The Institute for Hearing & Balance in New York offers its patients from The Bronx comprehensive treatment options from a team of experienced audiologists. We understand that every patient is different, and we strive to give sufficient time and attention to understand your specific needs, lifestyle, and goals. This allows our team to offer you a comprehensive diagnosis, assessment, and the best treatment. We also believe in educating our patients along the way, and our team will work in collaboration with your other doctors and physicians to make sure you enjoy a high quality of life. The Institute for Hearing & Balance uses a combination of time-tested fundamentals with the latest technology for your hearing and balance issues. Your treatment may take months, and we continuously do a reassessment of your issues to ensure you are getting the best treatment and reaching your goals with each treatment.

Once your hearing and balance issues have been diagnosed, it allows us to offer you a personalized solution so that your concerns are addressed in an effective manner. The continued reassessment and adjustment to your treatment help us achieve your goals each time.

Dizziness and Balance

Balance is pivotal to our everyday lives and existence, so much so that we may even take it for granted. Balance is required for our everyday activities including walking and moving about. When this gets affected due to a health issue, only then do we realize how important it is. When you begin to suffer from poor balance or dizziness issues, even standing or sitting may become difficult. You may have experienced sudden dizziness or spinning; however, if this becomes regular with similar symptoms, you must schedule a consultation with our expert team.

Getting a Balance Assessment

Deficiencies in balance can be a complex issue, which can be caused because of various reasons. We strive to determine the underlying reason of your balance issues; the prompt and accurate diagnosis is essential since your concerns may need urgent attention. Our doctors of audiology will conduct a series of tests that will help us determine the possible reasons for your balance concerns. Your balance has an intricate link with the mechanism of your eyes, ears, muscles, nerves, and brain. When we check the functioning of your nerves, inner ears, and other systems, it helps us to determine what is affecting your body’s innate ability to sense its location and position in relation to the space around you. This is how we check and assess your balance ability.

Some of the tests we perform to check for the reason for your dizziness include the following:

  • Comprehensive Audiological Evaluation: this is a complete assessment of your hearing ability. It will check the different functions of your ears and the kinds of hearing loss you may be facing. A loss in balance can often be caused because of an abnormality in your inner ear or hearing loss. Our experts conduct a physical examination of your inner ear to check for issues with the anatomy or wax problems to ensure the proper functioning of your inner ear. These tests include listening to sounds or using instruments to check the response of your inner ear to various stimuli.
  • Auditory Brainstem Response: this test will assess the nerve that connects your inner ear to the brainstem. Sounds will be played through an earpiece while electrodes that are placed on your scalp will measure the natural response of this nerve.
  • Electrocochleography: this is a test to check the environment of the nerve and your inner ear. Electrodes will be used to measure the electrical signals that are generated in your inner ear and the auditory nerve whenever a sound is received.
  • Videonystagmography (VNG): this test uses special goggles to check the movement and response of your eyes when you are placed in different positions and while you undergo different movements. When we assess certain movements of your eyes caused in particular positions, it helps us to understand the functioning of your inner ear and different parts of the complete balance system.

Balance treatments

It is imperative that you get the correct diagnosis of your balance concerns so that we can help you with appropriate treatment and help you live a better life. Imbalance can lead to different issues such as dizziness, spinning sensation or vertigo and other vestibular issues. Our doctors of audiology will help you assess your dizziness issues and then guide you to the right treatment or a specialist if we think you will get better assistance. Here are the treatments that our patients from The Bronx can choose from:

About The Bronx, NY

The Bronx is a borough of New York City and the third most densely populated county in the country. It is located south of Westchester County, east and northeast of Manhattan and north of Queens. The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the west and a flatter section in the east. About a quarter of the Bronx is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortland Park, Pelham Bay Park, the Bronx Zoo, and the New York Botanical Garden. There is much to experience and enjoy in The Bronx. It was where author Edgar Allan Poe died and where he wrote Annabel Lee. Hip hop first emerged in the South Bronx in the early 1970s. It is also the home of the New York Yankees and features several Off-Off-Broadway theaters. The Bronx is a hub of arts as well with the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx Museum of the Arts; it had also become home to a poetic tribute in the form of “Heinrich Heine Memorial.” The Bronx has a maritime heritage, and canoeing and kayaking is encouraged on the Bronx River. You can enjoy the many community celebrations including the Bronx Week held in May, Fish Parade and Summer Festival at the start of summer, and the Ragamuffin children’s walk-in November.