July 20, 2017 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
Hearing tests are performed by a specialist to provide an evaluation of your hearing, but what exactly can you expect to learn from the hearing test? […]
January 26, 2017 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
If you’re like most, you’ve probably been postponing your hearing test. You may even have had others advise that you get one but you keep finding excuses not to go. If so, we’re going to try to convince you to begin the new year by finally getting that hearing test. As you’ll notice, having your […]
August 25, 2016 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
The hearing exam truly is the easy part. The difficult part is acknowledging your hearing loss and actually setting up the hearing test in the first place. You have more than likely read the stats by now: 48 million people in the US suffer from hearing loss but only a minor fraction actually do anything […]
October 15, 2015 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
In the US, about 37.5 million adults have some amount of hearing loss. Yet according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), merely 20 percent of those who could benefit from hearing aids actually use them. That suggests that millions of Americans who could enhance their life with better hearing choose not to do so. […]
June 25, 2015 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
More often than not, people are unaware that they have hearing loss. It develops so slowly and gradually that it’s frequently undetectable, and on top of that, the majority of family physicians do not routinely test for hearing loss at the annual physical examination. Bearing in mind these two facts, it’s no surprise that most […]
April 19, 2015 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
You’ve just completed your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now coming into the room and provides you with a chart, like the one above, except that it has all of these symbols, colors, and lines. This is intended to show you the exact, mathematically precise features of your hearing loss, but to you it […]
April 12, 2015 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
We don’t need to tell you the signs and symptoms of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a very different kind of challenge: persuading someone you care about to get their hearing assessed and treated. But exactly how are you expected to get through to someone who denies there is […]
November 25, 2012 | Audiology Services of Chattanooga | Hearing Test Info
To measure the extent of your hearing loss you may be asked to take a comprehensive hearing test. An audiogram is the result of that test in the form of a graph. The test is painless, and can be completed in only a few minutes. On the audiogram graph, the Y or vertical axis represents […]
