Our expert audiologists offer comprehensive solutions, including hearing tests, hearing aids, cochlear implants, tinnitus management, & speech therapy. The Hearing Clinic has specialized in the evaluation and treatment of hearing loss for over 28 years. We perform diagnostic testing to find the cause of the hearing loss. We explain the results to our patients in clear, easy to understand language.
Based on the results from our thorough testing, we make recommendations that provide persons with hearing loss the help they need. We also work very closely with area physicians when our special diagnostic skills are requested in the evaluation of hearing. Rana A. Masood and his team are experts in finding solutions for hearing loss through fitting and adjustment of hearing aids and other assistive devices. HEARING AIDS
The ears serve a lot more functions than you might realise at first. They are fundamental in assimilating speech, music and sounds, and they are used for orientation and localisation. You only have to close your eyes and concentrate fully on your ears and you'll soon notice that directional hearing is an invaluable orienting guide. All in all, unimpaired hearing enriches your life all the time everywhere you go, allowing you a greater range of experiences and above all making you safer. The principle behind the hearing process is as follows:
The co**ha captures external sounds in the form of sound waves. From there, they are funnelled through the auditory canal to the eardrum. Sound is transmitted via the eardrum to the ossicles in the middle ear (called hammer, anvil and stirrup because of their shapes) and from there to the inner ear. In the inner ear, also called the cochlea from the Greek for snail or screw because of its spiral shape, hair cells convert the sound vibrations into electrical impulses. Auditory nerves carry the impulses to the brain which then identifies the sounds as music, a dog’s bark, rushing water, bells chiming, speech, etc.
