Over time, reduced stimulation to your ears and brain can actually diminish the brain’s ability to process sound and recognize speech. The more speech recognition deteriorates, the more difficult it is to recover it.
The sooner you take action, the sooner you can put an end to the negative effects of your hearing loss and the sooner you can regain confidence and control of your life.
Hearing loss is a medical term that can be defined as hearing loss. In practice, this means that you cannot hear properly. In the process of proper hearing, a number of processes take place in our body.
Hearing loss is associated with abnormalities in these processes or with damage to the organs involved.
In the first stage, sound enters the ear canal, collides with the eardrum, and causes it to vibrate. This vibration then travels to a chain of tiny bones that stimulate the cochlea.
Inside the cochlea are cells that convert this vibrational information into energy. This energy is in turn transmitted as a nerve impulse through the auditory nerve to the brainstem. From here, the nerve impulse then travels to the cerebral cortex. Only at this point are we aware of the sound. Of course, this whole process takes fractions of a second.
Symptoms of hearing loss
Unfortunately, the detection of this disease is usually too late. This is due to the compensatory strategies that our body uses in the early stages of the development of hearing loss. There is a wide spectrum of changes related to hearing loss.
Its main symptom is perceived hearing loss or deterioration. In general, sounds of low intensity are less heard in conductive hearing loss.
In contrast, if there is sensorineural hearing loss, it is difficult for the patient to distinguish between the sounds, although he may hear quite intensely.
It often happens that in the case of hearing loss, the patient can hear sharp sounds much worse. For this reason, she has far fewer problems hearing male voices than female voices.
Treatment of sensorineural hearing loss
Sensorineural hearing loss is a disturbance in the processing of sounds. This means that the sound waves correctly travel to the inner ear, but are not properly processed and directed to the brain. As a consequence, the sound is hard to hear, does not reach the brain at all, or is distorted, known as central hearing loss.
In such cases, the causes are usually not reversible. Therefore, it is usually necessary to implant a prosthesis that performs a sensorineural receiving function. There are implantable and non-implantable prosthetic solutions as therapeutic options.
Hearing aids are non-implantable prosthetic solutions. As spectacles are important for weak eyesight hearing aids are important for hearing loss. They modify the sound in one way or another depending on the hearing needs of each patient. In contrast, implantable prosthetic solutions are basically of two types:
· Phonak Hearing aids that replace the function of the Corti organ.
· Brain stem hearing implants. They directly stimulate this area without having to pass sound through the inner ear or the auditory nerve.
In conclusion, remember that only an appropriately trained professional can recommend and help you decide which treatment option will be most appropriate for you.
