Have you ever noticed after swimming or a loud concert, your ear may have lowered in quality of hearing? Many things outside of this including colds, flus, and other illnesses can compromise your hearing quality and ability to pick up sound of different levels of frequencies.
At the Santa Clarita Hearing Center, they take any and all matters regarding hearing loss mitigation seriously to prevent you from damaging your ears and making life difficult on your end.
At the Santa Clarita Hearing Center, patients come with 3 types of hearing losses:
Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Conductive Hearing Loss, and Mixed Hearing Loss.
In realizing how these types of hearing losses are caused, it is both in and out of someone’s control. When analyzing Sensorineural Hearing Loss, hair cells in the inner ear are damaged or missing. These cells send signals toward the brain and aid it in picking up sound. Conventional hearing aids can help in hearing losses for this case. At times, partial damage has occurred and only leaves the patient partially deaf.
Sensorineural Loss can be linked to:
- Head trauma
- Illnesses
- Drugs that are toxic to hearing (ototoxicity)
- Genetics
- Malformation of the inner ear
- Exposure to loud noise
- Aging
In Conductive Hearing Loss, we see how a blockage, deformity, ruptured eardrum, or ear infections that are linked from things such as:
- Benign tumors
- Swimmer’s Ear
- Foreign object in the ear
- Fluid in the middle ear from colds
- Absence or malformation of the outer ear, ear canal, or middle ear
- Allergies
- Perforated eardrum
- Impacted ear wax
Hearing Loss can affect quality of life with a lower sense of hearing. In Conducting Hearing Loss, it is usually temporary and treated with medication or surgery. While these methods work, at times it can be permanent and thus need a hearing aid or middle ear implants are required to help regain hearing.
Be sure that precautions to your ears are being taken with serious action. Allowing music to be played directly into the ears purposely or having objects in the ears constantly can greatly impact the quality of hearing and later in life can become too late to reverse.
Santa Clarita Hearing Center was founded by Dr. Ginny Veloz, Au.D., who has worked as an audiologist and hearing doctor for over 20 years. At Santa Clarita Hearing Center, customers can expect to find the most modern hearing aid technology currently available. Offering a complete range of diagnostic hearing services, Santa Clarita Hearing Center performs comprehensive hearing evaluations, hearing aid fittings and repair. Additionally, they fit custom ear plugs and protection to treat customers’ medical hearing loss or tinnitus symptoms. With a wide range of hearing aid options to meet every budget and lifestyle, Santa Clarita Hearing Center focuses on delivering effective results with compassion, education and integrity.
23861 McBean Pkwy #D14
Valencia, CA 91355
(661) 388-4135