Mapping uses the voices of a patient’s family member or friend or even of the clinician to gain real ear measurements. The mapping process places “real speech” with its continuously fluctuating amplitude and spectral characters in the patient’s preferred listening range. The Live Speech Map is displayed to the patient on a digital speech imaging computer through easily-understood graphics so that patients can actually see sounds that they are missing and be presented with a clear visual sense of hearing loss and aided benefits relating to actual speech.

Once patients view what they are missing, they’ll be able to listen through a digital hearing aid and tune their personal hearing aid until it restores the missing speech patterns and tones. So, not only will you hear the difference a hearing aid makes with your speech, you’ll be able to see the sounds being restored visually as well.

Audiologists have reported that Live Speech Mapping provides patients with an overall great sense of confidence in their hearing aid and in their hearing rehabilitation approach. In other words, when patients can actually see their hearing loss and then see how it is resolved, they are more apt to believe in the benefit of an aid, and as a result, use it as intended.

In addition, they also report a reduction in a reduction of follow-up visits required, lower practice costs, and lower costs for the patient because the Audiologist is able to “get it right the first time.”

Many audiologists offer Live Speech Mapping or Digital Speech Imaging processes. Ask whether it is done when considering a hearing wellness exam. Another way to promote overall hearing wellness is by taking the all-natural supplement, PROHIERAN.

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The power of sound is being used to obliterate prostate cancer — without causing the serious side effects the come with other treatments.

Surgeons say the high-powered beam of ultrasound is so precise that it destroys tumors without damaging delicate surrounding tissues, including the nerves that are critical for male sexual function.

Surgeons use a highly focused beam of ultrasound to target prostate tumors with pinpoint accuracy.

A three-second burst of energy vaporizes an area smaller than a grain of rice.

It’s so precise that surgeons call it the male lumpectomy. Healthy tissue, including the urine tube that runs through the middle of the prostate, and nearby nerves that control erections are unlikely to be damaged, surgeons say.

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