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Noise Induced Hearing Loss

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Talking to Family & Friends About Hearing Loss

While convincing someone to seek help for hearing loss is the right thing to do, it is not always an easy conversation to have. Understanding how hearing loss affects people coupled with some tips on having “the talk”, will make the process smoother and more likely to have a positive outcome. Understanding Hearing Loss: Hearing

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Musicians: 4 Fold Risk of Noise Induced Hearing Loss

Over the past several years the news has revealed an increasing number of musicians struggling with hearing loss. Rock icons and classical musicians alike are revealing the toll excessively loud music has had on their hearing and subsequently their career. The saddest part is: Noise induced hearing loss is 100% preventable. According to an article

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5 Tips: How to Safely Enjoy Music for A Lifetime

We love music and if your reading this, you likely do to. Thanks to the ubiquitous smartphone we can conveniently enjoy our favorite tunes any time we want for hours on end. The only downside is we can also enjoy our music as loud as we want and that can cause irreversible noise induced hearing

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Motorcycling: How Loud Is It?

With Ride For Dad 2017 just around the corner, we decided to run another our informal test to measure the effects of riding a motorcycle on our hearing.   How Loud is Too Loud? Other than work related hearing loss, our leisure time activities are the greatest risk factors when it comes to noise induced

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Snowmobiling: How Loud Is It?

Do the response over our previous blog post about noise induced hearing loss Logan (2017): How Loud is it?, we decided to run another informal experiment to see how snowmobiling would affect our hearing. Despite dealing with hearing loss on daily basis I was shocked at how much temporary hearing loss was incurred. Kerry H.

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