The Journal of Pediatrics recently released a study on how much people understand about hearing loss and the intentional exposure to loud music.
The objective of the study was to compare awareness of music-induced hearing loss to the behavior trends. The article states that they believe that music-induced hearing loss is an unconsciously self-inflicted public health [...]
Apparently, it’s one thing to say your place of employment has a hearing protection program and another to actually ensure it is protecting employees properly.
A new review of existing employer hearing protection programs seems to indicate that there is little evidence to support the workplace programs. That doesn’t mean that workers don’t wear earplugs and [...]
Nothing replaces a thorough hearing examination with an audiologist, a physician specially trained to evaluate, detect, and then treat various forms of hearing loss or hearing impairments. However, there are many tools on the market that help raise flags that hearing may be impacted and to serve as initial screens for hearing wellness.
Surprisingly, there are [...]
A few weeks ago we shared a great tip on how to set your iPod’s volume limit and today we want to let you know why having a volume limit is important for your hearing wellness.
If you work in an environment that has any amount of ambient noise like fingers on keyboards or loud phone [...]
With the popularity of portable music players like the iPod, many people have started to live their lives to their own personal soundtrack. However, the damage done to your hearing by playing loud music directly into your ears is a real danger. If you are in an area that is already loud you may be [...]
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