09/12/2025
Itās been a fabulous and eye-opening journey for our team at Expert Hearing as we celebrate the 2nd birthday providing excellence, expertise and experience in hearing and brain healthcare in our community! Thank you to all of you for welcoming us with open arms to learning and understanding the links between untreated hearing loss and earlier dementia. We are continuing to educate everyone on these documented links by testing all aspects of the hearing system, keeping it personalized as well as giving you the time and attention you each deserve.
The deeper Dr. Cori Palmer and I dive into the comprehensive testing we provide, the more confident we are that our test battery includes all the pieces to the puzzle to see the real hearing deficit, what is causing the issue, and more importantly how to treat the loss. Itās not just about making things louder. Itās about putting the puzzle together to provide a hearing solution that works for you - your individual processing speeds, your ability to hear in noisy places, and your sensitivity to sound. We are looking not only at the old fashioned āhear the beeps and raise your handā to see how loud you need things to be for you to hear it, but what your brain is doing with the sound once it gets there! Is it clear? Is it garbled? Can you pull the speech out of the noise? What do we need to provide to help support the deficits?! Your brain is the quarterback of your entire body! We need to pay attention to what it is telling us so we can provide it with the support it needs to continue to live a long, healthy quality of hearing and social life! We also know that we need to provide affordable hearing solutions for all budgets and can do that as well!
Over time, even with normal hearing, we start to slow down in our ability to process what we hear. The speed at which someone is talking (like grandchildren and teenagers) and trying to navigate in a noisy situation like a restaurant becomes more difficult. Therefore, we get frustrated and work harder to stay in the conversation. What we donāt want to happen is our family or friends not wanting to stay engaged in a conversation with us because we must have them repeat what is said many times. I know that I have normal hearing for the tones on the testing but when I get into the club and itās a busy night at prime time with my adult kids and grandchildren, I find myself struggling and concentrating harder to hear. I know this can be normal for most of us, but hearing loss exacerbates the issue and makes the brain work far too hard and that is when the long term affects of untreated hearing loss creep in. This is the first clue that it is time to access or reassess our hearing status and how we hear in noise and process that speech.
Itās normal to lose hearing as we collect birthdays and even if basic testing shows the tones on the test are near normal or show a mild decrease itās the testing of how we process what we hear that matters as well as how we really hear when there is a room full of people around us! We have to keep up to stay engaged. Slowly we either isolate ourselves, donāt participate in the conversations, or fake it and just smileā¦it doesnāt have to be this way! The saying āfake it till you make itā should not apply to your hearing!
During September, Cori and I, as well as our fabulous staff, are focusing on seeing each of you to get a baseline comprehensive evaluation so you can see for yourself where you fall. We are on a mission to educate you and keep you enjoying all you do!
Please save the date for October 15th at The Savannah Golf Club!
Complimentary event with a national speaker discussing āUntreated Hearing Loss, Tinnitus and Dementia: Correlations in At-Risk Peopleā
Cocktails and Conversation with Dr. Doug Beck 7:00pm
We hope you all can join us!
Expert Hearing
