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When to Seek Help for Tinnitus: Warning Signs You Shouldn’t Ignore
Because tinnitus is a subjective condition, it can be incredibly difficult to know when you’ve reached a point where medical intervention has become necessary. It’s tempting to believe that you can live with it, that…
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How Sleep, Stress and Diet Impact Tinnitus Symptoms
Tinnitus is a persistent ringing in the ears that affects millions of people. If you’re one of them, you know that the sound of tinnitus can spike in volume at random. There are many things…
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Daily Strategies to Manage Tinnitus at Home
Finding relief from the ever-present sounds of tinnitus can be incredibly difficult. However, there are some strategies you can use in your daily life that can help manage or minimize your perception of the ringing.…
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Why Loud Summer Events in Portland Can Trigger Ringing in Your Ears
Summer festivals, concerts, parades and outdoor celebrations are part of what makes Portland such a fun place to be. But if you’ve ever noticed ringing, buzzing or humming in your ears after a loud event,…
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What Is Tinnitus? Causes, Common Triggers and Finding Relief
What is tinnitus? Is it pronounced TINN-itus or tin-EYE-tus? What does it sound like, exactly? What causes it? Can you turn it off? How bad is it? We’re here to answer questions about tinnitus. Let’s…
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What You Need to Know About Ototoxicity
It’s no secret that most medications can have certain side effects. In fact, many medications can cause damage to the structures within your ear as a potential side effect. These medications are known as ototoxic…
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Can Treating Hearing Loss Improve Balance and Reduce Fall Risk?
The inner ear isn’t just the seat of the auditory system; it’s the location of the main balance organ, as well. Because these two systems live so close together, they are intimately connected. This means…
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How Hearing Loss Impacts Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a great time to reflect on the many facets of mental health and how we can take care of ourselves mentally and emotionally. As hearing health professionals, we’d like…
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Hearing Health is Part of Overall Health: How Other Health Conditions May Affect Hearing
Sometimes it’s easy to believe that health conditions are isolated to one part of the body. But that’s not true; for example, heart disease doesn’t just affect the heart. Health conditions like these are complex…
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National Speech-Language-Hearing Month: Connecting People
It’s May, which means it’s National Speech-Language-Hearing Month(NSLHM)! Formerly known as Better Hearing and Speech Month, NSLHM is a time when the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) joins with the American…
