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NOISE DESTROYS

NOISE DESTROYS. Tips on protecting your hearing. Noise is everywhere. At home. At Work. At work…. At play…. All sounds don’t hurt your ears…. What matters is…. HOW LOUD And HOW LONG. Overexposure to noise damages tiny nerve endings inside the ear. Damage begins in the HIGH pitch region.

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NOISE DESTROYS

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  1. NOISE DESTROYS Tips on protecting your hearing

  2. Noise is everywhere • At home

  3. At Work At work….

  4. At play…..

  5. All sounds don’t hurt your ears….. • What matters is…. • HOW LOUD • And HOW LONG

  6. Overexposure to noise damages tiny nerve endings inside the ear

  7. Damage begins in the HIGH pitch region • ABOVE the speech frequencies

  8. As the damage progresses… • It will work its way down to eventually affect the speech frequencies

  9. By the time you begin to notice the hearing loss, • You have a VERY WELL DEVELOPED hearing loss

  10. SO…….. • It sneaks up on you…you don’t know you have it until you have a lot of it!

  11. Noise induced hearing loss affects the QUALITY of the sound Rather than the LOUDNESS If you think of your ear like a stereo, it is like fiddling with the equalizer NOT like turning down the volume

  12. Turning it up may make it LOUDER • BUT… it will not make it CLEARER • Kind of like turning up the volume on a blown speaker…it will still sound bad

  13. Hearing aids help but do NOT cure • Hearing aids are amplifiers, the problem with noise induced hearing loss is not loudness but CLARITY.

  14. The KEY thing is • PROTECTION and PREVENTION

  15. May is BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH month PROTECT YOUR HEARING!!! You only have one set of ears that must last you a LIFETIME! Don’t miss out on the sounds of life!

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