Simple Activities You Can Do to Improve Your Hearing Health

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Simple Activities You Can Do to Improve Your
Hearing Health
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Though hearing loss is a natural part of ageing
for many people, you dont have to accept it as
it comes to you and give up on activities you
once enjoyed with your normal hearing. Thank
God for hearing aids. The advanced hearing device
amplifies sounds to make hearing and
communication easier for those with impaired
hearing. It is important to realise, however,
that hearing aids cant restore your natural
hearing. But there are certain ways to improve
your hearing aids experience and minimise
worsening of your condition.
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Rapidly growing as a form of physical exercise,
yoga has been considered an effective therapy
when it comes to treating mental and physical
health issues. Those who already practise yoga,
must be well aware of its health benefits. But,
many of you might not know that yoga can do good
to your hearing, too. Yoga poses like cobra
pose, lotus pose, triangle pose and tree pose
help increase blood circulation through the ear
and the brain while removing toxins, thus
improving your nerve functions. Yoga also helps
improve your overall immunity while protecting
your ears against infections and allergies.
Yoga Poses
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Your brain is responsible for processing the
sounds you receive through your ears. Also,
studies have linked hearing loss with mental
conditions like anxiety and depression. So,
it is important to keep your brain fit in order
to maintain your hearing health. A regular brain
workout can help maintain healthy brain tissues
and cognitive function necessary to process
sensory information. There are a variety of
games and challenges such as Sudoku, crossword
puzzle, Rubiks cube, word searches and more that
are designed to train your mind and help you
memorise and concentrate better.
Fun brain games
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Hearing aids are the most widely used and
effective treatment for hearing loss. However,
when you start using hearing aids for the first
time, your brain needs to retain its ability to
hear sounds since it hasnt processed sounds for
a long while. Fortunately, theres a wide range
of mobile apps and online games that are
developed to help hearing aid users to practise
listening and communicating in noisy settings on
their computer systems, iPads, iPhones and
android devices. There are also apps that are
specifically designed for children with hearing
loss to develop their listening and language
skills through fun exercises.
Digital apps
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• While mobile apps and online games are sure a fun
  way to train your hearing, you dont necessarily
  need the internet and digital devices to exercise
  your ears.
• All you need is a cooperative partner and you can
  try out these exercises at the comfort of your
  home
• Simulate a noisy environment by turning on the
  radio or TV and practise having a conversation
  with your partner while focusing on his/her
  speech and tuning out other sounds in the
  background.
• Keep your eyes closed and have your partner move
  to a different area of the room or a different
  room itself. Ask them to utter some words and try
  to repeat your partners words and locate where
  they are speaking from.

At-home exercises
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• Dont have a buddy to perform these exercises?
  Dont worry. Here are a few activities you can
  practise on your own.
• Practise sound isolation to train your brain to
  recognise sounds better. Find an area to sit and
  close your eyes. Try to recognise as many sounds
  in your background as you can. Now focus all your
  attention on a single sound and isolate it.
• Meditate to improve your overall hearing health.
  It relaxes your mind while reducing stress and
  increasing concentration power, which further
  helps sound recognition that occurs in the brain.
  

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There are different meditation techniques.
However, the easiest way is to sit in a busy
environment like a public park, close your eyes
and take deep breaths while focusing on each
sound in the background and trying to locate
where it is coming from. So, thats it. Go
ahead and try these practices to boost your
hearing health as well as quality of life. You
can also visit one of the reputed Adelaide
hearing clinics to get your hearing tested and
find a suitable treatment for your condition.
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