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Types of Ear Hearing Loss
April 29th, 2009 by admin
Have you being responding: “What did you say?” in most of your conversation with people of recent? If your answer is yes, then you are suffering from hearing loss and may need a digital hearing aid. Hearing loss is simply a reduced ability or an outright inability to detect and /or comprehends sounds. However, before you jump into a conclusion as regards suffering from hearing loss or not, make sure you have consulted an audiologist. An audiologist is a hearing health expert that carryout tests to know the extent and severity of hearing loss in individuals. He also provides treatments base on the results of the tests.
If you are diagnosed and found to be suffering from hearing loss, then it could be any of these: conductive hearing loss, sensory hearing loss, a combination of conductive and sensory hearing loss, and neural hearing loss. Conductive hearing loss is temporary and less severe. It is the result of damage to the outer or middle ear and can be cured through the help of medical treatments. Damage to tiny hair cells of the cochlea in the inner ear is the cause of sensory hearing loss. A patient could go deaf if the damage is profound. These hair cells are very important to hearing because they detect, amplify and send sounds to hearing nerve for final passage to the brain. Neural hearing loss has to do with the inability to make out the meaning or sounds. This occurs when the connectivity between the hair cells and the brain is damage. In other words, damage to hearing nerves is the cause of neural hearing loss.
