Fall is upon us, meaning it’s time for crisp hikes colored with orange and red leaves. While it’s hard to improve on a beautiful hike in Horseshoe Trails Park, one thing that might do the trick for the 15% of U.S. adults with hearing loss is wearing hearing aids.
Let’s examine a few ways hearing aids can improve your fall hikes to help you take the leap into treatment.
Benefits of Hiking With Hearing Aids
Hearing aids bring fall sounds back to life. A few things you may have missed in past years include:
- Nature sounds. Fall isn’t just beautiful to look at. It’s wonderful to hear. There’s nothing quite like jumping from leaf to leaf trying to find the perfect crunch sound, or turning your ear to singing birds flying south for the winter. Hearing aids find and turn up the volume on the soundtrack that makes autumn so special.
- Conversation. Hiking can be a social experience as well as a private one. Many people enjoy hiking with a group, and some even join hiking clubs where they meet with other people to hike together. Hearing aids amplify speech to help you enjoy every story, joke and laugh with your hiking friends.
- Safety sounds. Words and phrases like “on your left” or “DUCK” are crucial to ensuring trail safety and etiquette. Hearing aids increase your background awareness and allow you to hear the essential safety sounds that prevent injury. Hearing these safety sounds is even more crucial for people who hike alone.
Starting treatment with hearing aids is an excellent step to help you enjoy and stay safe on the trails this fall.
Starting Hearing Loss Treatment
If you don’t already have hearing aids, call us at Heard It Through The Grapevine Audiology, PC to schedule a hearing test. We’ll identify the specific frequencies you struggle with and find the perfect hearing aids to suit your needs.
If you have hearing aids that aren’t working as well as they used to, call us to schedule a repair and service. You may only need to make a few small tweaks to your devices. In some cases, we’ll recommend getting new hearing aids to accommodate your progressing hearing loss.