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Hearing Loss · · 4 min read
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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Hearing Loss · · 4 min read
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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Hearing Loss · · 4 min read
"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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Hearing Loss · · 4 min read
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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Hearing Loss · · 4 min read
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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Hearing Loss · · 3 min read
Can You Beat Hearing Loss FC? Meet the Starting Eleven Keeping You on the Sidelines
Every great football team has a starting eleven, a lineup carefully chosen to exploit every weakness in the opposition. But what happens when the opposition is you, and the team you're up against is your own declining hearing?
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Hearing Loss · · 4 min read
How We Can Help You Hear Football on TV and Enjoy it With the Family Again
here's something genuinely special about watching football with the people you love. The collective groans at a missed penalty, the eruption of cheers when your team scores, the post-match debate over who played well and who didn't...It's one of life's great shared experiences. But for the millions of people in the UK living with hearing loss, that experience has quietly slipped away, often without them even realising it was going
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Hearing Loss · · 4 min read
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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Hearing Loss · · 9 min read
Can I claim PIP for hearing loss and deafness? Government payment eligibility explained.
If your hearing loss leaves you struggling with specific tasks, you could be eligible for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) — whether you’re claiming other benefits, working or have savings.
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Hearing Loss · · 5 min read
Experiencing a Whooshing Sound in Your Ear – Is it Dangerous?
If your hearing loss leaves you struggling with specific tasks, you could be eligible for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) — whether you’re claiming other benefits, working or have savings.
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Hearing Loss · · 5 min read
Why Do I Have So Much Ear Wax All of a Sudden?
Do you have ear wax build up all of a sudden? If you’ve noticed you have more ear wax than usual, it could be down to a number of reasons, and in most cases, it is linked to something simple such as an ear infection, a lack of regular cleaning, your age or the amount of hair that grows within your ears. Ear wax is a normal, harmless substance that our bodies produce to protect against germs and bacteria. It's water-repellent and prevents the delicate inner part of our ears from becoming dry,...
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Hearing Loss · · 9 min read
Partially Deaf in one ear? 8 Causes of hearing loss in one ear
As we get older, hearing loss becomes an increasing problem. It occurs gradually as you age and is known as presbycusis. Over 11 million people are affected by hearing loss in the UK, making it a common issue, especially amongst the older population.
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