The ability to hear is one of life’s great luxuries. Though it is possible to live with hearing loss, I cannot deny the impact hearing and sound has on my daily activities. From listening to my professors, to the numerous interactions I have on my cell phone, sound permeates all facets of my life. Not only is sound critical to my daily activities, it can impact an organization on the economic scale.
For most of my life I worked for and with various manufacturing companies. During this time I have been exposed to industrial sounds that are often of higher intensity and or unusual frequencies (Mihailović, D., Djurić, N., Kovačević, I., & Mihailović, D., 2016, p. 1030). I can honestly say that no one manufacturer is alike, even in
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These sounds sometimes damage sensitive structures in the inner ear, which can lead to noise-induced hearing loss (Noise Induced Hearing Loss, 2017).
Hearing loss affects more than 13% of the working population (Neitzel, R. L., Swinburn, T. K., Hammer, M. S., & Eisenberg, D., 2017, p.182). To the casual observer that doesn’t seem like much, but if the hearing loss resulting from excessive noise exposure were prevented, the economic benefit would be estimated at a range of $58 billion to $152 billion annually, with a core estimate of $123 billion (Neitzel 2017, p.182). Personally I feel like that is a lot of money to be leaving on the table. Aside from the financial loss, noise is seen as an environmental stressor with serious effects on workers’ mood, attention, job satisfaction, psychological well-being, stress and performance. Regardless, researches did not find direct effects of noise on productivity in industry (Mihailović, D, 2016, p.1031)
Despite workers’ potential to adapt to noise, there are personal costs and consequences on health. There is growing evidence to suggest, that exposure to high intensity noise negatively affects both the functioning of the autonomic nervous system an individual’s mental health (Mihailović, D, 2016, p.1031). In particular, the auditory effects can include the shift of hearing threshold and deterioration of speech perception (Neitzel 2017, p.182). Furthermore, research has shown, that exposure
Anyone of any age who has highly impaired hearing loss or suffers from being deaf could have a cochlear implant. Damage to the inner ear, Aging, prolonged exposure to loud noise and diseases such as rubella (German measles) or mumps may cause wear and tear on the hairs or nerve cells in the cochlea that send sound signals to the brain. When
Noise can be very distracting especially if someone wants to study, sleep, read, do homework, and do a project or anything else. I personally have experienced noise as a distraction and I would never intentionally try to distract someone from doing what they want buy making it hard for them to focus because of my noise.
The sound of your parents voice, hearing your favorite song playing on the radio, even knowing the sound of your own voice, these are just a few sounds that sadly many of us take for granted, and unfortunately many will never get to experience. Hearing loss affects about 10% of the Global population, with 124.2 million people affected from a moderate level to a severe disability. (WHO 2008)
It has been proven that excessive exposure to a noisy environment can result in permanent hearing damage. The noise could be a result of a variety of environments such as at air shows, concerts, work, home or play. If you work in a noisy environment, you are being exposed every day for many hours! Just because your ears might not be hurting or ringing when you leave the noisy environment, there is still a negative impact on your ears due to the constant noise and its impact is cumulative.
To put it short to understanding the problem, image a time when someone might have to write an important paper that holds the key answers to some questions that a teacher or even a boss may have assigned and they wanted it done right at ten in the morning. It doesn’t seem hard to do, however, add road workers outside as they are working with heavy and loud equipment. The paper was assigned at seven in the morning right at the same time that the road workers started to work and never stop. This can be hard as some would claim that they can’t hear themselves think during all the sounds from the works, yet, there would seem to be people who are not affected by the sounds at all. The road workers and the tapping are just the same thing as it seemed to be good, but isn’t fully good for someone
A 2010 study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston found that one in five teens suffer from a hearing impairment, which is an increase of 33% from 1994 (Dignan). Earbuds and headphones have contributed to these numbers since using these at loud volumes can damage ears over time. Earbuds and headphones have caused loss of hearing, as a result, there should be a restriction on the highest volume they can go.
