By Samantha in Activism, Active Lifestyle, Featured, Prevention, Hearing Loss | 0 Comments
Hearing loss is a serious health hazard for veterans. Consider this:
More than 45,000 vets from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom have hearing loss.
Of the 300,000 vets from the post 9/11/01 conflict, tinnitus is the #1 disability and hearing loss is #2.
35% of returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan have hearing loss.
Any decibel above […]
By Samantha in Activism, Featured, Hearing Loss | 0 Comments
Hearing impairment is often referred to as a hidden handicap. The larger community around us - the clerks at the grocery store, the new neighbor, a friend of a friend - will have no idea based on our physical attibutes that we are hard-of-hearing. Even with our hearing corrected, sometimes the situation is such that we […]
By Samantha in Testing, Hearing Loss | 0 Comments
Recognizing that one is hearing impaired can be a difficult thing. Environmental factors can mask hearing loss and as a result, this impairment can start out so subtle, one might not realize that they have hearing loss. However, statistics prove that the quicker one corrects hearing loss, the happier, healthier one will be.
Here are 9 questions […]
