Healthy Hearing Healthy Brain

Hearing works 1000 times faster than vision, processing 25-30 phonemes per second.

Did you know you have 2 hearing organs and a hearing center in your brain? Hearing actually happens in the brain. Ears are the factory for hearing, sending sound to the brain for processing and understanding. Damage in the hearing factory prevents the brain from getting the precise sound ingredients it needs to quickly process and understand speech. And when the auditory center of the brain is not stimulated, brain scans show the brain atrophies.

Research released by Johns Hopkins revealed even a mild hearing loss left untreated can double the risk for dementia. Caution, volume alone is not the best treatment for hearing loss. In fact, sending too much sound through the hearing organ, even at a single frequency, can damage weak hearing cells causing a bigger lifelong problem. Hearing problems can become brain problems and brain problems are life problems.

Hearing preservation, a new field in health care, founded by Dr. Lori Halvorson, AuD has launched the first in the world preventive care clinic in Lake Forest, Duet Hearing Preservation. The team of hearing doctors at Duet are specially trained in preservation of hearing anatomy and cognitive health, experts in the anatomy of the auditory system, hearing organs, the brainstem and the auditory cortex of the brain, providing a new standard of hearing health care: Education, Hearing, Cognition, Preservation.

Duet leads with a modern healthcare approach, treating hearing from the inside out. The hearing doctors at Duet provide comprehensive personalized care of exceptional caliber with cutting-edge strategies, innovative techniques, and sincere compassion. The consultation includes thorough education of the auditory system, a comprehensive diagnostic exam to understand what parts of the auditory pathway damaged, precise prescriptive calculated sound input are, and hearing fitness therapies to strengthen sound input to the brain.

Patients often report spending a lot of money on hearing aids followed by a sense of abandonment after the transaction is over. Duet Hearing preservation aims for better care and better results. New diagnostic exams to better evaluate hearing cells and the auditory cortex in the brain. New hearing treatment options and hearing fitness plans to strengthen neural pathways. New Hearing Loss prevention – Duet will guide you on the latest research that can help prevent damage and enhance hearing and cognitive wellness.

DUET Hearing Preservation preserving hearing & cognitive health ... every ear, every age 847-295-1185 Northfield Lake Forest Chicago