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Thank you for serving our country and protecting our freedoms. We are opened on Fri, Nov 11th. If you need hearing services, please give us a call at (406) 586-0914. If you or your loved ones are a veteran and want to learn more about our veterans services, give us a call or visit our website today. We have doctors of audiology who will be happy to help you with your hearing needs. For millions of Americans with hearing loss, understanding speech in settings with multiple sound sources is very challenging and exhausting for the brain. Until now, hearing aid technology has focused on directionality and noise reduction systems working independently so wearers of these hearing aids can focus on sound sources in front of them. The latest hearing aid technology is changing that. Helton Hearing Care is pleased to announce the arrival of the Oticon Opn™, a breakthrough hearing device that provides better speech understanding in noisy environments and is proven to make speech understanding easier on the brain for people who experience hearing loss. Opn is a revolutionary new hearing aid with BrainHearing™ technology, which allows people with hearing loss to not only hear better without having to work as hard but they also remember more of what is being said. Opn is now available at Helton Hearing Care, Bozeman, MT. When Opn opens up your hearing to a full 360 degrees, a lot of good things happen. Opn adjusts and balances all the sounds around you, not just the ones directly in front of you. Opn separates speech from noise and lets you focus on what’s important. And because Opn works in harmony with your brain to process sounds exceptionally fast, you get better speech understanding, less listening fatigue, and you’ll remember more of your conversations. How much better is Opn? Enjoy 30% better speech understanding* Reduce your listening effort by 20% Remember 20% more of your conversations** * Compared to Alta2 Pro ** Individual benefit may vary depending upon instrument prescription. A full range of wireless possibilities.
Hearing aids help you fight mental decline by staying more socially engaged as you age. A recent scientific study* showed that people who actively use hearing devices have a lower risk of mental decline as they age because they tend to stay more engaged in an active social life. Staying in the game is the key. Healthy hearing helps. * Hélène Amieva, “Self-Reported Hearing Loss: Hearing Aids and Cognitive Decline in Elderly Adults: A 25-year Study,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Want to hear what Oticon Opn™ sounds like?
If you are interested in learning more about this leading technology, and how it will be able to improve your quality of life, call us today at (406) 586-0914 to schedule an appointment for a live demo. Helton Hearing Care is Bozeman’s leading provider of Oticon technology. No other provider has more experience with this technology - or more satisfied clients. Oticon Opn™ will be available in the popular miniRITE style beginning on June 1st, 2016. Q: Did you know that hearing actually takes place in your brain, not your ears?
Dr. Helton: When you listen to a conversation, your ears and your brain work together as a system, with your brain doing most of the heavy lifting. Your brain is what uses the information from your two ears to orient you by figuring out which direction sound is coming from. It’s in the brain that sound waves become sounds that you recognize. And your brain is what helps you focus in on a conversation and separate out unwanted noise. Right now, all four of these tasks are happening simultaneously and continuously inside your brain. With so much of your hearing happening in your brain, it’s important that when your hearing is compromised, your brain gets the support it needs. That’s the idea behind the BrainHearing™ technology. BrainHearing™ technology preserves the important details in speech, so your brain doesn’t have to fill in the gaps. It enables your hearing devices to work together as a system to help you locate sound. And it reduces the effort involved in listening to conversations. The result is a more natural, effortless listening experience. To learn more about the BrainHearing™ technology, call us today at (406) 586-0914 and we will gladly answer your questions. Lifting your mood, boosting your energy, protecting your earnings, super-charging your social life — and even keeping your mind sharp: These are just some of the many spoils that come with facing and dealing with a noise-induced hearing loss that has been slowly but persistently creeping up on you. The quality-of-life and feel-good benefits of treating even just mild hearing loss brought on by years of loud music, power tools, high-volume headphones, motor-sport engines, crowded night clubs and bars, noisy restaurants, and raucous sporting events are plenty. But in this digital age of smart phones and wearable technologies, the draw for many solution-minded consumers may be in the technology itself. Super-smart, super-sleek, super-convenient, and super-sophisticated — today’s hearing aids give you a multitude of reasons to address that hearing loss you’ve been trying so hard to ignore. Consider these inspiring facts about today’s highly functional, high-powered hearing aids. They just may get you to finally do something about your hearing loss and make your life easier.
What is BrainHearing™? If you’re like most people, you’re used to thinking of hearing as something that happens in your ears. What people often don’t think about is what happens between their ears, in the hearing part of their brain. That’s where sound becomes information that has meaning. Your brain has to work hard to make this happen. When the sound signals from your ears are compromised, your brain has to work even harder to fill in the gaps. This extra effort can take its toll. In fact, studies have shown that, over time, hearing loss can lead to isolation and depression. Hearing care is health care. That’s why it makes sense to take care of your hearing health the same way you care about the rest of your health: There’s a lot more riding on it than just your hearing. It’s your brain that hears. Not your ears. When you listen to a conversation, your ears and your brain work together as a system, with your brain doing most of the heavy lifting. Your brain is what uses the information from your two ears to orient you by figuring out which direction sound is coming from. It’s in the brain that sound waves become sounds that you recognize. And your brain is what helps you focus in on a conversation and separate out unwanted noise. Right now, all four of these tasks are happening simultaneously and continuously inside your brain. How can technology help your brain hear more naturally? With so much of your hearing happening in your brain, it’s important that when your hearing is compromised, your brain gets the support it needs. That’s the idea behind the BrainHearing™ technology built into Oticon hearing instruments. BrainHearing™technology preserves the important details in speech, so your brain doesn’t have to fill in the gaps. It enables your hearing instruments to work together as a system to help you locate sound. And it reduces the effort involved in listening to conversations. Give your brain exactly what it needs to hear. BrainHearing™ technology enables Oticon hearing instruments to be finely tuned to match your unique hearing profile and personal sound preferences. Then deliver sound with the clearest, purest signal possible in the way your brain is best able to understand it. The result is a more natural, effortless listening experience. Anywhere. Anytime. *2013 Oticon Alta international Satisfaction Study, overall satisfaction for both new and experienced hearing instrument users. Oticon hearing instruments come in a wide range of styles, fitting options, colors and price points to meet your preferences for comfort and aesthetics. Want to hear more? Consult with our doctors of audiology and experience BrainHearing™ technology today. Call us 406-586-0914.
