Services we provide by appointment:
- Diagnostic Hearing Assessments - Adults/Children5+
- Hearing Aid Fitting/Servicing/Batteries
- Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR)
- Balance, Dizziness, Vertigo Assessments
- Custom Hearing Protection
- Wax Removal by Microsuction
It’s your choice…
- Palmerston North Clinic or Feilding Clinic.
Available in Palmerston North Clinic
We have introduced comprehensive Balance Assessment to our PN clinic, for those people suffering from Balance , Dizziness, or Vertigo problems.
Every patient who is assessed for Balance/Dizziness/Vertigo, must first have a Diagnostic Hearing Assessment - because some balance problems can be related to abnormal function of the inner ear. This would usually be done on a prior appointment to any specific Balance Assessment.
The equipment we use for Balance Assessment is the ICS Impulse, which consists of:
* High-speed USB camera to measure eye movements, including the ability to record the eye and identify catch-up saccades, nystagmus and skew deviation.
* Superior sensor that measures head movement and allows for Head Position Feedback.
* Built-in calibration lasers that provide stimulus for calibration and oculomotor testing.
Balance Tests
This is a suite of tests using the ISC Impulse equipment. Not all tests would be necessary for every patient, but all are available at Heartland Hearing & Balance. Sometimes these tests may be performed over more that one appointment.
Oculomotor: simple and quick tests that assist in determining if the disorder is central or peripheral.
Head Impulse (vHIT): assesses all six semicircular canals, using fast but small head movements.
Positional: assesses and treats patients with BPPV with increased accuracy.
Caloric: is used to discover the degree to which the vestibular system is responsive, and also how symmetric the responses are between left and right ears.
