Hearing Health Clinic is an audiology and hearing aid clinic with expert audiologists that provides comprehensive hearing care services, hearing tests, and advanced hearing solutions in Osseo, MN. Traditional hearing health providers test and treat just the ear, which is where sound is detected. But a healthy auditory system, ear-to-brain is needed for hearing in the real world, where sound is complex and there is often background noise. We are unique in that we test and treat the entire auditory system from the ear to the brain. The interaction between the ear and the brain is instrumental in how you hear, This approach allows us to understand how you hear in the real world, so we can find the right solutions for your success. Approaching hearing care ear-to-brain is important because there is a significant relationship between hearing and cognition. Increasing evidence has linked age-related hearing loss to more rapid progression of cognitive decline and incidental dementia. It is important that we are screening cognition at age 50 when hearing loss is present. Change in cognition from aging or head injury may reduce the cognitive resources available for understanding speech, especially in background noise, increasing the effects of hearing loss. Hearing aid selection and settings should be set according to cognitive processing as well as hearing needs. Feeling confident that you are receiving optimal outcomes is important, especially given the strong relationship between hearing and cognition. We also retest after treatment to monitor your progress for speech understanding, reduction in listening effort, improvement in quality of hearing, and cognitive processing. We use real-ear speech testing every 6 months to maximize the audibility of your hearing aids and keep you hearing at your best. We use in-depth methods of objective and subjective testing to cut to the core of your hearing loss and find out what YOU need. You are more than an audiogram; more than a customer. We want you to be the most successful you can be because we care.