Helton Hearing Care | Hearing Center Interview Contributed by Debbie Clason, staff writer for Healthy Hearing Dr. Will Helton was a college student when his grandfather, a WWII veteran, started having hearing problems. “I saw a normally happy, outgoing and super friendly guy change,” Dr. Helton said about his grandfather. “He withdrew. He wasn’t my grandpa anymore. He saw an audiologist, was successfully fit with hearing aids and by the next week, I had my grandpa back. I said 'Hey, there’s something to this profession.'” The experience was significant enough to prompt him to go back to school and get his doctorate degree in audiology after a 10 year teaching career in the U.S. and Thailand. Helton Hearing Care, staffed by two full-time Doctors of Audiology, a COHC certified audiology assistant and experienced support personnel, differentiates itself from other providers not only by the educational qualifications of its professionals but by practicing “evidence-based” hearing care. “We aren’t afraid to see people who have very challenging losses,” Dr. Helton said. “If it’s a difficult case, we’ll schedule several appointments to fit the patient correctly. We put in the time to solve these tough cases.” They begin the process with comprehensive testing. Then, accessing the best available research regarding the treatment of each specific hearing loss, they will spend as much time as needed to both assure the best solution for the patient’s hearing needs and to personalize their hearing experience based on individual hearing preferences. And this level of care does not end at the fitting. Patients receive four years of professional, in-office service on their hearing instruments, which includes batteries and routinely available follow up appointments. They offer walk-in hours twice a day and stock “top of the line loaners” to lend to patients if their hearing devices need to be sent away for repair. One of Dr. Helton’s favorite hearing device success stories involves a minister who had tried for 20 years to get help with her hearing loss — and spent thousands of dollars on five different pairs of instruments in the process. “I found myself sitting in front of the kindest person who had a very, very difficult hearing loss,” he said. “She had to quit playing the organ and give up some of her ministerial duties at church because of it. It took me four hours to fit her correctly. Afterward, she wrote a testimonial saying she has a 'new connected life full of sounds, friends, conversation and laughter.'” Dr. Helton said making a difference in the lives of others is his favorite part of being a hearing healthcare professional, a sentiment that is shared by his staff which includes Dr. Luke Emberlin, Au.D. FAAA and Crystal Avaro, COHC. One of the ways Helton Hearing Care gives back to the Bozeman, Mont. community is by providing FM systems for local entertainment venues. They also work routinely with the local Lion’s Clubs and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, where they fit patients at or even below cost. While Dr. Helton appreciates how far hearing technology has come, he believes there’s a lot more involved in achieving success with hearing aids than the instruments themselves. “A great hearing device will only work well if it is appropriately chosen, based on thorough and professional testing, and fit precisely to a patient’s individual wants and needs. One size does not fit all,” Dr. Helton said. “Today’s consumers are savvy but they are swimming in a sea of misinformation. It’s so easy to end up losing a lot of money. If I could tell anybody anything, I’d tell them to make decisions regarding hearing instruments the way they would make any other major health care choice. That spur-of-the-moment hearing aid purchase you make at a big-box store from a flyer you received in the mail isn’t likely to be your best solution.” Good hearing choices helped Dr. Helton’s grandfather to understand those around him, to connect with the people and the activities that he loves, and to live his life fully engaged with his community. It is Helton Hearing Care’s mission to help everyone achieve such successful outcomes. “In our practice, we take a Zig Ziglar approach to patient care. His philosophy is if you help enough people get what they want, they’ll help you get what you want. When you take time to look at the whole patient and know where they’ve been, where they are now and what they want to do in the future, then you can fit them with the right technology.” Find more information by visiting the clinic's website at http://www.heltonhearing.com. Want to connect with the clinic on social media? You can find them at: YouTube Did you know that hearing actually takes place in your brain, not your ears? Because your brain is different from everyone else’s, you hear differently than anyone else. At Helton Hearing Care, our Doctors of Audiology understand how your ears and your brain work together as a system, with your brain doing the heavy lifting. When the sound signals from your ears are compromised, your brain has to work even harder to fill in the gaps. This extra effort can take its toll. In fact, studies have shown that, over time, hearing loss can lead to isolation and depression. That’s why it makes sense to take care of your hearing health the same way you care about the rest of your health.
Hearing devices with BrainHearing™ technology are the most innovative hearing solution on the market today. The devices are so advanced that they become part of you. And they just work anywhere, anytime. So you hear better with less effort. You can stay more active and involved with family, work, friends and the world around you. Over the long term, your hearing health is key to better emotional and mental health. Call us today at (406) 586-0914 to schedule your appointment. |
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