The answer: Yes, if you have hearing loss in both ears, you almost certainly hear better with two hearing aids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lingering question probably stems from the old way of doing things: Prior to about the 1908s or so, it was common for people to wear just one hearing aid even if they had hearing loss in both ears, because there was no connectivity between the aids. This new digital connectivity gives us the opportunity for better noise reduction, speech focus, and better localization for sound than we ever had with analog devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sound localization works a lot like binocular vision. Close one eye and try walking on the edge of a sidewalk. Don\u2019t really. That would be dangerous. Two ears, like two eyes give us a much fuller world. Our sounds have much more depth and beauty. Hearing with one ear is\u2026well\u2026flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wearing two hearing aids means each ear picks up sound and gets the stimulus the bran needs to stay at peak performance. You know, hearing doesn\u2019t actually happen in the ear. That\u2019s right! The ear just funnels the sound to the brain where all the processing happens. Where meaning is attached to the sounds. Two hearing aids keep both sides of the brain active and allow for both sides of the brain to get involved with following the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wearing two hearing aids delivers better masking of tinnitus (ringing or buzzing in the ears) because both ears are getting input from the outside world thus taking the focus away from what\u2019s going on inside your head. This works even if the tinnitus is only on one side. Again, the brain is what is interpreting what the sounds mean. The tinnitus doesn\u2019t mean anything to the brain. It\u2019s just there. However, a pair<\/em> of hearing aids can overrule tinnitus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wearing two hearing aids provides \u2018binaural summation\u2019 which means you don\u2019t have to turn the volume up so high. The brain has an increased perception of the volume and that means you\u2019ll be able to get more \u2018bang for your buck\u2019 in terms of loudness. Neither of the devices would need to have the power output as high as a single device trying to do the work of two. This can help you conserve hearing aid battery life, let you wear smaller hearing aids since not as much power is needed, and help you relax a little while not working so hard to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The answer: Yes, if you have hearing loss in both ears, you almost certainly hear better with two hearing aids. The lingering question probably stems from the old way of doing things: Prior to about the 1908s or so, it was common for people to wear just one hearing aid even if they had hearing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearbetterevansville.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}