Professional Hearing Center

From our friends at HADH...

We offer cochlear implant sound processors with direct connectivity and so much more. Check out the different features here: https://bit.ly/2ZkgN64

Research has found a connection between high or low blood pressure or heart disease and hearing loss, tinnitus and/or dizziness. If you are experiencing hearing loss, tinnitus or imbalance, please see an audiologist today! We want to help you hear more and fall less. #thinkaudiology

Good Morning. This morning the City had a pump at one of our wells go down. To sustain service, the City activated another pump. While there was no loss in p...ressure or service, the City is issuing a boil order for the effected area. All residents East of Highway 47 are advised to boil the water before consumption. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available. UPDATE: (As of 9:00 AM Wednesday) 2 of the 3 wells that serve the area went down at the same time. In order to maintain service levels, a backup pump was started. We are waiting on parts to arrive to complete the repair. We expect to receive them in the next day and will work on the repair immediately. Once it is back up, we will submit for testing to confirm everything is safe and back up and running. While the order is advisory, it may take several days to get service restored and the samples tested.

Our audiology tree is up!

People with cochlear implants commonly have difficulty understanding what someone is saying (or who is saying it) when other people are talking around them, lik...e at a party or in a busy office. Our colleagues, Adam Bosen, Monita Chatterjee, and Aditya Kulkarni, received a grant for a new project designed to examine how a person’s auditory quality and memory impact how well they can separate out speech they're trying to listen to from other talkers in the background. With this knowledge, researchers will be one step closer to figuring out how to make speech recognition easier for people with cochlear implants. See more

Join us for our next webinar on January 5, 2021 with Nancy Tye-Murray, Ph.D., of Washington University in St. Louis. This presentation will describe how digital... therapeutics may be used to treat hearing loss and its downstream effects. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us//1516051/WN_vf-_zhcATMiwNGKYmK6OOw

What sounds arouse your appetite? Is there a particular sizzle, crunch or pour that makes you salivate? Share your favorite food sounds for #FoodDay! #FavoriteSounds

Are you interested in learning about cochlear implants?

Our amazing friend Tina did an interview about living with hearing loss and accommodations.

Happy Friday! #FridayFunny #getyourhearingchecked

For the safety of our staff and our patients, we require masks of everyone over the age of 5, although we had a 3 year who wore one like a champ! We are following medical advice and research to keep everyone as safe as we can. We also disinfect all surfaces after every appointment and closed our waiting room in March. We appreciate all of our patients and veterans who have been cooperative and understanding.

Fun fact Friday!

Some help for masks! They are required to enter our office in order to protect our patients.

Can you hear that? Hair cells from the organ of Corti in the cochlear of the human inner ear. Each V-shaped arrangement of outer hairs (stereocilia, pink) lies... on the top of a single cell. The hairs are surrounded by endolymph fluid. As sound enters the ear, it causes waves to form in the endolymph, which in turn causes these hairs to move. Outer hair cells amplify the vibrations, which are then picked up by inner hair cells (row of hair cells in the background) that transmit the signal to auditory nerve fibres. This amplification enhances the sensitivity and dynamic range of hearing. Across bottom are bottle-shaped Deiters', or phalangeal, cells, a type of support cell. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Magnification: x1,500 when printed at 15cm wide. Credit: Eye Of Science / Science Photo Library https://bit.ly/31a6y6C #auditory #aural #cochlear #hearing #sense

From the British Academy of Audiology: a shot of the middle ear by way of the Eustachian tube

Local research on speech perception and face coverings. https://uow7g3zrgsb416g6q3djmoyz-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com//