October 15, 2024

Insights for Your Hearing Health

Get trusted tips, insights, and hearing health updates from your hearing care team.

Whether you’re exploring solutions for the first time or a long-time hearing aid user, our experts at Van Doorne Hearing Care are here to offer advice and resources to support your journey.

Could Earbuds be Damaging Your Ears?

Have you ever lost your earbuds? (Or, perhaps, inadvertently left them in the pocket of a pullover that went through the laundry?) Suddenly, your morning jog is so much more boring. Your commute or bus ride is dreary and dull. And the audio quality of your virtual meetings suffers significantly. Sometimes, you don’t realize how

Sudden Hearing Loss: Act Fast to Save Your Hearing

We normally think of hearing loss as something that develops slowly. This can make the symptoms easy to miss. It’s nothing to worry about, you just need the volume on the TV a bit louder, no big deal, right? That’s usually the situation, yes, but not always. It turns out hearing loss can also happen

If You Have Sudden Hearing Loss, It’s Important to Act Fast

Hearing loss has a track record for developing slowly. It can be easy to miss the symptoms because of this. It’s nothing to worry about, you just need the volume on the TV a bit louder, no big deal, right? That’s normally the situation, yes, but not always. Sometimes, hearing loss can happen all of

Hearing Aids: What Users Really Think, and Why You Should Care

Most individuals are happy with their hearing aids: According to one recent survey, when speaking one-on-one, 91% of individuals who use hearing aids are satisfied with their experience. When talking about specific activities, 85% were satisfied in a group setting and watching TV, 78% while shopping, and 75% in a restaurant or on the phone.

Improve Mental Function With These 5 Enjoyable Activities

As your body gets older, it’s not hard to detect the changes. You get wrinkles. Your hair turns gray (or falls out). Your joints begin to stiffen. Some drooping of the skin starts to take place in certain places. Maybe your eyesight and your hearing both start to diminish a little. These signs are tough

Hearing Test Audiograms and How to Read Them

Determining hearing loss is more complex than it might at first seem. If you’re suffering from hearing loss, you can probably hear certain things clearly at a lower volume, but not others. Most letters might sound clear at any volume but others, like “s” and “b” may get lost. When you figure out how to

Three Basic Steps to Lessen Hearing Loss

Isn’t pizza interesting? As long as a few factors are met, you can switch toppings, cheese, and sauce, and it’s still a pizza. That’s similar to hearing loss. Symptoms and manifestations are caused by numerous different problems, loud noises, genetics, age, or ear obstructions, but as long as you have difficulty detecting sounds, it’s still

Your Risk of Getting Dementia Could be Decreased by Having Regular Hearing Tests

Dementia and hearing loss, what’s the connection? Brain health and hearing loss have a link which medical science is beginning to understand. Your risk of getting cognitive decline is higher with even minor hearing loss, as it turns out. Researchers think that there might be a pathological connection between these two seemingly unrelated health problems.

Why is the Buzzing in my Ears Worse at Night?

Tinnitus tends to get worse at night for the majority of the millions of people in the US that suffer with it. But why should this be? The ringing is a phantom sound caused by some medical disorder like hearing loss, it’s not an external sound. But none of that information can give a reason

Have a Safe And Enjoyable Vacation Even if You’re Dealing With Hearing Loss

There are two kinds of vacations, right? There’s the type where you cram every single activity you can into every single moment. These are the vacations that are recalled for years later and are packed with adventure, and you head back to work more worn out than you left. The other kind is all about

When You’re Hospitalized, Hearing Loss Can Cause Complications

Tom is getting a brand new knee and he’s super pumped! Hey, the things you look forward to change as you get older. He will be capable of moving around more freely and will experience less pain with his new knee. So Tom is admitted, the operation is a success, and Tom heads home! That’s