At Innovative Hearing Care, we recognize the significance of maintaining optimal hearing health in various environments. Whether you’re seeking personal or professional hearing protection solutions, we provide a diverse selection to cater to your specific requirements. By prioritizing the use of protective measures for both ears, you can effectively mitigate the potential risks of noise-induced hearing damage. With our comprehensive range of options, you can confidently safeguard your hearing and enjoy peace of mind in any setting, ensuring long-lasting auditory wellbeing.
Noise Reduction
Noise reduction is the most natural way to prevent the harmful effects of noise exposure. Before you get hearing protection, do a short quiz on the environments that make it a necessary requirement. Do you go to concerts? Is your profession full of loud machinery? Do your gardening tools tend to be on the loud side? Identifying harmful noise will be the best discovery in your life.
A good example of natural noise reduction is changing from gas to electric gardening tools. Most electric tools of this type have a much lower decibel rating. During extended operation, you hearing will be in a much better state. For personal audio, built-in volume limiters work great on headphones and earbuds. The implementation of the limiter can be hardware or software, but they both work to accomplish the same task. Going past these set limits will come with a warning about possible hearing damage.
No matter what happens in your schedule, there will always be a way to reduce noise. Create a natural sound barrier to avoid some of the worst effects of noise induced hearing loss. Noise reduction takes little effort, but it is the biggest change you can make to healthy hearing habits.
Hearing Protection
Sometimes natural noise reduction isn’t possible. This is where hearing protection saves the day by becoming the best way to absorb sound. Hearing protection is available as earplugs or earmuffs. Earplugs go directly in the canal and earmuffs are worn over the entire ear. Size and general operation are where these two products differ. Earplugs are more flexible and are often specialized based on their use. There are earplugs for music, work, sleep, hunting and even swimming. Each earplug has a special feature that makes it unique for the task being performed.
Custom Earplugs
Custom earplugs are made to fit the exact shape of the canal. A custom fit is necessary to take advantage of advanced earplug features. This seals the device in place so that there are no gaps for sound to leak into your private space. Earplugs with a built-in attenuator rely heavily on this seal and it is the main reason generic earplugs are considered a step down. But in an emergency, generic ear muffs or earplugs are still the better choice than nothing at all.