be a decisive, permanent cure, but our ground-breaking tinnitus therapies have proven to be enormously effective, providing relief from symptoms in as little as one treatment. Regain Hearing speaks with thousands of clients who find that tinnitus makes it hard to focus or concentrate on conversations, disrupts their sleep cycle, and causes p
Feb 28, 2024


When Do I Need a Hearing Aid? What level of hearing loss requires a hearing aid?
Hearing aids are powerful tools for hearing loss treatment, but very few people who need them use them. According to UK charity HearingLink, around 7 million people could benefit from hearing aids, but only 2 million have them. One of our most frequently asked questions is ‘When do I need a hearing aid?’ and if you’ve started to wonder if you’re in that group of 5 million individuals who could see huge benefits from getting a hearing aid, read on. You may be asking this que
Feb 28, 2024


Does Tinnitus Go Away on it's own?
So does tinnitus go away, or is it permanent? The answer is not clear cut. Tinnitus can be a temporary reaction to very loud noise and has been associated with stress, but there is no way of knowing how long it will last.
Feb 3, 2024


Is Tinnitus a Disability?
Tinnitus – the common hearing condition where you experience ringing or buzzing noises – can be extremely serious and potentially limit your opportunities to work, operate a vehicle or communicate.
Jan 28, 2024


What Is Microsuction Ear Wax Removal? The Benefits, risks and side effects
In this post, we explain how microsuction ear wax removal works and why it is widely considered superior to syringing and is the most popular ear wax removal procedure.
Jan 24, 2024
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