Comments on: How does hearing loss work? http://www.ihearclear.com/blog/how-does-hearing-loss-work/ Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: kAudio http://www.ihearclear.com/blog/how-does-hearing-loss-work/comment-page-1/#comment-1300 kAudio Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:27:56 +0000 http://www.ihearclear.com/blog/how-does-hearing-loss-work/#comment-1300 Hearing loss is complex and is different from person to person. Our auditory system is similar to a piano - we have nerves that respond to each and every frequency. The symptoms that result from hearing loss will depend on the type of hearing loss you have. Typically with age, we begin to lose our hearing in the high pitches - speech may sound muffled or you may have difficult hearing the birds chirp or the leaves blow. Over time as the loss progresses, it may affect the mid pitches will affect your ability to hear speech even further. For some they may experience loss equally over all the pitches - it just depends on the cause and type of hearing loss. Hearing loss typically does come on gradual so persons often do not know they have hearing loss until it worsens or until they have their hearing tested. Just as we compensate with our vision, we compensate with our hearing. Some persons experience sudden hearing loss; however this is more rare: To learn more about hearing loss, causes, symptoms, how we hear, etc I would visit the following site - a wonderful consumer online resource for info on hearing loss: Hearing loss is complex and is different from person to person. Our auditory system is similar to a piano - we have nerves that respond to each and every frequency. The symptoms that result from hearing loss will depend on the type of hearing loss you have. Typically with age, we begin to lose our hearing in the high pitches - speech may sound muffled or you may have difficult hearing the birds chirp or the leaves blow. Over time as the loss progresses, it may affect the mid pitches will affect your ability to hear speech even further.

For some they may experience loss equally over all the pitches - it just depends on the cause and type of hearing loss.

Hearing loss typically does come on gradual so persons often do not know they have hearing loss until it worsens or until they have their hearing tested. Just as we compensate with our vision, we compensate with our hearing. Some persons experience sudden hearing loss; however this is more rare:

To learn more about hearing loss, causes, symptoms, how we hear, etc I would visit the following site - a wonderful consumer online resource for info on hearing loss:

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