When your ears pop, it may often be due to flying, scuba diving, hiking a mountain, or just riding in an elevator. When air pressure around you changes (it drops as you go higher and increases as you ...

Have you ever had that plugged-up feeling in your ears? You know, when it happens mid-flight, during allergy season or after a nasty cold? That uncomfortable pressure can make sounds feel muffled and ...

From making sure you pack everything you need to getting through security, traveling is one of the most anxiety-inducing experiences we regularly endure—and that's before you get on the plane. Once ...

Whether it was driving up a winding mountain road, riding in a skyscraper’s high-speed elevator, or a traveling on a plane, you’ve probably experienced a feeling of pressure in your ears that you want ...

Ear pain during and after flying — otherwise known as “airplane ear” — is generally considered to be a trivial part of travel. It’s a small price to pay while soaring through the air to your ...

It’s one of those everyday annoyances of air travel: As the plane ascends or descends, the cabin pressure changes and leaves you wondering how to pop your ears during a flight. This phenomenon is ...

Rapid ascent and descents on airplanes cause our ears to "pop." But, why do our ears do that in the first place? And why does the lack of that relieving "pop" cause the most annoying pain in our ...

The name of that stock photo above is "Ear Pain," but it might as well be called "Me, Every Time I Fly." My ears are ridiculously sensitive to the pressure changes that occur during flight, which ...