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At Physicians Hearing Clinic, we’re dedicated to helping you reconnect with the sounds that matter most. Our expert audiologists use the latest technology to provide personalized hearing healthcare.
Whether you’re dealing with hearing loss, tinnitus, or just want a baseline evaluation, we offer compassionate care tailored to your unique needs. From thorough assessments to advanced hearing aid fittings and ongoing support, we’re here to guide you on your journey to better hearing and an improved quality of life.
Hearing Aids
Hearing aids are sophisticated, life-changing devices designed to amplify and clarify sounds for individuals with hearing loss, helping restore connections to conversations, music, and the world around you. Our audiologists work with the latest in digital hearing aid technology, offering a wide range of styles to match your specific hearing loss pattern, lifestyle needs, and aesthetic preferences. We provide comprehensive services including detailed hearing evaluations, Real Ear Measurement, personalized fittings, programming adjustments, ongoing maintenance, and counseling to ensure you achieve the best possible hearing outcomes. Our goal is to help you find hearing aids that seamlessly integrate into your daily life and reconnect you with the sounds and voices that matter most to you.
Hearing Tests
Hearing testing and evaluations are the foundation of effective hearing healthcare, providing a comprehensive assessment of your auditory system to identify the type, degree, and potential causes of any hearing difficulties you may be experiencing. Our thorough diagnostic process includes a variety of specialized tests such as pure tone audiometry, speech testing, tympanometry, and more, all conducted in a comfortable, soundproof environment using state-of-the-art equipment. This helps us determine how well you hear sounds and how clearly you can understand speech both in quiet and with background noise. These painless evaluations help us create a detailed picture of your hearing health, distinguish between different types of hearing loss, and identify any underlying medical conditions. Our comprehensive evaluations provide the essential information needed to develop an effective treatment plan tailored specifically to your hearing needs and lifestyle goals.
Tinnitus
Our comprehensive approach begins with a thorough evaluation to identify potential underlying causes and assess how tinnitus impacts your daily life, sleep, and overall well-being. We offer evidence-based treatment options including hearing aids with tinnitus masking features, counseling techniques, and lifestyle modifications designed to reduce the prominence and distress of tinnitus symptoms. While there may not be a universal cure for tinnitus, our experienced audiologists work collaboratively with each patient to develop personalized management strategies that can significantly improve quality of life, restore peaceful sleep, and help you regain control over this often frustrating condition.
Pediatric Auditory Processing Disorder
Auditory processing disorder (APD) occurs when the brain has difficulty interpreting and making sense of sounds, even though hearing sensitivity may be normal, affecting how individuals process speech and other auditory information in their daily lives. Our specialized evaluation for APD includes comprehensive testing that goes beyond standard hearing tests to assess how well your child’s auditory system processes complex sounds, speech in noise, and rapid auditory sequences. We work with children who may struggle with following directions, understanding speech in noisy environments, distinguishing between similar sounds, or processing information when multiple people are speaking. Treatment approaches are individualized and may include auditory training programs, environmental modifications, assistive listening devices, communication strategies, and coordination with educational teams to ensure success in academic settings. Our goal is to help children with APD develop the skills and strategies needed to improve their auditory processing abilities and enhance their communication effectiveness in all aspects of life.
Other Audiology Services
Assistive Listening Devices
Our assistive listening devices offer innovative solutions beyond hearing aids to enhance communication in challenging environments, including FM systems, loop systems, amplified phones, TV listening devices, and alerting systems designed to improve speech understanding and connectivity in your daily activities.
Cerumen (Wax) Removal
Our safe, professional cerumen removal services use specialized tools and techniques to gently clear excessive earwax buildup that may be causing hearing loss, discomfort, or interfering with hearing aid performance, restoring your natural hearing clarity and ear health.
Hearing Aid Repairs
Our comprehensive hearing aid repair services provide fast, reliable maintenance and troubleshooting for all major hearing aid brands, ensuring your devices continue to deliver optimal performance through expert cleaning, programming adjustments, component replacements, and warranty support to keep you connected to clear, consistent sound.
Custom Earmolds
Our custom ear molds are precisely crafted from impressions of your unique ear anatomy to provide comfortable, secure fit and optimal sound delivery for hearing aids, musician’s monitors, noise protection, and swim plugs tailored specifically to your individual needs and lifestyle.
FAQ
What is an audiologist?
An audiologist is a healthcare professional who specializes in the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of hearing and balance disorders. Additionally, they use a variety of tests and techniques to assess and manage hearing and balance problems in individuals of all ages, from newborns to the elderly. Audiologists work in a range of settings, including hospitals, clinics, private practices, schools, and research institutions. Lastly, they often collaborate with other healthcare professionals, such as otolaryngologists (ear, nose, and throat doctors), speech-language pathologists, and psychologists, to provide comprehensive care to patients with hearing and balance disorders.
What percentage of American adults report hearing loss?
Approximately 17 percent of American adults report some degree of hearing loss
Who is the typical person suffering from tinnitus?
Of adults ages 65 and older in the United States, 12.3 percent of men and nearly 14 percent of women are affected by tinnitus. Tinnitus is identified more frequently in white individuals and the prevalence of tinnitus is almost twice as frequent in the South as in the Northeast.
Is there a connection between hearing loss and age?
There is a strong relationship between age and reported hearing loss: 18 percent of American adults 45-64 years old, 30 percent of adults 65-74 years old, and 47 percent of adults 75 years old or older have a hearing loss.
How does exposure to loud noises impact your hearing?
Approximately 15 percent (26 million) of Americans between the ages of 20 and 69 have high frequency hearing loss due to exposure to loud sounds or noise at work or in leisure activities.
Who is more likely to experience hearing loss, men or women?
Men are more likely to experience hearing loss than women.
Of the people who need hearing aids, how many actually wear hearing aids?
Only 1 out of 5 people who could benefit from a hearing aid actually wears one. This ensures that 4 out of 5 people are suffering needlessly.