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- Hearing Aid Sales & Service
The Hearing Care Center offers a wide variety of hearing instruments featuring the latest technology. Our staff emphasizes ongoing cleaning and maintenance after your hearing aid purchase to insure your receive optimum performance and benefit from your hearing aids. Repairs are provided on all makes and models with loaner hearing aids available when necessary.
HEARING-AID SERVICES:
Hearing-aid evaluations at no charge
No co-payment for office visits
Advanced technologies available
30-Day evaluation/satisfaction period
Hearing-aid adaptation counseling
2-Year comprehensive warranty including loss and damage
Batteries for the life of your hearing instrument
Cleaning and adjustments of hearing instruments
- Audiological Evaluations
Complete hearing testing for ages four to adult provided by a certified clinical audiologist. Evaluations include measures of hearing sensitivity for air and bone conducted sounds, measures of speech discrimination ability and, when necessary, assessment of the middle ear function (impedance audiometry), and special testing to determine the location of dysfunction.
- Balance & Dizziness: Vestibular Rehabilitation
Balance and Dizziness: ENG (electronystagmography) The inner ear is responsible for both hearing and balance. Electronystagmography (that's why we call it ENG - it's shorter) is a battery of tests designed to evaluate part of the inner ear balance system, as well as more "central" components that work together to keep you on an even keel.
The physician's evaluation of the dizzy patient often requires assessment of the vestibular system. Electronystagmography testing is electrical recording of eye movements caused by positional or caloric stimulation of the inner ear balance structures. The test battery will identify the presence of dizziness or imbalance due to unequal neural messages to the vestibular system.
- Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials
ABR-Diagnostic Auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a diagnostic test which is similar to an elctroencephalogram (EEG). This procedure involves the use of clicking sounds to stimulate the auditory nerve, which produces an electical response. Electrodes placed on the patient's face and ears pick up the electical activity of the nerve, and a computer displays the results for the audiologist to interpret. Also known as BERA, BAER.
- Newborn testing
Comprehensive technological diagnostic advances permits audiologists to render findings relative to a hearing disorderr in which the inner ear or auditory nerve is not able to produce a synchronous response to incoming sound. The AN/AD( auditory neuropathy/auditory dys-synchrony) disorder can be investigated by ABR audiometry, otoacoustic emissions as one contemporary protocol procedure. If necessary it can be done under sedation. Infants who fail the ABR screening procedure in the nursery are possible candidates for the dual assessment.
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