Hear Effortlessly

How well can you hear with your hearing instruments? Are you still struggling to hear in noisy settings? Having a hard time to follow conversation on the phone, listen to your favorite songs, or catch little details like your children/grandchildren´s giggles? If you say yes to one of those questions above, it means hearing instruments are not enough for you.

Why hearing instruments are not enough?

For people with severe to profound sensorineural hearing losses, hearing instruments are often unable to improve their ability to hear faint sound and speech understanding. This is because hearing aids only amplify sound to the inner ear. However in severe to profound sensorineural hearing losses, the loss of hearing is due to damage in the inner ear especially to the tiny hair cells in the cochlea. These hair cells convert acoustic vibrations into electrical signals for the auditory nerve to send to the brain. Without these hair cells, people cannot understand the sound that they perceived. That´s why they something different, something more advanced than hearing instruments, something like Cochlear Implant.

What is Cochlear Implant and how it works?

Cochlear implant is a device that provides direct electrical stimulation to the auditory nerve. It bypasses the outer ear, middle ear and the damaged inner ear. As seen in Figure 1, a cochlear implant consists of 2 parts. One part on the outside of the user is used to collect sounds through a microphone and process them into a digital signal. That signal is sent through an antenna (referred to as a headpiece) which is magnetically positioned over the implant. The other portion consists of the implant which is placed under the skin, behind the ear. The implant receives the signal from the headpiece and delivers it to an array of electrodes positioned within the cochlea. The electrodes stimulate the hearing nerve fibers directly and send electric signals to the brain where these signals are interpreted as sound.

Hear effortlessly with Cochlear Implant

Not only it helps people with severe to profound sensorineural hearing losses to hear again, now cochlear implant also featured with advanced technologies which help the users to hear at their best and effortlessly throughout the day. One of them is the AutoSound™ technology which you can find in the Harmony® BTE Sound Processor and Platinum Series™ Sound Processor (PSP) from Advanced Bionics. With the AutoSound™ technology, you don´t have to worry about adapting to different kind of listening situations, from quite office to cars or trains, or to restaurants and social gatherings. These sound processor will automatically adapts to each environment so there´s no need for you to fumble with dials, switches, or remote controls every time you move from quiet to loud settings. So you can hear effortlessly all day, every day.

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Caption a) Harmony® BTE Sound Processor  b) and Platinum Series™ Sound Processor (PSP
If you´d like more information on how cochlear implants may be beneficial to you or one of your family members, contact The Hearing Solution Group representatives for more information.
*All pictures and information are provided by Advanced Bionics