Comprehensive Hearing Assessments
Comprehensive Hearing Healthcare Begins with a Comprehensive Hearing Assessment
Better hearing health is impossible unless you know what challenges lie ahead. The first essential step on the path to better hearing begins with a comprehensive hearing assessment. The comprehensive hearing assessment provided by The Hearing Center of MCC starts off with a personal, professional consultation.
Trusting us begins with honesty and transparency. We want you to know exactly what to expect from us, so your consultation will include a thorough rundown of our processes.
Our compassionate, professional audiologist will ask some questions and listen to your hearing loss concerns while reviewing your medical history and family history, medications you might be taking, your lifestyle, and the goals you have for better hearing. Your consultation provides us with a common starting point, establishing honest communication and confidence as we begin the journey to healthier hearing.
After your consultation, we will conduct a hearing assessment. Our objective with these tests is to establish a baseline against which we can assess your progress, form a treatment plan, and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment, regardless of the intervention options we pursue. Your hearing assessment could include
- Physical observation (looking for inflammation, growths, wax buildup, etc.)
- Pure-tone diagnostic assessment (transmitting different tones and frequencies through headphones)
- Speech testing (identifying your speech reception threshold and word understanding ability in quiet and noise)
- Tympanometry testing (a puff of air to assess fluid on the ear, perforated eardrum, etc.)
- Acoustic reflex tests (evaluates how the middle ear reacts to sounds)
Initial evaluations from your hearing assessment provide us with the information necessary for diagnosing your hearing capacity and prescribing treatment.
As part of our commitment to educating our patients, your audiologist will walk you through the test data and explain the meaning of each item. Any required decision-making processes will require your input, allowing you to have a voice in the treatment options and hearing device choices that best suit your unique circumstances, lifestyle, and budget.
The primary commitment of The Hearing Center team, regardless of the option or device selected, is to provide continuous follow-up care, building your confidence and delivering the highest standard of hearing healthcare you can expect to find in the Pensacola community.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Comprehensive Hearing Assessments
1. How long does a hearing test take?
2. Why do I need a hearing test?
Our ears do a lot more for us than just hear! With strong, healthy hearing, we can maintain better balance, sharpen our memory, stay connected in conversations with loved ones, get productive at work, and more.
Your hearing health check-up should be as regular as going to the dentist each year; with an annual hearing test, you can keep tabs on your ears and address issues with your hearing before they start to affect your day-to-day life and wellbeing.
3. Can I bring someone with me to my hearing test?
Absolutely! We encourage you to bring a loved one with you to your hearing assessment to help you with decision-making and telling us about your initial hearing concerns.
Hearing challenges don’t just affect the individual— they affect their family, friends, and other people close to them. Your loved one could fill in the gaps where you didn’t realize your hearing was affecting their lives, too.
4. How often should I get my hearing tested?
5. What can I expect during a comprehensive hearing assessment?
Your hearing test begins with a conversation about you— your lifestyle choices, hobbies, medical history, family history of hearing loss, and how your hearing challenges have been affecting you. With this initial chat, your audiologist will begin to formulate a foundation for your treatment plan according to your personal preferences.
After a quick examination of your ears’ physical health (checking for earwax impaction or infection, just in case those are the culprits for your hearing loss), we’ll move into the testing portion of your assessment.
The testing portion takes the longest, but provides a detailed understanding of your current hearing capabilities. From testing how well you hear speech in busy environments to the health of your eardrums, we’ll make sure to take every precaution to get the full picture of your hearing health.
You’ll receive your results on the same day, and your audiologist will walk you through the next steps to help optimize your hearing, whether that be through hearing aids or annual hearing testing.
6. Can I get my hearing tested if I already wear hearing aids?
You sure can! Your hearing will be tested with and without your hearing aids to ensure your devices are performing to your specific needs. If your hearing devices need fine-tuning, we can make adjustments to ensure optimal performance for your needs.
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Comprehensive hearing care cannot happen without a comprehensive hearing assessment. If you strain to hear phone conversations, notice that you are turning up the volume more often, or cannot make out what others say when there is background noise, you could be experiencing a hearing loss.
There is no better time than today to start down the path to better hearing by filling out our form and scheduling a hearing assessment.