Hearing Health Care IS Health Care

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It all starts with the brain. We hear with our brains. Both your ears work together to pick up sounds occurring around you. Your brain makes sense of the sounds by matching them to sounds stored in your memory.

From detecting the simplest sounds to performing the most complex listening activities, your brain is responsible for making sense of everything you hear. If you have hearing loss, it disrupts the normal relationship between your ears and your brain.

You can experience better hearing with less effort, by choosing a hearing solution that supports the whole system – your two ears, and your brain!

In this article, you’re going to learn:

• How your brain makes sense of sound
• How technology can help your brain hear naturally

Poor hearing health leads to your brain receiving less sound information. This makes it harder for your brain to recognize sounds. Which in turn, forces you to guess what people are saying and to concentrate harder.

The extra effort leaves less mental capacity for actually remembering conversations. Do you ever feel more tired after conversations? Leading you to be more tempted
to withdraw from
social interaction because it’s just too hard.

That’s why hearing health care IS health care!, Check out this great blog “6 Consequences of Untreated Hearing Loss” to learn more about untreated hearing loss

How Your Brain Makes Sense of Sound

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Your brain makes sense of sound. What does that mean? It starts with the fundamental observation that speech understanding is a cognitive process – it happens in the brain.

BrainHearing™ all starts with the brain! Thinking brain first changes the conversation. Once you understand that hearing happens in the brain, hearing instrument choice becomes a health care-driven decision instead of a lifestyle or technology choice.

Clear Speech

Of all the sounds you hear, speech is probably the most important. Its characteristic patterns and rhythms distinguish it from all other types of sound. Speech rises and falls in volume and pitch; it conveys meanings and emotions.

Think about your tone when you’re around infants. They can tell the difference between speech and other sounds. Even pets can understand your tone.

Small differences in sound patterns can make huge differences in meaning. For you to properly understand what is being said, you must know the tone and hear each sound pattern clearly.

People have an amazing ability to sort through rapidly changing information and automatically make sense of what is happening.

Hearing functions as a system, which includes your two ears and one brain. Your ears take in the constant stream of sound information. They then relay that information to your brain, which identifies and recognizes meaningful patterns.

The information your brain receives must be as accurate and as detailed as possible. If it’s noisy, when there are many people talking at once, when you’re learning new things, or when you’re tired, you must pay closer attention to hear and understand. Challenging situations and hearing difficulties interfere with this process.

Listening Effort

Did you know that people with hearing loss tend to zone out of conversations? You not only miss out on important details, but you also give others the impression that you’re not interested in what others are saying. This can create problems and even hurt feelings.

Sometimes listening is automatic and effortless. At other times, you need to concentrate and focus. Demanding situations and hearing loss increase the amount of effort it takes to understand and process. An entire day of effortful listening can be exhausting, sapping energy from life’s activities. The brain performs best when the least effort is required.

Are you starting to see how hearing health care IS health care?

How Can Technology Help Your Brain Hear more Naturally?

You don’t have to be an audio expert to know that listening to music through a cheap radio cannot compare to listening at a live concert. It’s the difference between a flat, lifeless, even distorted sound compared to the full, dimensional listening experience with all the rich sound details available to enjoy.

Here are just a few benefits of how hearing aid technology can help:

• Preserves the important details in speech
• Reduces the effort involved in listening
• Improves your recall of conversation
• Helps your ears work together to identify where sound is coming from
• Takes your personal listening preferences into account

Modern science is gaining more insight about hearing and brain processing. Today’s hearing solutions deliver more benefits than ever before to the ears and to the brain. People who wear these modern devices enjoy a pleasant and natural sound quality.

That’s not even the best part.

The best part is that these hearing solutions are personalized to your specific needs.  You will learn about your personalized options to better hearing!

How to Protect Your Hearing

The intensity and duration of sound is what damages our hearing. The longer you’re exposed to a loud noise and the closer you are to it, the higher the risk of damage.

Noise-induced hearing loss is the only kind of hearing loss we have the power to prevent. 

To your healthy hearing,

Texan Hearing Center (Or from Denise)