Love the pool, surf, or scuba? Keep the fun and skip the ear problems. A practical, evidence-based plan to prevent swimmer’s ear, surfer’s ear (exostosis), and pressure-related barotrauma—plus smart gear picks and when to see a pro.
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Learn to read your audiogram like a map: what sloping, notches, cookie‑bites, and flat losses usually mean, how speech scores and “speech banana” fit in, and the smart next steps to protect and improve your hearing.
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If voices sound muffled like they’re trapped behind a door, otosclerosis may be the reason. Here’s how this bone‑based, fixable cause of hearing loss works—plus real‑world solutions from hearing aids to modern stapes surgery.
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Notice one ear pulling more weight than the other? Here’s how to recognize asymmetric hearing loss, why it happens, what’s urgent, and the tools—from targeted hearing aids to CROS and cochlear implants—that can bring your world back into balance.
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Woke up with one ear down? Don’t wait. Here’s a practical, empathetic, evidence‑based playbook for sudden hearing loss—what to do today, how to tell wax from nerve loss, what to expect at the clinic, and how to protect your hearing going forward.
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A friendly, expert walk-through of otosclerosis—the “stuck” stirrup bone that causes conductive hearing loss. Learn symptoms, testing, and real-world options: hearing aids, stapes surgery, and how to decide what fits your life.
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Lede: Love the ocean, rivers, or winter swims? Your ears may be quietly building bone to protect themselves—until one day sound gets quieter, water won’t…
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If you’ve been told you have otosclerosis, you’re not alone—and you do have options. The good news is that most people do very well with treatment, whether…
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When one ear sounds like it’s under water, pops but won’t clear, or amplifies your own voice, it’s not “just in your head.” In many adults, the culprit is…
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