Aspire Hearing and Balance LLC

Aspire Hearing & Balance is passionate & dedicated to providing patients, their families, & the Lakeland community with the highest quality hearing healthcare.

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Whenever I tell my patients, “we hear with our brains, not our ears”, they usually shake their head in approval and respond, “I never thought of it that way before, but that makes sense.”

Our ears just pick up the sound and transform it into nerve impulses that our brain

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Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life. 💛

Tag your friend below!

#friends #friendship #lucky #lakeland #southlakeland #visitlakeland #lakelandlove #shoplocal #privatepractice #audiology #audiologist #ea

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Some people mumble, and cell phone reception isn’t perfect, but if you find yourself saying, "What?" a lot and asking them to repeat themselves, you may have hearing loss.

Like the game Whispers, you feel like the person who is last to get the message. Maybe you'll hear, "Eat

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Did you know that treating your hearing loss with hearing aids can almost always help reduce your perception of tinnitus? 😯

As an audiologist, I am trained and qualified to help you treat your tinnitus. More than 90% of people who have tinnitus also have hearing loss. 💥

I

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Check out some tips to help reduce and minimize your exposures to loud sounds. The following sound safety tips will equip you in protecting your hearing!

LOWER THE VOLUME: If possible, decrease the volume on your personal listening devices such as your phone, car stereo, etc. O

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Nucleus 7

The smartest, the lightest, behind the ear hearing cochlear implant solution made for iPhone. 📱

Did you know that this is an implantable device? I get a lot of questions regarding implantation.❓

Implantable devices for hearing loss aren't new. They have been per

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You are the artist of your own life.
🖌
Untreated hearing loss can cause barriers.
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Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else. Be your very best self.

#artist #health #audiology #hearingloss #hearing #people #hearingtest #ears #lakeland #betterhearingstartsat #aspirehear

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Hearing loss as a result of noise is often preventable. The best way to make sure that you are protecting your hearing is to:

✅ Lower the volume on all personal listening devices

✅ Wear over-the-counter hearing protection, such as ear plugs or earmuffs. Make sure you are i

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Did you know there are Olympians with hearing loss??

Jeff Float was the first legally deaf athlete from the United States to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the Olympic games in 1984. 🥇

AND he was the first deaf Olympian to openly display the universal ILY (I love you) sign on

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So.... who is the Osia system for?

> You have to be at least 12 years old to be a candidate for this implantable device.

>You also need to have a certain type of hearing loss that doesn’t allow sound to travel well through the outer or middle ear.

The implant works by usin

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In my experience most people grieve hearing loss and some people never really accept it. Have you ever encountered someone who said they didn’t like their hearing aids? As an audiologist when someone tells me that I am quick to reassure people of all the different reasons someo

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Per the CDC, the following information illustrates how long you need to be exposed to common sounds, on average, before they will cause damage to your inner ear.

❗ Gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers are about 80-85 decibels and damage to your hearing can be caused after

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How would you know if you developed noise induced hearing loss (NIHL)??

Clinically we see that patients with NIHL will notice:
→ Tinnitus: ringing or noises in the ears
→ Speech is muffled or unclear: inhibiting their ability to follow conversation and hear in challenging l

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Happy National Ice Cream Day! We love some ice cream on a warm summer day...we’ll be checking out Lakeland Ice Cream Company for our fill of sweet treats!

What’s your favorite ice cream flavor!? 🍦

#nationalicecreamday #icecream #favoriteflavor
#lakelandicecream #BestIc

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Kanso 2

Wondering what is REALLY new in the hearing loss industry?!

As audiologists, we are the most experienced in our industry when it comes to hearing loss technology.

There is now an off-the-ear sound processor with ADVANCED connectivity in a simple and durable all-in-one

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Did you know that by utilizing hearing protection in noisy environments you are more likely to:

✅ Decrease your chances of cognitive decline
✅ Decrease your chances of tinnitus
✅ Decrease your risk of social isolation and depression

For those who use hearing protection, k

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Did you know that noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) can happen at any age??? People of all ages, including children, young adults, and older individuals can develop NIHL.

→ A study in 2011 found that at least 10 million adults in the U.S. under the age of 70 had hearing tests

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Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA)

This is a photo of a hearing aid that helps treat conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss and single-sided deafness (SSD).

This type of hearing aid has to be surgically implanted to allow the sound to bypass the damaged part of the ear, sen

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“Let me guess, you’re a right-handed shooter”
“Uh yeah… how did you know?”

Did you know that as an audiologist I can tell what hand you pull the trigger with? 😮

This is why:
The left ear (in right-handed shooters) often suffers more damage than the right ear beca

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Did you know that at Aspire Hearing & Balance we have an abundance of knowledge regarding implantable devices?

For example, this is a photo of the Osia System designed by Cochlear. Cochlear is the global leader in implantable hearing solutions.

Hearing aids are not always the