Explain How Prolonged Exposure To Loud Noise Is Likely To Cause Deafness
1) Explain how prolonged exposure to loud noise is likely to cause deafness?
Sound waves enters through your ear and travels through a narrow passage called ear canal, which then leads to your ear drums. Then the ear drums vibrate from the incoming sound waves and sends these sound vibrations to your three tiny bones called malleus, incus, and stapes. When the sound vibration hits the fluid movement in the cochlea of the inner ear. An elastic partition goes through the cochlea, which starts from the beginning of the cochlea to the end. After this, it goes into two different directions, upper part and lower part. The partition is called basilar membrane. Following that, the vibrations causes the fluid to ripple a travelling wave which forms along …show more content…
If you suffer from TTS frequently do you think that the recovery time would increase or decrease?
Temporary Threshold Shifts (TTS) are temporary changes in the hearing level resulting from sound levels higher than 70-75 decibels (dB). It may occur suddenly after exposure to loud level of sound. Temporary threshold shifts results in temporary hearing loss. An example of this is listening to music in high volume with their earphones or headphones which has decibels over 70-80.
The recovery time would definitely decrease, because you’re not giving your ears enough time to rest and it would take its original exposure time to completely recover.
4) Explains the concerns that the doctors have about young people listening to music on portable devices?
The doctors say, “Young people listening to high volume noise over 85 decibels for more than an hour, without giving their ears any rest could damage their hair cells.” Doctors also say, “If these young people listen over 89 decibels they could possibly lose their hearing within 5 years, but the biggest concern is that people might lose their ability to categorise consonants under
Sound waves enters through your ear and travels through a narrow passage called ear canal, which then leads to your ear drums. Then the ear drums vibrate from the incoming sound waves and sends these sound vibrations to your three tiny bones called malleus, incus, and stapes. When the sound vibration hits the fluid movement in the cochlea of the inner ear. An elastic partition goes through the cochlea, which starts from the beginning of the cochlea to the end. After this, it goes into two different directions, upper part and lower part. The partition is called basilar membrane. Following that, the vibrations causes the fluid to ripple a travelling wave which forms along …show more content…
If you suffer from TTS frequently do you think that the recovery time would increase or decrease?
Temporary Threshold Shifts (TTS) are temporary changes in the hearing level resulting from sound levels higher than 70-75 decibels (dB). It may occur suddenly after exposure to loud level of sound. Temporary threshold shifts results in temporary hearing loss. An example of this is listening to music in high volume with their earphones or headphones which has decibels over 70-80.
The recovery time would definitely decrease, because you’re not giving your ears enough time to rest and it would take its original exposure time to completely recover.
4) Explains the concerns that the doctors have about young people listening to music on portable devices?
The doctors say, “Young people listening to high volume noise over 85 decibels for more than an hour, without giving their ears any rest could damage their hair cells.” Doctors also say, “If these young people listen over 89 decibels they could possibly lose their hearing within 5 years, but the biggest concern is that people might lose their ability to categorise consonants under