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How Your Hearing Works
Your ears are complex organs
that gather and process vibrating
sound waves in the air around
you, transferring them into
electrical signals that your brain
processes as sound. When just
one part of your hearing is not
working properly, the system
breaks down in ways that cause hearing loss. To fully understand
hearing loss, you have to first understand how hearing normally
works.
The outer ear, also called the pinna, gathers sound waves and
funnels them into your ear canal, which is the small portion of
your ear going in toward your head. When the sound reaches the
eardrum, which is a tightly stretched membrane at the end of the
ear canal, they cause it to vibrate at the frequency of the sound.
On the other side of the ear drum, you’ll find three tiny bones, all
attached to each other. These make up your middle ear. The first
bone is attached to the ear drum and the last is attached to the
inner ear, where you’ll find your vestibular tubes and cochlea. As
the bones in your middle ear move with the sound waves, they
pump against your cochlea in your inner ear, causing the fluid
inside it to move in waves.
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The tiny hair cells inside the cochlea move with the waves and,
with each movement, transmit an electrical signal through the
auditory nerve to your brain. Your brain gathers and puts
together all of the information from hair cells and interprets it as
sound.
People can have hearing problems at any of the stages of the
process, with some people suffering from nerve damages and
others having blockages in the ear canal that cause the eardrum
to not vibrate much. An audioprosthologist can evaluate your
hearing and determine if it’s working properly.
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