Professional Hearing Services in Gig Harbor
Serving the picturesque community of Gig Harbor and its surrounding areas, Rainier Mobile Audiology is dedicated to delivering exceptional hearing care and innovative solutions, bringing professional audiology services directly to your home or preferred location.
Why people choose Rainier Mobile Audiology in Gig Harbor, WA?
Rainier Mobile Audiology proudly serves Gig Harbor and its neighboring communities, including Port Orchard, Fox Island, and Maplewood, with expert hearing care delivered right to your door. Led by Dr. Jeff Baller, our Doctor of Audiology, we provide a full suite of services from detailed hearing evaluations and personalized consultations to precise fittings, tinnitus management, and earwax removal—all in the convenience of your home or chosen setting.
Utilizing advanced portable technology like Real Ear Measurements, we ensure that your hearing aids are perfectly tuned to your environment. As an independent practice, we offer a wide range of hearing aids from top manufacturers to fit different lifestyles and budgets. Choose Rainier Mobile Audiology for high-quality, personalized care that prioritizes your comfort and time. Whether you’re in Gig Harbor, Port Orchard, Fox Island, or Maplewood, we bring expert audiology services to you, helping you enjoy the sounds of your beautiful Puget Sound surroundings.
Services in Gig Harbor
Hearing evaluations are the important first step on your journey to better hearing health. A hearing evaluation, determines the presence of a hearing loss, the type of hearing loss (conductive, sensorineural, etc.), the degree of hearing loss (mild, moderate, severe, profound), and the configuration of hearing loss (single-sided or binaural). From the results of your hearing evaluation, we will work with you to determine a comprehensive treatment plan that fits with your lifestyle.
Ear wax, or cerumen, is normal to have because it protects the ear drum. However, if enough builds up it, it becomes a problem that can cause a severe, instant hearing loss as soon as it becomes 100% plugged. Do not use Q-tips, this can pack it further down the ear canal, possibly pushing through the eardrum, causing severe pain. Dr. Baller is expertly trained to remove ear wax and foreign objects with the proper tools and techniques.
Our portable equipment allows us to perform all needed services on-site. We travel to Skilled Nursing facilities, Assisted Living facilities, Memory Care facilities, Retirement communities, private home visits, hospitals, offices, etc. For many people, travel to an office is not possible due to health reasons or travel challenges, we are here to help get you the hearing care you need in the comforts of your own home.
A hearing aid evaluation is the next step once it has been determined that you have a hearing loss that is treatable with hearing aids. The hearing aid evaluation is generally included in your comprehensive hearing evaluation. There is no additional charge for a hearing aid evaluation.
Commonly known as “ringing in the ears,” tinnitus can range from mildly annoying to debilitating. Tinnitus is when you hear a ringing, buzzing, humming, whooshing, or whistling sound in your ears or head when no external sound is present. We offer solutions to help alleviate the ringing in your ears and can help you overcome your symptoms of tinnitus.
We work with many different manufacturers to offer a wide range of hearing aids. After we've evaluated your hearing and assessed your capabilities and lifestyle listening needs, we recommend a range of hearing aid options that will be most helpful for your individual hearing loss. From the most advanced technology, to the most basic for essential listening needs, but something to fit every budget.
If something isn't working right with your hearing aids, bring them in and we'll make any necessary adjustments. We can do some repairs in-office or we can send your hearing aids to the manufacturer for more complex repairs if necessary.
Live speech mapping is a test used to help during the hearing aid fitting process. Live speech mapping uses probe microphones and real-time speech to allow the patient and their family members to immediately see and understand the benefits of hearing aids and fitting adjustments.
Whether you've had your hearing aids for 1 year or 10 years, hearing can change over time. By reprogramming your devices, we can tune them up to your current hearing loss results, thereby, making the devices "essentially new". If the devices are in proper working order with no distortion, and the change in your hearing is not severe beyond the capabilities of the device, then they will sound much louder and clearer. You'll need to have a device that's one of the big 6 manufacturers (Signia, Starkey, Unitron, Widex, Phonak, Resound, Oticon) and not a locked franchise device.
We make hearing protection for musicians, hunters, racing, shooting, sleeping, swimming, pilots, concerts, etc. These can be solid, filtered, or professional devices, whatever your needs are, please protect your hearing for future well-being. For custom protection, we make ear impressions of your ear canals for a perfect fit and comfort.
Audiologist in Gig Harbor
Dr. Baller, Owner and practicing Audiologist, has been involved in mobile Audiology care since 1995. He received his Doctorate from the Arizona School of Health Sciences in 2009, his Masters degree from Lamar University in 1995. By tying best practices with empathy and practicality, Dr. Baller is a great listener and has the ability to find just the right solution for your own unique hearing demands.
He is dedicated to enhancing his patients' communication needs by providing uncompromising hearing healthcare. He has been married for 28 years, has 3 beautiful, happy children, and enjoys playing tennis, traveling, gardening, lake life, and exploring the beautiful PNW.
Hearing Aids in Gig Harbor
Features Own Voice Processing (OVP) for a natural perception of the wearer's voice, with advanced connectivity and automatic environmental adaptation for an optimized hearing experience.
