Hearing aids are a large investment, so it’s important that your devices are personalized to your individual hearing requirements.
Style, comfort, and functionality all play a part in finding a hearing aid that’s right for you.
Think of it like a pair of glasses – you wouldn’t borrow your friend’s glasses for reading and expect them to work. Well, it’s the same with hearing aids.
One method of precision that we use is real ear measurement.
Finding a clinic that offers real ear measurement near you is important, ensuring you receive maximum benefit from hearing aid amplification.
What Is A Real Ear Measurement?
Real ear measurement (REM) or probe-mic measurements is a tool that audiologists use when customizing hearing aids to your hearing prescription.
This tool measures the sound pressure level coming out of the hearing aid and hitting your eardrum. This is important because everyone’s ear canals are slightly different, and these differences can make a huge impact on the sound quality of the hearing aids.
Real ear measurement testing offers a higher level of accuracy to ensure that factors such as size and shape are taken into account, which results in better performance of the device.
Truly, no two patients will ever have the same hearing loss, so real ear measurement is a way to get individualized results, allowing us to properly program your hearing aids.
The results are then compared based on the patient’s age, gender, hearing loss, cognitive health, noise tolerance, and hearing aid experience.
Once concluded, we then make small changes to the hearing aid programming to ensure it accounts for soft, medium, and loud sounds.
Why Is It Important?
Real ear measurement is not performed by all audiologists; however, this type of measuring offers the highest level of accuracy.
Most recently, Consumer Reports issued an article reporting that 70% of hearing aid fittings were inaccurate when tested using REM.
With patient satisfaction our highest priority, we are proud to offer the best practice for our audiology clinics.
If you have any questions about real ear measurement and why it is important, please give us a call at (812) 532-3011.
The results are then compared based on the patient’s age, gender, hearing loss, cognitive health, noise tolerance, and hearing aid experience.
Once concluded, we then make small changes to the hearing aid programming to ensure it accounts for soft, medium, and loud sounds.
