Hearing aids are an important part of treatment for hearing loss. Especially for those in the early stages of age-related hearing loss (presbycusis), it’s important to get your hearing tested and start a treatment plan with our team at Hearing Wellness Solutions as soon as you start to experience changes in your hearing.
Why You Should Start Wearing Hearing Aids Sooner Than Later
It is increasingly understood that hearing loss is not merely a benign annoyance but can engender a cascade of negative outcomes for health and well-being. Untreated hearing loss increases the risk for accidental injury and hospitalization, depression, social isolation, and even earlier onset of cognitive decline and dementia. Even those with mild hearing loss subjectively report having more memory issues than those who wear hearing aids.
By starting your journey toward better hearing as soon as you start to experience hearing loss, you can avoid the complications that come with untreated hearing loss. People who wait to get hearing aids (an upsettingly large majority) often struggle with fatigue, early stages of brain atrophy, and the aforementioned memory issues, even if they are otherwise healthy.
Brain atrophy happens when the auditory cortex stops receiving as much information from the ears as it used to. It’s not that brain cells die, but the grey matter that sits between the brain cells and supports the structure starts to dissipate. The structure sort of collapses. Once this happens, even when you do get hearing aids, you’ll have difficulty comprehending what is being said to you even though you can hear it clearly. At that stage, it will take some time to learn to listen again!
Why You Should Choose Hearing Wellness Solutions
As with all services related to your health, When you get hearing aids, you want the person who is providing them to know a thing or two about the human ear, and the technology behind what they’re providing. This education and experience ensures that your board-certified hearing instrument specialist will be able to provide the most accurate hearing test, fit and program your hearing aids accurately, and identify any issues with your ears that might require medical attention.
Personal Attention
Hearing loss takes many forms and reaches many types of people. There is no “one-size-fits-all” hearing instrument. A board-certified hearing instrument specialist will give you the attention required to truly understand what it is you need your hearing aids to do for you, and then recommend the best options. Recommendations are not based solely on your amount of hearing loss, but also on your lifestyle. It’s impossible to know which hearing aids to recommend without knowing anything about you, which is why board-certified hearing instrument specialists take the time to understand your needs.
Follow-Up Service
Board-certified hearing instrument specialists don’t just sell you a set of hearing aids and send you on your way. At Hearing Wellness Solutions, we want to make sure that you don’t just have a set of hearing aids, but that they’re working their best for you every day. We want to see you as often as you have questions or issues.
Board-certified hearing instrument specialists can typically make common hearing aid repairs in-house. You shouldn’t have to mail your hearing aids away every time something goes wrong. While sometimes it might be necessary to return a set of hearing aids to the manufacturer, we’ll do everything we can to make sure you’re never without your hearing aids for long.