Noise Induced Hearing loss. How loud is too loud? In today’s fast-paced world, noise has become an unavoidable part of our daily lives. From Melbourne’s bustling city streets to the constant hum of machinery of the neighbourhood construction, we are surrounded...
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HEARING AND COMORBIDITIES FOR ADULTS OVER 50 As we gracefully age, our bodies go through various changes, and certain health concerns become more prevalent. Among these, hearing loss and ear health are often overlooked but play a significant...
Do your Ears Deceive you? This month marks World Hearing Day (3rd March) and Hearing Awareness Week (1st-7th March) in Australia. Both are significant events to raise community awareness about hearing loss. On average it takes someone seven to ten years to seek out...
When we start thinking about wearing a hearing aid, we tend to envisage a device that sits either behind or inside our ear. We understand that sound will be amplified and sent by the hearing aid into our ear the same way sound normally travels – through air...
The Relationship Between Hearing and Balance How do your ears effect your balance? Our inner ear is made up of two parts: the cochlea, the organ of hearing, and the vestibular system, responsible for one portion of our balance system known as the vestibular system....
Masks Continue to Challenge Hearing and Communication Unless your main form of communication is online, communicating with someone not wearing a mask is pretty rare these days. We all need to be doing our bit to protect others from the transmission of the COVID 19...
