You’ll Be Surprised by the Result of Your Hearing Test
Do you know what you are missing?
The truth is with hearing loss you don’t know. Once your brain stops registering specific sounds, you don’t even know they are there.
If it’s spring, ever wonder why you don’t hear the robin outside your window? They haven’t gone away. It’s just you can’t hear them anymore, along with a host of other sounds. It’s worth getting your hearing checked to find out what you are missing. Then you can decide if you really want to be tuned in or tuned out.
Why get a hearing test?
The World Health Organization projects that by the year 2050, one in every ten people will have debilitating hearing loss that requires intervention. This is even worse as you get older: One in every 3 people over the age of 65 have hearing loss.
Yet many people are unaware that they have hearing loss. That’s because hearing loss often progresses quite slowly, making any deterioration easy to miss until the damage is irreversible. Hearing tests help track your hearing over time and catch hearing loss early.
After all, hearing loss is a serious issue. If left untreated, it can lead to serious health issues, including cognitive decline. Why risk that when hearing tests are simple and painless?
Hearing tests:
- Catch hearing loss early
- Determine which hearing loss solutions are best for you
- Help you customize and program your hearing aids
How to Know if You Have Hearing Loss
For most people, hearing loss doesn’t happen overnight. Instead, it’s gradual, slowly getting worse over the years. This gradualness can be deceiving, and can cause many people to be unsure that what they’re experiencing is really hearing loss.
Hearing tests are the definitive way to measure hearing loss
The best way to determine for sure if you have hearing loss is to test and measure it.
- You can start by taking our free online hearing test. This short, simple screening tool is easy to use, and you can do it from home on your computer or smart tablet.
- You can also try our hearing loss simulator. This interactive tool demonstrates what hearing loss sounds like — from mild hearing loss to severe, and in a variety of situations and environments.
The most accurate hearing tests are done in office
To get an accurate hearing measurement, a visit to our office is recommended. At our office, we have the proper equipment, calibrated testing tools, and a sound-proof facility needed to measure your hearing with precision.
Tests we recommend:
- Pressure test to check the flexibility of your eardrum (and its ability to transmit sound).
- Tone test to measure how softly you can hear tones of different pitches (which will be charted on an audiogram).
- Speech test where you are asked to repeat words and/or sentences you hear at different volumes.
We’ll display the results of your test in an audiogram, which accurately charts the type, degree and configuration of your hearing loss.