1) Personal sound amplifiers are the same as hearing aids. These amplifiers were created for recreational activities, increasing overall volume rather than adapting to your environment the way hearing aids do. These devices can actually damage hearing rather than help it. 2) If I needed …
4 Ways Hearing Loss Impacts Your Life
There’s a common statistic that individuals with hearing loss wait an average of seven years before seeking treatment — and a lot can happen in those seven years. Hearing loss may have affected your life in any number of ways, including: Your Family In many …
Healthy Diets Support Hearing Health
Treatment for hearing loss comes in many forms, including the well-known use of hearing aids. Now a wealth of information from recent studies has suggested that adding specific vitamins, minerals, and nutrients to patients’ diets may head off the need for such devices later in …
5 Medical Factors That Could Lead to Hearing Loss
While hearing loss is most commonly caused by prolonged exposure to loud noises — also referred to as sensorineural hearing loss — a number of medical conditions can lead to hearing impairment as well. Fortunately, some of these medical conditions are reversible, allowing hearing to …
Diabetes and Your Hearing
A recent study from the National Institutes of Health has combined the results of 13 earlier diabetes studies and found that impaired hearing was twice as common among people with diabetes — yet many individuals with diabetes are still unaware of the link. It’s still …
5 Ways Better Hearing Can Improve Your Life
To many people, hearing loss is a topical problem with a topical solution: You can’t hear as well as you used to? Get hearing aids and you’ll be fine. But the reality is that hearing loss has far-reaching effects on all aspects of life — …
Bella Vista Hearing Center Honored for Exceptional Service at National Audiology Conference
Bella Vista Hearing Center has long been recognized as our area’s premier provider of quality hearing care, but the practice was further honored on September 20, 2014, when it was selected for the AudigyCertified™ Outstanding Practice Achievement Award at a national conference of independent hearing …
Listen Carefully This Football Season by Preserving Your Hearing
Try the New Smartphone SoundCheck App! With football season well under way, how has your hearing been treating you? If you’ve been to a college, NFL, or high school game this year, we hope you had a great time — and wore hearing protection! Sometimes …
Blunt-Force Trauma — Not Just Loud Noise — Can Cause Hearing Loss and Tinnitus, Too
September usually means a handful of things: Summer’s almost gone, the kids are going back to school, the holidays will be upon us before we know it (how many holiday shopping commercials have you seen already?), and football is finally back. The return of football …