May 10, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
When you shower, always remember to wash your ears. Whenever you say that, you inescapably use your “parent voice”. Perhaps when you were a kid you even remember your parents telling you to do it. As you get wrapped up in past nostalgia, that sort of memory can take you back to simpler times. But […]
May 3, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
Do you know what a cyborg is? If you get swept up in science fiction movies, you probably think of cyborgs as sort of half-human, half machine characters (these characters are usually cleverly utilized to comment on the human condition). Hollywood cyborgs can seem wildly outlandish. But the truth is that, technically, anyone who wears […]
April 26, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
You go out of your way to ensure your hearing aids are well taken care of. When you go to bed, you always put them snuggly on the charger and you clean them daily. But you get pretty distressed when your hearing aids abruptly stop working the way they did once. There are a few […]
April 20, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
If you’re still using your older hearing aids, they may be better than no hearing aids, but they also may be costing you in some ways. Within the last few years, hearing aid technology has made substantial advancements. It’s changed to digital from analog, for one thing, and there are features today that weren’t even […]
April 12, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
Hearing loss is a common condition that can be alleviated easily with the use of hearing aids and assistive listening devices. But hearing loss is often ignored and untreated. This can result in greater depression rates and feelings of solitude in those who have hearing loss. And these feelings of depression and isolation can be […]
April 4, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
We used to call them books-on-tape, way back when. Back then, of course, we didn’t even have CDs let alone streaming services. Today, they have a much better name; audiobooks. With an audiobook, you can listen to the book as it’s being read by a narrator. It’s kind of like when you were a kid […]
March 29, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
Do you recall the old tale about Johnny Appleseed? In elementary school, you might have been taught that he traveled across the United States, bringing the gift of nourishing apples to every community he paid a visit to (you should eat apples because they’re good for you and that’s the moral of the story). That’s […]
March 22, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
Have you ever had your car break down in the middle of the highway? It’s not an enjoyable situation. Your car has to be safely pulled off the road. And then, for whatever reason, you probably open your hood and take a look at your engine. Humorously, you still do this despite the fact that […]
March 14, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
There are three types of people out there: those who are very interested and fascinated by history, those whose eyes glaze over and they start to fall asleep when history is discussed, and people who believe that aliens are responsible for history. Aliens aren’t behind the history of hearing aids. But the true story is […]
March 8, 2023 | Eastside Audiology & Hearing Services
As we get older, we all know that hearing loss and particular mental health challenges can worsen in spite of a healthy, active lifestyle. And a strong link between the two has been discovered by scientists which should never be dismissed. So don’t turn off that hearing aid. Depression is twice as likely in individuals […]
