The way in which we hear is a rather complex system involving the smallest bones in the human body known as the Stapes, but it also includes several small snail shaped object known as the cochlea. The cochlea are critical to the hearing process and if damaged can cause hearing loss–either mild or severe.
However, nowadays there is a cochlear implant surgery which can help improve your hearing significantly if you have a severe hearing loss. Let’s take a look and see why cochlear implants can help those with profound hearing loss:
The cochlea has three parts which are filled with a watery fluid, and whenever there are vibrations received from the stapes in the middle ear, the water will shift according to the frequency. From that point, thousands of tiny hair cells will begin to vibrate– converting the movement of the fluid into electric signals. These electric signals are then moved to the auditory nerves which then pass on to the brainstem for further processing. So we can see that the cochlea is very important to the hearing process and if there is a problem why it would cause profound hearing loss.
Fortunately hearing technology is constantly improving–cochlear implants are a new piece of technology that can help regain much of the hearing which was lost. The cochlear implant is used to stimulate the auditory nerves electrically–this is different from a hearing aid which primarily amplify. The cochlear implant is very powerful and is usually implanted into children and adults with a severe hearing loss.
The technology for helping combat hearing loss recently has become very innovative. Recently, a new software has been produced for cochlear implants and hearing aids which can help differentiate sounds and improve speech recognition significantly. It is great to see technology being used to combat hearing loss!
Tags: cochlear implants, hearing technology, innovative technology
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