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Since their debut in the marketplace, iPods have revolutionized the way we listen to music. iPod hard drives store up to 300 hours of music, batteries last for 12 hours, and the volume can be cranked up to 120 decibels. That’s louder than a chain saw or pneumatic drill, and equivalent to a jet plane taking off! But iPod fans are being warned to turn their music down. Even manufacturer, Apple, includes a cautionary note with every iPod, warning, “permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or headphones are used at high volume.”

Currently, 16 million baby boomers have hearing loss and the number is expected to surge to 78 million by 2030. Amazingly, nearly three-quarters of them admit that they have never visited a doctor or hearing health specialist to have a hearing test. In spite of this lack of concern, there are higher boomers aged 46 to 64 with hearing loss than seniors over the age of 65 with the same condition, and hearing loss among baby boomers is 26 percent increased common than in previous generations.

Loud music and noise causes hearing loss by damaging the delicate hair nerve cells in the cochlea, a part of the inner ear that helps transmit sound impulses to the brain. These hair cells often recover from temporary damage. However, permanent damage can occur with prolonged exposure to extremely loud or moderately loud noise. When these nerve hair cells are destroyed, irreversible hearing loss results.

Many people who listen to iPods in noisy environments pump up the volume to dangerous levels to drown out background noise. Busy city hubs and subway noise (around 90 decibels) are already sufficiently loud to cause permanent damage with considerable exposure. Although the damage from chronic exposure to these sound levels is generally slow, it is cumulative. Music lovers who tolerate noise levels above 85 decibels for long periods will end up with irreversible hearing loss.

Here are five steps you can take to protect yourself from hearing loss:

1. Limit the volume of your iPod to 60 decibels (db), about two-thirds of the maximum volume.
2. Try to limit listening to no increased than 60 minutes a day.
3. Wear sound-isolating or noise-canceling headphones that fit over the ear, instead of ear buds that are inserted directly in the ear. This is because when using ear buds, you still hear the external noise. You turn up the volume to drown out the noise, boosting the sound signals by as much as six to nine decibels over the noise. You can hear the music from your iPod, but you are unaware of the excessive volume.
4. Take advantage of the free download Apple is now offering for the iPod Nano, and iPod models with video-playback capabilities. The download contains a setting to limit the volume.
5. If you are experiencing tinnitus (ringing in the ears), muffled sound after listening to your iPod, or you are having difficulty hearing conversations, visit to a physician and take a hearing test.

During my first 20 years in hearing health practice, our clientele were cardinally seniors around 75 years of age. However, over the past 10 years, I have noticed a huge difference in our clientele. Nowadays, baby boomers of all ages are making appointments, and most of them have noise-induced hearing loss.

Loud rock music and living life ‘full on’ in an amplified noisy society have contributed to hearing loss amongst baby boomers. Nevertheless, if we follow the iPod 60-60 Protection Plan, we can enjoy our iPods and continue to live life to the fullest.

About the Author

Randy Wohlers BC HIS, is the founder of http://www.myhearpod.com, the first online baby boomer 100% digital hearing aids solutions company for baby boomers. Boomer Wohlers owns six of the largest hearing health practices in Hawaii, and publishes the monthly ezine “Baby Boomer Hearing Aid Solutions.” Visit MyHearPod.com today and take the complimentary HearPod hearing test.

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ome to the Age of Bionic Hearing!

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(ARA) – Better. Stronger. Faster. That was the promise made by those fictional techno-doctors who used their imaginary electronic wizardry to reconstruct Jaime Sommers’ character into The Bionic Woman. Fiction back in the 1970s — today, a reality. Many of the body’s functions that have been either damaged or lost can be restored with technology so advanced, it would make even those fictional doctors green with envy.

For those who are baby boomers, we have two things in common. First, we probably all remember that television show! Second, we have spent the better part of our lives unwittingly destroying our hearing. Noise exposure in today’s society has risen to such an intense and pervasive level that significant and permanent hearing loss by late-middle age is the rule, not the exception. Without The Bionic Woman’s doctors to outfit us with a supersensitive bionic ear, what are we to do?

The only solution available to most Americans with hearing damage is hearing aids. However, this alternative is not without criticism. In fact, the necessary disadvantage of conventional hearing aids comes from the fact that they typically make every noise louder. Therefore, a car honking, a jet on takeoff, even a concert recording, all become unbearable to an individual wearing traditional hearing instruments. No wonder so many people fitted with these aids leave them in a dresser drawer! However, hearing-health leader GN ReSound has developed an answer to this issue.

GN ReSound has been in the business of creating hearing-health solutions for farther than 50 years. Its latest advancement, based on extensive research with traditional hearing aids and its own efforts to digitize sound, has resulted in the Canta7 (pronounced Cn-ta) product line. Featuring “3D Digital” Technology, this innovation digitally reconstructs sound. What does that mean? Bottom line — its smart technology knows the difference between noise and speech. With this new system, noises are not amplified, and speech is clarified. Big difference.

Hearing loss has reached epidemic proportions, with innumerable than 28 million in the United States alone who cannot distinguish words such as fork, torque and short — it’s the initial consonants of “f,” “t” and “s” that throw them off. In addition, the number of younger people facing damage is steadily increasing, raising the concerns of those in the hearing health care industry and government health organizations. So if you missed out on the “protect your hearing” message, you’re now faced with the message “correct your hearing.” And to do that, the bionic opportunities have never been better.

That’s where GN ReSound’s exclusive advancement — 3D Digital Technology — comes into the picture. Today, with the incorporation of digital technology and the use of micro-miniature computer processors, hearing-impaired patients can be fitted with sophisticated hearing instruments. They analyze incoming sounds; isolate and actually suppress the noise; digitally reconstruct speech to make it recognizable to the impaired ear; and virtually eliminate that awful, high-pitched squeal of feedback often associated with basic-level hearing aids.

“I’ve been in the hearing health care field for many years and seen constant innovations and upgrades to hearing aids,” said audiologist Dr. Jim McDonald, past president of a national audiology organization. “However, this latest innovation is truly revolutionary in how it will increase patients’ speech understanding — and ultimately their satisfaction with hearing instruments as a solution to their loss.”

The world of bionic hearing truly has arrived. And in today’s world of excessive noise exposure and its associated increase in permanent hearing damage, these technological advancements have arrived just in time to make a difference in the lives of millions of Americans with hearing loss.

For extended information on societal noise exposure, cogent use of ear protection, or the advantages of 3D Digital Technology, please contact GN ReSound at 800-248-4327.

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Student, mentor pairing wants to advocate for deafChillicothe Gazette, OH – Apr 3, 2007CHILLICOTHE (AP) – A student-mentor program at Ohio University-Chillicothe didn’t just help freshman Cyle Long with his studies when it paired the deaf .

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