General Practitioners

• Pediatric Care
  Visual Reinforcement Audiometry: The sound booth is equipped with VRA to reward head turns elicited in response to auditory stimuli. Ear specific thresholds, word discrimination, and aided sound field responses can be quantified.
• Primary Care
  We work with several local primary care physicians, pediatricians, and ear nose and throat specialists. Each patient that is referred for evaluation will receive a formal report back to you with our findings and recommendations.
• Ear Infections
  Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are referred for a variety of reasons: the baby may have failed the hospital newborn hearing screening, the infant may have a persistent ear infection or delayed vocalizations, the toddler may show delayed speech or language, or the school-age child may have failed the school screen.

Neurologists

• Multiple Sclerosis
  Neural – affects the auditory branch of Cranial Nerve VIII. Causes include presbycusis, tumors, multiple sclerosis and infection.

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  E. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Conquer negative emotions about tinnitus. Are you catastrophizing your thoughts about your tinnitus? See handout of 12 common distorted thoughts people think about their tinnitus. Is tinnitus related to underlying anxiety? Is it affecting your mental health? Can talk therapy or medication be beneficial to you?

Radiologist

• MRI
  After your audiology visit, you will need to meet with a cochlear implant surgeon who will evaluate your candidacy from a medical standpoint. You will have to have a CT or MRI and any necessary clearances for surgery. Adult cochlear implant surgeries in Knoxville are typically performed at outpatient surgery and you are able to go home the same day. You will have some activity restrictions at first.

Dermatologists

• Lesions
  Sensorineural – this term identifies hearing loss resulting from both sensory and neural sites, even including the brainstem and cortical pathways. In addition to causes previously described, vascular lesions may cause this.