High-tech shouldn’t mean

high-maintenanceReady for the real world

For over 30 years, MED-EL engineers have focused on developing the most technically advanced hearing technology – and making it a part of you.

Your hearing depends on having the most innovative and highly sophisticated technology. But your life depends on having the smallest and lightest audio processor possible, packed with components designed to automatically adjust to different hearing environments. MED-EL offers both performance and ease-of-use, plus the reliability and consistently low repair returns that make life easier for CI users and the professionals who serve them.

With MED-EL, you can live life, and let the audio processor do the work for you.

You can simply forget it’s there.

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Real-world technology for the real world

We designed the world’s first behind-the-ear processor in 1991 to be as hassle-free as possible. Engineers integrated features specifically designed to make the hearing experience as natural and automatic as possible, across rapidly changing environments.

Today, we continue to set ourselves apart. In fact, a recent study1 shows that MED-EL listeners with Automatic Sound Management technology greatly outperformed other brands in environments with varying noise levels – conditions more like the real world.

MED-EL knows and understands that the real world is both a noisy place... and quiet place. It’s unpredictable and changes fast. Who wants to remember to switch programs for various listening environments? With MED-EL technology – you never have to!

Your ears are designed to work automatically, shouldn’t cochlear implants do the same?

1 Haumann et al. 8th Int. Conf. of the Europ. Soc of Paed. ORL, Budapest 2008.

What’s on your Playlist?JIMMY M (age 52, implanted 2001)

Eagles – Hotel California, Heartache TonightFleetwood Mac – Don’t Stop, Go Your Own Way, DreamsJackson Browne – Running on EmptyOtis Redding – Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Steve Winwood – Higher LoveStevie Wonder – I Just Called to Say I Love You

PAM M (age 41, implanted 2002)

Grease Soundtrack – Greased Lightnin’, Summer NightsREO Speedwagon – Take it On the RunABBA – Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on MeElectric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky, Turn to StoneDuran Duran – Rio, Come Undone, Hungry Like a Wolf Hall and Oats – Maneater, You Make My Dreams

CHAD F (age 20, implanted 2002)

Augustana – BostonBen Harper – Better WayBlink 182 – All the Small ThingsEve 6 – BangGreen Day – Wake Me Up When September EndsJack Johnson – Flake

RACHEL S: (age 5, implanted 2004)

High School Musical Soundtracks

JEFF C (Age 42, implanted 2001)

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – King of Swing, Go Daddy-OBilly Joel – Piano Man, Tell Her About ItBuddy Holly – Maybe Baby, Oh Boy, It’s So EasyJames Taylor – Shower the People, Fire and RainJohnny Cash – Walk the Line, Ring of FireRomantics – What I Like About You

MADALYN H (age 9, implanted 2004)

High School Musical Soundtrack – Just Want to Be With YouMiley Cyrus – Life’s What You Make ItBeatles – Here Comes the SunThis Land is My LandSongs from “Seussical” the Musical

KERI R (age 50, implanted 2003)

Beach Boys – Barbara Ann, California Girls, KokomoThe Eagles – Take it to the Limit, Desperado Kenny G – Loving You, Forever in LoveElton John – Crocodile Rock, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart

MYLA J (age 13, implanted 2000)

Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom PowBeyonce – HaloTaylor Swift – CrazierShinedown – Second ChanceLady Gaga – Pokerface, Just DanceKeith Urban – Sweet Thing

DEVIN H (age 15, implanted 2002)

Weezer – Pork and BeansFlobots – HandlebarsColdplay – Viva La VidaJohn Mayer – The Heart of LifeVampire Weekend – Campus

With MED-EL, the music is ALWAYS on

Leave the big biology lecture hall, chat on your phone, and then dance to your favorite tunes – and don’t even touch your processor.

Enjoying music is a very popular goal among cochlear implant recipients. The latest MED-EL technological achievements, FineHearing* and Complete Cochlear Coverage, provide cochlear implant users a music experience that is closer to natural hearing than ever before.

In fact, a music appreciation study shows that 84% of MED-EL users reported that with FineHearing they listened to music at least once a week, if not everyday. Music was reported to be a pleasant experience and sounding more natural. Many recipients were even able to recognize individual instruments!

Even better, users don’t need to select a special program to enjoy music. With MED-EL’s Automatic Sound Management technology, CI users can enjoy a symphony, a telephone conversation, and a dinner party – all on ONE program.

Life is complicated enough... your hearing experience shouldn’t be.

* The Fine Structure Processing coding strategy is not indicated for prelingual children in the US.

Quickly getting everyone up to speedMED-EL’s OPUS 2 processor is getting rave reviews from cochlear implant recipients and professionals. Its sleek design makes it the thinnest and most lightweight audio processor on the market today. And its high-rate signal processing has made the hearing experience more natural than ever before.

Using the latest advances in sound processing technology, the OPUS 2 supports innovative developments offering implant users greater sound detail and clarity, especially for music enjoyment and difficult listening situations.

MED-EL’s team of software engineers and product managers made it a top priority to unveil this new, exciting technology for ALL recipients of the COMBI 40+ implant. In a very short time – unprecedented in the industry – users with previous-generation devices can take advantage of everything the OPUS 2 has to offer.

In just under a year, the OPUS 2 was made available for previous generation recipients. :: More than 30 years of experience in developing

innovative hearing implant systems

:: MED-EL hearing implants are being implanted in over 80 countries worldwide

:: Every day, more and more individuals worldwide rely on MED-EL to connect to the rich world of sound

The fastest growing hearing implant company in the world.

MED-EL Corporation, North America 2511 Old Cornwallis Road, Suite 100 Durham, NC 27713 toll free (888) MEDEL-CI (633-3524)V/TDD phone (919) 572-2222fax (919) 484-9229 email implants@medelus.com

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