HEARING LOSS

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HEARING LOSS

• Everyone knows what is hearing. Hearing is the
  important part of our life and we know that
  hearing is only the feeling. It does not exist
  physically. But there are some people that cant
  hear or hear mild. Problem in hearing the sound
  is called the Hearing loss. Hearing loss is also
  known as the hearing impairment. Hearing
  impairment means the problem in the part of one
  ear or ears. This problem occurred as the age
  increases. As we know that 10 million of people
  in America having the problem in hearing.

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HOW HEARING WORK?

• As we know that our ear is divided into the three
  sections
• Outer ear
• Middle ear
• Inner ear
• Source- Hearing Loss

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• Outer ear Outer ear receives the waves from
  the outside environment and then transfers them
  into the middle ear through the ear canal.
• Middle ear Middle ear receives these waves
  and these waves hit the eardrum in the middle
  ear. Eardrum starts to vibrate and generates the
  three tiny bones in your ear.
• These bones are called hammer, anvil, stirrup .
• Inner ear - In the Inner ear the sound is
  generated with the help of these tiny bones.
• Source- Hearing Loss

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CATEGORIES OF HEARING LOSS
Hearing Loss Differs people to people. There are
various categories of Hearing Loss. It ranges
from mild to severe to profound. Mild Hearing
Loss is when a person finds it difficult to keep
up with soft conversations in loud/noisy
surroundings. Moderate Hearing Loss is when a
person can not listen to the moderate speech in
noisy surroundings. Severe Hearing Loss,
wherein a person cannot hear loud speech without
the usage of hearing aid. The last level is
Profound Hearing Loss, which means difficulty in
hearing even with the usage of hearing aids.
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TYPES OF HEARING LOSS

• Conductive Hearing Loss
• Sensorineural Hearing Loss
• Mixed Hearing Loss
• Neural Hearing Loss

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CONDUCTIVE HEARING LOSS

• Conductive hearing loss occurs when there is a
  problem with the way sound is conducted to the
  inner ear or cochlea.
• The problem may lie in the outer ear (pinna or
  ear canal), eardrum (tympanic membrane).

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SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS

• Sensorineural (sen-sory-nuhral) hearing loss
  occurs when there is a problem with the sensory
  receptors of the hearing system, specifically in
  the cochlea of the inner ear.
• Sensorineural hearing Loss occur in the inner ear.

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MIXED HEARING LOSS

• Mixed hearing loss occurs when a person has an
  existing sensorineural hearing loss in
  combination with a conductive hearing loss.
• It is, very literally, a mix of sensorineural
  and conductive hearing

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NEURAL HEARING LOSS

• Neural hearing loss occurs when the auditory
  nerve that carries impulses from the cochlea to
  the brain is missing or abnormal.
• It is difficult to determine the exact location
  of neural hearing loss.