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Ways You Can Protect Your Hearing: lower the volume, move away from noise, wear protection and know the limit.

WALK away from loud, noisy environments; BLOCK noise with ear plugs and ear muffs when partaking in loud activity and; TURN down the volume.

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Wear ear plus or protective ear muffs when you are at a loud event; keep the volume below 60% of the maximum limit on your personal audio devices and; get a hearing test done.

no sound: replace battery, clean mic; weak volume: change wax guard, check battery; whistling/feedback: reinsert, check the tubing; intermittent sound: dry hearing aids and; distorted audio: clean, come see if this keeps happening.

If conversations are becoming more difficult to follow make it a priority this month to schedule a hearing test with us. The earlier hearing loss is detected, the faster it can be treated.