Deafening Sound - How Hearing Works

How we hear sounds, and why we loose our hearing over time. Too much noise can temporarily tire hair cells, cutting down signals to the brain. Usually this corrects itself, but repeated exposure to loud noise can leave you with permanent high tone loss and sometimes chronic ringing called tinnitus, a condition that affects tens of millions of Americans.

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[NETnebraska]

According to the MayoClinic, there is no treatment for tinnitus caused by age or excessive noise. Tinnitus caused by other factors can be treated in a variety of ways.

[3931Kong]

I'm scared of tinnitus ever since I watched a tinnitus simulation video. It had tinnitus and heart echo... the tinnitus in this video scared the shit outta me.

[TheWeedPuffers]

who else is here cause of science class? -___-

[mattkaslow]

I love how you can barely hear the audio on these hearing loss videos.

[cpgone]

@NETnebraska

Tinnitus is not treatable at this time.,

I know , I have it

[detonatemate]

Of all those hair cells, only the 3000 inner hair cells per ear actually detect cells. The outer hair cells, which were shown dancing, don't actually transmit sound but make it even clearer. Hearing loss due to lack of cells is far out the scope of medical science at the moment. Neurological hearing impediments, such as tinnatus, have more treatment potential, but we haven't had our big breakthrough yet...

[staraction]

i got it when i was 15 and i am 27 now and i have it for 12 years now and let me tell ya...it is horrible and because of Tinnitus i got Presbycusis which is hearing loss in my both ears

[Radissen1]

There are no cures for tinnitus..

I first got tinnitus when I was 12.

[Swagman00]

Hasek, with 1/3rd of combat vets experiencing hearing loss, the new lift of the stem cell ban and the rapid research conducted in the last 10 years, I'd say it'd be less then 20....maybe even 10 when they could do it.

[Zell1995]

I have it, but I think its more physchological than anything. If you don't think about it for too long, it goes away.

[hasek39theman]

Currently no... But there are many projects going on around the world and the outlook is positive. Within the next thirty years or so it would not be out of the box to suggest that we may have a cure for noise induced hearing loss.