This branch of medicine is concerned with treating patients hearing and balance, and related disorders.
Benefits of audiology at Bupa Cromwell Hospital
Our consultant audiologists provide a complete audiological service for adults and children.
The team is based in a custom built sound proofed suite of rooms ensuring that all external noises are screened out.
The multi-specialist team works closely with ear, nose and throat (ENT) and other surgeons and audiological physicians, and paediatric services based here at the hospital.
Conditions audiologists assess and treat
- hearing screening in newborn children
- hearing assessments in children and adults including:
- audiometry - test of full hearing function including volume and pitch and distinguishing speech from background noise
- tympanometry - an examination used to test the condition of the inner ear
- neurological investigations
- oto-acoustic or middle ear sound emissions in children and adults
- tinnitus, or the perception of sound such as ringing in the inner ear not caused by external noise
- vertigo or the perception of spinning without moving
- repositioning manoeuvres for treatment of dizziness
- hearing aid provision and fitting
- cochlear implant fitting
- pre-surgery assessment
- speech and language therapy
- air and bone conduction
- custom made ear plugs for swimming, hearing protection
