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Can Diabetes Affect Hearing?
Diabetes is well known for its effects on the heart, eyes, kidneys and nerves, but its impact on hearing is far less widely discussed, despite the connection being well established.
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What Happens If Hearing Loss Is Untreated?
Hearing loss rarely arrives all at once. It tends to creep in gradually, a missed word here, a conversation you have to ask about twice there, until it becomes part of everyday life without ever feeling urgent enough to act on. But leaving hearing loss unaddressed doesn't mean things stay the same.
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How Often Should Hearing Be Tested?
Just like eye tests or dental check-ups, hearing tests should be a regular part of your health routine, yet for many people, they're the appointment that keeps getting put off.
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Confused About Your Tinnitus? Here's How an Assessment Can Finally Give You Answers
If you've been living with tinnitus for any length of time, you've probably heard some version of the same sentence: "There's no cure, I'm afraid. You'll just have to learn to live with it." Maybe it came from your GP. Maybe your ENT specialist said it after a five-minute chat. Either way, it tends to leave people with more questions than answers.
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"There's No Cure for Tinnitus" – So Why Are We Your Answer?
We hear it all the time: "There's no cure for tinnitus, so what exactly are you offering?" It's a fair question, and one we get asked constantly, often by people who've been living with tinnitus for years and have simply been told to "learn to live with it."
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Why Sound Engineering Research Holds the Key to Treating Tinnitus
Most tinnitus advice comes from an audiology background alone, and understandably so. But tinnitus isn't just a hearing problem. At its core, it's a sound problem, an internal one, generated somewhere in the ear or the brain. And understanding sound itself, how it's produced, mixed, filtered and manipulated, has turned out to be just as important as understanding hearing when it comes to treating it effectively.
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What is Tinnitus and Where Does It Come From? The Three Places It Can Start in Your Ear
If you've got tinnitus, one of the first questions worth asking isn't "how do I get rid of this?", it's "where is this actually coming from?" Tinnitus isn't a sound arriving from the outside world. It's generated internally, somewhere within the ear itself, and pinning down exactly where is the first real step towards treating it properly rather than just living alongside it.
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The Best Hearing Aids for Watching Football Live at the Ground
There's nothing quite like matchday. The smell of the grass, the roar of the crowd, the collective intake of breath as a ball curls toward the top corner. For millions of fans across the UK, watching football live at the ground is one of life's great pleasures.
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Hearing Is a Full Body Sport
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month. And honestly? I had to look that up. Did you know the observance dates back to 1927, when ASHA (the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) began promoting a hearing and speech awareness campaign? Nearly a 100 years of awareness and somehow I still have to explain why I need you to face me when you talk. Well, we keep going.
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The Changing Seasons of Sound
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about seasons. Not just the weather kind, although April is doing its usual thing with rain, a bit of sun, some cold, and everything in between. But the kind of seasons that reflect growth. The ones that quietly remind you that change is happening, even when it does not feel like it.
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Can Hearing Loss Cause Dementia?
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.
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Why Has My Ear Been Clogged for Days? Reasons Your Ears Are Clogged
Table of Contents 1. Common Reasons for Clogged Ears That Don’t Self-Correct 2. Clogged Ears and Buildups of Ear Wax 3. Ear Infections and a Feeling of Clogged Ears 4. Eustachian Tube Blockages and Clogged Ears 5. High Altitudes and Their Connection With Clogged Ears 6. What do our Audiologists say? 7. How to Treat Ears That Have Been Clogged for a Few Days 8. When to Book a Hearing Check Due to Clogged Ears Ears usually feel clogged due to a buildup of ear wax, although you can also...
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