Earbuds are a major concern in hearing loss. Although, the real problem is not in the product, it’s in the volume. Getting a pair of earbuds for Christmas, your birthday or any other occasion is awesome, but if you don’t keep it at an appropriate volume it is dangerous. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 1.1 billion young adults and teens are globally at risk of developing major hearing loss. Also, wearing earbuds and listening to loud music is the same as the sound of motorcycles, chainsaws, and rock concerts. Earbuds are only bad for your hearing if you don’t turn the volume down.
The sound can vary in volume and tone even for the same person. It often gets louder as the person ages. With this cacophony in one’s head, you can imagine the problems it might cause. It would be difficult to sleep, to hear other sounds like conversations or television, and to concentrate on reading or other tasks.
Throughout the last half-century individuals from the medical field have built up an innovation that performs an accomplishment that is proclaimed by numerous as inexplicable: an implant which makes sound inside the ears of the hard of hearing. Cochlear implant innovation utilizes electrical driving forces to send the vibe of sound waves to the brain by living up to expectations around the harmed cochlea, making an apparent evidence of sound to a hard of hearing or deaf individual (NAD). In the event that you asked a “normal listening” individual that they thought about the innovation of the CI, they would celebrate that there is at long last a cure for the "awfulness of deafness" and would expect that the Deaf group would be energized and excited for a cure to deafness. The reaction to CIs from the Deaf group has not been positive, but instead frowned upon. The center of the development is on the progression of the human condition through innovation. It is important to consider both the potential advantages and pitfalls of rising innovations, including any moral predicaments that may emerge on their cusp.
However, just because earbuds are commonly used, doesn’t mean they are the best for hearing health if used improperly. Being cautious on the duration and volume when using earbuds can greatly impact the results of hearing health in earbud users. Earbuds are now a revolutionary item that has been introduced into this generation along with many other profound technologies, though it is not the best item when it comes to benefiting the health of hearing as it can lead to hearing loss or overall deafness. Excessive earbud use has harmful effects to the numerous amounts of people that use them on a day to day basis. That being said, there are many options doctors and companies have yet to fully (put to action) discover that can dramatically limit and perhaps can even prevent these harmful effects, such as noise-induced hearing loss, from earbud users. By permanently implanting effective solutions in the lives of earbud users, it can bring the constantly increasing rate of noise-induced hearing loss among them to a halt, resulting in a not only healthier community, but also a more placid life for earbud users. There are many solutions that can be suggested to steady the amount of all forms of hearing loss among society, but the only true way to prevent this ongoing issue lies entirely in the hands of people. It takes their own willpower to determine the direction they
One example of our hearing being affected is by noise. Everyday we live our life with many different noises coming from all over the place.Hearing loss from noise can happen to anybody at any age. Close to 24% of American adults from ages 20 - 60 have shown hearing loss from one or both ears during hearing test due to loud noises. As this starts to happen you may realize your hearing becoming more muffled.
Our hypothesis was “People who are exposed to loud music at least once everyday in day to day life will have lower hearing capacity percentages than those who are not exposed to loud music at least once daily in day to day life.” We discovered when analyzing our data that our hypothesis was correct because the hearing capacities of the exposed girls were lower than that of the unexposed girls.
Sayin, E., et al., “Sound and Safe”: The Effect of Ambient Sound on the Perceived Safety of Public Spaces, Intern. J. of Research in Marketing
Hearing loss is the most common physical disability in the whole wide world. In the United States alone, about 28 million people have some level of hearing impairment that interferes with their ability to understand normal speech and participate in conversations. Another 2 million cannot hear at all.
The noise monitoring was carried out in two zones viz. Silence and commercial zones taking two locations each for respective zones in different parts of the city of Visakhapatnam. The locations for Silence zone were ‘Sri Shanthi Ashram’ and ‘Biodiversity