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Here you can find Free and Impartial advice about Hearing Loss, it's effects and the ways it can be treated.

Hearing Loss is an invisible disability and for many is a natural consequence of getting older. Our hearing ability worsens from our 30s or 40s and onwards and when we reach our 80s, more than half of us suffer from significant hearing loss.

Age related hearing loss is called Presbyacusis - basically age related 'wear and tear'. However, hearing loss is NOT confined to the older population. About 4% of children are born each year with significant hearing loss. In 2009 that would mean over 28,000 children were born in the UK with hearing impairment. We can also acquire hearing loss through trauma or pre/post natal infections such as Rubella or Measles.

Another common reason for hearing loss is exposure to noise. We live in a noisy world. Noise may come from our work or from voluntary exposure to noise, such as noisy engines or loud music at concerts, night clubs, discos and from stereos - with or without the use of headphones. Also the increasing use of portable MP3 players are causing hearing damages.

You should consider your hearing to be a valuable resource which requires protection. For most people who lose their hearing it is a permanent and progressive problem which will continue to worsen. We have an excellent range of earplugs and our dispensers Lorraine Tipler RHAD FSHAA and Alistair Tonks RHAD MSHAA at Lincoln Hearing can provide bespoke filtered noise protection for industry, motorsport or music.