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One in ten: that’s how many people are estimated to have some kind of hearing loss in the national population. When you think about it, that’s quite an extraordinarily high proportion of the population, surely more than suffer from blindness or muteness, the roughly equivalent sensorial conditions a person can suffer from. Audio loss is no joke, and the effects which it may impose on a person only get worse with time and without adequate treatment and resolution of the problem: when somebody winds up in this kind of situation, their family relations and friendships as well as professional ties can all begin to suffer irreparable damage, and the person may begin to slide into a state of anxiety, depression, nervousness, and so on. Leaving hearing loss unaddressed can really put a brake on your life at large, bringing everything you enjoy and care about to a screeching halt—fortunately, solutions do exist to prevent this from happening, and once a person accepts the fact that they suffer from hearing loss and puts the initiative into seeking help it is possible for improvements to begin to be made.
Hearing aid technology has advanced incredibly over the last few decades to the point where today there is a whole world of options to choose from. Of course, you’ll need to carefully study along with your audiologist which option or options are best for you: not every kind of aid will be a good match, and the bigger price tag won’t always imply a better solution.
Of course, the first step lies in identifying the problem—you can’t make a wise choice in hearing aids unless you know why you suffer from audio impairment. There are two basic reasons for audio loss: conductive and sensorineural factors. The first kind, conductive hearing loss, is associated with some sort of obstruction or damage that prevents sound from being properly transmitted from the outer ear to the inner ear (i.e., the “conducting” canal is somehow damaged or obstructed). Such causes might include middle ear infections, blockages (such as excess wax production), fluid buildup, and bone damage within the ear due to trauma or related injury. The second kind, sensorineural hearing loss, has to do with the inability of the nerves inside your head to communicate sounds from the inner ear to the brain (clearly or at all, as the case may be). Causes of this kind of condition may include certain diseases (like measles or meningitis), taking certain medications, the presence of tumors, or might just be associated with the aging process.
Whatever problem is besetting your ears, you will want to clearly identify it with your audiologist to be able to pursue the most effective treatment and be able to identify the most appropriate kind of aid. Whatever kind of aid you do end up buying, you will need to continue returning to the audiologist several times after beginning to use it as this initial adaptation period requires follow-up tests and fittings to determine if things are progressing as they should.
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