Proper stimulation of your brain, thanks to your ears, is a major component in maintaining cognitive health and keeping dementia at bay.
Your capacity to interact with your family, friends and neighbors is a major contributor to your mental health and a critical factor for an independent and rewarding quality of life.
Because your ears are so important to your overall health and daily living, protecting them against damage for as long as possible should be among your healthcare priorities.
Why Hearing Protection Is Important
Age deterioration, various diseases, ototoxic medications, head traumas, birth defects and other causes all contribute to hearing loss. However, one of the most common causes of hearing loss is ongoing exposure to loud noise (noise-induced hearing loss, or NIHL).
Hearing professionals consider exposure to loud music, either live or through headphones, to be particularly dangerous with sound intensity levels reaching 100 to 115 decibels (dB). However, ongoing or frequent exposure to sound levels above 85 decibels (the sound of an idling bulldozer) for 8 hours a day can also cause permanent, irreparable hearing loss.
While hearing loss is irreversible, that doesn’t mean it’s not preventable. Knowledge, hearing protection, and prevention can help keep your hearing healthy. Highline Hearing Professionals are here to help you protect your hearing with custom hearing protection.
Custom-molded earplugs offer a degree of comfort and sound protection that is not available with generic earplugs. Additional benefits of custom protection include:
Generic Products
Poor Fit
Generic hearing protection often doesn’t fit securely, leading to discomfort and the potential for sound leakage.
Compromised Frequency Response
Generic options distort sound quality, making it harder to hear accurately even at reduced volumes.
No Venting System
Most generic earplugs lack venting, causing muffling and reverberation of your own voice inside your ears.
Inconsistent Protection
Generic options provide broad, non-specific noise reduction that may muffle sound excessively or inadequately protect in certain situations.
Low-Quality Materials
Typically made from cheaper materials, generic protection can cause irritation and discomfort over extended use.
Limited Customization
No replaceable filters mean you’re stuck with a fixed level of sound reduction, which might not suit various environments or needs.
Custom
Secure
Ensuring that your hearing protection stays in place with a more secure fit.
Accurate
Designed to retain accurate frequency response, so you’ll hear the full range of sounds but at a reduced volume.
Ventilated
Venting allows sound to pass both ways, eliminating reverberation of your own voice inside your ears.
Precise
Specific, measurable protection with precision-engineered filters for clear, unmuffled, and natural sound.
Durable
Medical-grade silicone allows for extended periods of time without discomfort.
Adjustable
Several models offer replaceable sound filters in order to select the level of sound protection you need for situations with 10, 15, 17, 20, 26, or 27 dB sound reduction.
In-Ear Studio Monitors for Musicians
According to several studies, musicians are four times more likely to suffer from hearing loss than the general public due to their profession. In addition to the hours spent practicing with their instruments, concerts regularly exceed 110 dB, which is loud enough to cause hearing damage in a matter of minutes.
Musicians who do not wear hearing protection face the likelihood of hearing loss at an early age, and place their careers at risk in the process.
Highline Audiology and Hearing Aids ‘in-ear musicians’ monitors are custom-fit to the unique contours of your ear, providing a comfortable fit for your entire performance. The snug but comfortable seal ensures that you only hear sounds through your monitors at a safe volume that won’t damage your hearing, but with the tone quality you require.
Hearing Protection for Hunting
Ear Protection for Swimmers
Though swimming doesn’t produce NIHL, ear protection for swimmers is an important part of protecting your ears against swimmer’s ear, surfer’s ear, and eardrum ruptures.
Ear protection for swimmers helps your ears equalize the pressure in your ears while underwater, and are custom fit to create tight seals that keep the ear canal dry.
Regular swimmers, or those who spend several hours per week performing activities in water, are encouraged to be fit for ear protection. Our practice specializes in finding the right ear protection solutions for you.
A lack of sleep can lead to psychiatric troubles and is tied to a multitude of other health issues. Poor sleep often means that you go to work tired, have low energy, poor concentration, decreased productivity and are more stressed than you otherwise would have been.
Though sleeping does not usually pose a threat to your ears, many people strive for but struggle with getting a good night’s sleep for one reason or another. Our practice believes in taking charge of what you can control, like blocking out nighttime noises that keep you awake when you should be resting deeply.
Whether it’s the result of street noise, loud neighbours, or a snoring partner, our custom-fit ear protection is so comfortable, you’ll barely know it’s there — because you’ll be sleeping too soundly to notice.
Let Us Protect Your Ears
Your ears are essential to helping you communicate with the world around you, ensuring better mental and physical health, and ensuring that you’re able to live an independent and rewarding lifestyle. Protecting them from damage as long as possible is an essential element in the hearing care we provide.
If you or a loved one is at risk of developing noise induced hearing loss or are in need of protection for swimming or sleeping, complete and submit the adjacent form, and we’ll help you schedule a custom hearing protection appointment.
