Why Early Spring Is the Perfect Time for a Hearing Test
Spring is such a lovely time of year, and it’s wonderful to watch the world come back to life after a cold winter. This is a perfect time of year to slough off the winter blues, refresh your routines and feel yourself bloom along with the flora. To that end, it’s a great idea to…
Preparing Your Hearing Aids for Tampa’s Spring Humidity
We’re nearing the end of February, and the humid spring months are not too far in the future. If you’re one of the 28.8 million people who need hearing aids, you are probably already aware that moisture and hearing aids don’t mix. However, it can be easy to forget that humidity is a form of…
Reasons to Upgrade Your Hearing Aids
Your hearing aids are crucial to your quality of life, and they’re a significant investment. But just like any critical technology, from your cell phone to your car to your laptop, the time may come when you need to upgrade your devices. How Often Should I Upgrade My Hearing Aids? The answer to this question…
How Cold Weather and Humidity Affect Hearing Aid Performance
When you get your first pair of hearing aids, you’ll spend a little bit of time acclimating to the new sounds and learning how to care for your devices. One factor that can affect your hearing aids is the climate—specifically, the relative temperature and humidity in your environment. Caring For Your Hearing Aids in Cold…
Resolve to Protect Your Hearing 2026
Many common New Year’s Resolutions feature your health: exercise more, eat healthier, lose weight, quit smoking. One overlooked aspect of your health that might benefit from some intentionality in 2026 is your hearing health. The Prevalence of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), as the name implies, is damage to one’s hearing that occurs…
Reconnecting Through Conversation: End-of-Year Communication Goals
As the year winds down and we gather with family and loved ones for holidays and New Year’s, let’s reflect on communication. Humans are social creatures, and communication is our primary way of connecting to one another. We’ve compiled some communication goals and strategies to carry into those holiday parties and into next year. Cheers…
Reflecting on a Year of Better Hearing
Now that December is here, we’re preparing for the end of 2025 and looking forward to 2026. We at have been thrilled to be a part of your hearing journey, and we would like to take this moment to reflect on how better hearing has made a positive difference. Celebrating Hearing Successes Clearer hearing has…
Tips for Hearing Clearly at Family Gatherings
The holiday season is upon us! Next week is Thanksgiving, an excellent time to connect with loved ones and enjoy delicious food. However, those lively dinner discussions can get loud, and for those with hearing loss, it can be frustrating or overwhelming to follow the conversation. We’ve compiled some tips to help you enjoy Thanksgiving…
Strengthening Communication Through Hearing Changes
Approximately 13% of people in the United States aged 12 or over have hearing loss in both ears. Hearing loss reshapes the intimate relationships in your life. While hearing aids significantly improve speech understanding, practicing good communication techniques to help understand those around you is still important. Let’s take a look at some communication tips…
What Tinnitus Sounds Like
No one can agree on what tinnitus sounds like (just like they can’t agree on how it’s pronounced). It’s commonly described as “ringing in the ears,” but there’s much more variability than that. In fact, one frustration of many sufferers of tinnitus is that they struggle to describe what it is they hear when they…