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These news and tips posts from Lincoln Hearing Clinic are designed to help you better understand and to find ways to live with hearing loss successfully in your daily life.
Dealing with a hearing loss can be challenging, but what makes it even more difficult is trying to speak with someone who isn’t using good communication techniques. Here are some tips we have compiled for communicating with someone with a hearing loss.
Hearing aids can be worn in all seasons, but they need some special considerations when the weather gets cold and snowy. Here are 5 tips for extra hearing aid care in the winter.
Brand new patient-led research from MIT and Massachusetts Eye and Ear suggests that Covid-19 can infect the inner ear potentially causing tinnitus, deafness, and dizziness.
With the winter coming and recent news of the US land border opening for fully vaccinated travelers, many people will be traveling in the next couple months. Here are some tips we've compiled for traveling with hearing loss.
Thanksgiving is coming up and for many people, that means gathering with family, catching up with them, and sitting down and having a nice meal together. For those living with a hearing loss, this can sometimes be challenging and bring up a lot of concerns about being able to take part in conversation. Here are 5 tips to help make communicating easier in these situations.
Exploring the parallels between "Zoom fatigue" and the issues people with hearing loss experience daily.
Ears and hearing health affects the overall health of a person in so many ways, even ones that may not seem connected at first. One of those ways is a person’s sense of balance and spatial awareness.
Over the last year, COVID-19 has been affecting people’s health in numerous ways both during the infection and afterwards. One question that concerns people is: can COVID-19 cause hearing loss?
We had to share the story of this little boy from a local family! He was born with an underdeveloped right ear and a closed ear canal. This year he will be receiving surgery in California to rebuild his ear and open the canal so he can learn to hear while he’s still young!
Being able to communicate is essential for forming and maintaining relationships. Studies have shown that people with untreated hearing loss can have serious emotional and social consequences that can lead to isolation, depression, and anxiety.
SoundWatch: A new, innovative smartwatch app that alerts deaf and hard-of-hearing people to the sounds around them.
Exposure to cigarette smoke whether directly or secondhand can harm your hearing health.
The number of children and teens that have a hearing loss has grown in recent years. A major factor is noise-induced hearing loss, specifically the excessive use of headphones and earbuds.
To prevent the spread of infection during the Covid-19 pandemic, people are encouraged to wear masks when out in public. The standard mask design can pose a problem to those that have a hearing loss. Here are some alternative mask designs to help those that have hearing loss.
Understanding what Tinnitus is, the causes, and how to manage if you're experiencing it.
Hearing loss is not generally something patients think about when they’re about to undergo cancer treatment, but it is a very real and serious side effect. Both chemotherapy and radiation can cause tinnitus and hearing loss.
Planning on spending time outdoors this winter? Remember to protect your ears and keep them warm! Cold air can cause serious damage your ears.
Communication is the key to healthy relationships. Hearing loss can cause important interactions to be lost.