We recommend regular hearing health check-ups for our hearing aid patients to ensure they are hearing as well as possible. A comprehensive hearing aid check-up includes: Annual Audiologic Evaluation. We always compare the results to previous hearing levels. If we...
Is Cigarette Smoking Harmful to Your Hearing?
A five-year study of 4000 subjects published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found smokers were 1.7 times more likely to have a significant hearing loss than non-smokers, after adjusting for age, history of cardiovascular disease, alcohol consumption...
Can Custom Programmed Hearing Aid Amplification Delay the Onset of Dementia and Depression?
Research scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Lin, 2013) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) have shown that untreated hearing loss (HL) significantly increases the likelihood of dementia, depression or anxiety, and injurious falls in adults. Someone...
Better Hearing for Better Living: The Gift of Automatic Hearing
People with normal hearing can hear automatically: It doesn’t take much effort and they don’t have to pay close attention. They don’t have to use much brainpower unless they’re in a group or a noisy environment. Most people with hearing...
Happy Birthday, Beethoven
Hearing Health News This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest figures in Western music. He was born in 1770, died in 1827 at the age of 56, and suffered a...
2020 Best of the Best
We’re Thankful to You for the Win What an honor! At Better Hearing Clinic, we are beyond proud to be named “2020 Best Hearing Center” by the Alton Telegraph and Edwardsville Intelligencer newspapers. Community members like you helped make this...
Can You Hear Your Smoke Alarm?
Hearing Health News The Fire Protection Research Foundation found that the high-pitched signal used by most smoke alarms failed to awaken 43% of individuals with hearing loss. A strobe light alerting device, used by many people with hearing loss, alerted...
Do You Have a Doctor’s Appointment?
Hearing Health News Poor communication, including from hearing loss, is one of the leading causes of error in medical diagnoses and treatments. Now that masks and face shields are commonplace, hearing and understanding are even more of a challenge. Here...
Continuing Education, But So Much More
Why did the whole team disappear for a couple of days recently? For continuing education at a virtual event called The Summit, which was put on by Audigy. If continuing education sounds kind of boring, rest assured it was anything...
Face Masks and You
Hearing Health News We’ve written previously about how helpful lipreading can be. No matter how well you hear, you get help from lipreading, even if you don’t realize it. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, though, many people are...