The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) reports that 15 percent of adults over the age of 18 experience some degree of hearing loss. While the immediate impacts of hearing loss on an individual’s ability to communicate effectively are obvious, there are other, harder-to-detect issues linked to the condition, including dementia.
Hearing loss prevention requires a carefully coordinated series of lifestyle choices and audiological intervention. Age is the single most significant predictor of hearing loss in individuals, which means that it’s increasingly important for people to care for their hearing health as they continue to age. Most types of hearing loss are impossible to reverse; prevention is the best way for people to maintain their hearing health.
Causes of hearing loss
There are three primary types of hearing loss, as defined by the Mayo Clinic: conductive hearing loss, which involves the outer or middle ear; sensorineural hearing loss, which involves the inner ear; and mixed hearing loss, which is a combination of both.
Sound travels through three parts of your ear in order for you to hear. First, it moves through the outer ear. Then, it travels through the middle ear, where three small bones cause the vibrations to become amplified as they enter into the inner ear. Within the inner ear, the vibrations pass through a fluid that sits inside the cochlea. The cochlea, which is a snail-shaped structure, connects to nerves that convert the vibrations into electrical signals that are then sent to the brain.
This story is from the November/December 2019 edition of Alternative Medicine.
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