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Hearing Test Results Explained: What Do They Actually Mean for You?
If you’ve recently had a hearing test, the results are meant to answer a simple question: how is your hearing affecting your ability to understand the world around you? A hearing evaluation isn’t just one…
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High-Frequency Hearing Loss: Why It’s Common in Active Adults
An active life often includes more noise than people realize. Across Sacramento and California’s Central Valley, adults may spend years around workshop tools, agricultural equipment, recreational vehicles and crowded events without feeling that any one…
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Online Hearing Tests vs. In-Person Exams: What Sacramento Residents Should Know Before Booking
If you’re wondering whether an online hearing test is enough, the short answer is this: online hearing tests can be useful screening tools, but they do not provide the same level of information as a…
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When Is It Time to Get Your Hearing Checked After Noise Exposure?
Noise exposure is one of the leading causes of hearing loss, so it’s important to be proactive about your hearing health if you’ve been around noise recently. However, sometimes the effects of loud noise on…
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Why Hearing Seems Worse in Summer
This is a common concern for patients this time of year. It’s an interesting phenomenon, so let’s discuss why hearing can sometimes seem worse in the warm summer months. Congestion and Allergies Wandering around Sacramento…
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Cochlear Implants: Rediscover Your World
You’re never too old to try something new—and that includes improving your hearing. Thanks to Northwestern University’s cochlear implant program, Kitty Grutzmacher, 84, went from struggling to hear with hearing aids to finding auditory success…
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What Does “Ototoxic” Mean?
Many medications, both over-the-counter and prescription, are ototoxic. Oto means ear, and toxic means poisonous or damaging; the term literally means “poisonous to the ear.” This may seem scary at first, so let’s discuss ototoxic…
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Five Early Signs of Noise Damage
Noise-induced hearing loss is growing more common in our noisy world. Whether you attended a loud event with no hearing protection or work in a loud industry that gradually chips away at your hearing, if…
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Hearing Hazards at Summer Concerts and Festivals
Summertime in Sacramento is filled with live music events! There’s nothing like the energy of a concert or festival, everyone enjoying the music, and it’s exciting to see artists you know well and discover new…
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Hearing in Public Just Got Easier: What Auracast Means for People with Hearing Loss
A New Wireless Technology Is Changing How Hearing Aid Wearers Experience the World Around Them The announcement came over the airport speakers, and everyone around you moved with purpose. You caught about half of it.…
